Lottso pics of my little coop

[Brian]

Well planned and well done.

 

[RockinCircleC]

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Bore? Hardly! This post is one of the reasons I joined this board. We now know what gold standard we have to live up to when we build our chicken coop! I see MANY features I want ours to have, with a couple of very minor tweaks that we'll make for the soggy PNW weather and to accommodate maybe a couple more birds than it seems yours does.

BRAVO!

 

[seminolewind]

Very nice! I like your poop tray. I wish I would have thought of that in my smaller coop. Very nice!

 

[skatcatla]

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Yeah, it's real easy to clean that way and the birds can't get loose if I only wanted to clean the pit and leave them in the coop.

You are kidding about the "recipe" aren't you?

Actually I wasn't. I mean, I assume that you just tear a hole in the bread and fry an egg in the middle of it, but do you use butter or oil? And, do you flip it over and cook both sides? Silly questions I know but I honestly wasn't sure. :-D

 

[pacanis]

Sorry. The smiley had me thinking you were.

I don't have a round cookie cutter, so I take an appropriate sized glass and use it to cut a hole in a piece of bread by twisting the open end while the bread is on a cutting board.
Then I get some butter melting in a pan, like I do for a grilled cheese sandwich.
Then I lay the bread and the "hole" in the pan and coat both sides with the melted butter real quick. I'm not trying to toast it here.
Then after both sides are coated with butter I crack the egg in the hole and let it cook, flipping once, like a grilled cheese sandwich.
You can see how things are coming along by checking the "hole" on when to flip. And I don't use a lid.

Sometimes I cook them hard and sometimes I cook them soft and use the hole piece to sop the yolk with.

Seeing this being made and reserching what was being cooked was IMO, the best part of "V for Vendetta"

Enjoy!

 

[Moselle]

Very nice! Do you think the low diagonal vents help keep the bedding drier than having only high vents? If so, I may incorporate that idea into my coop plan.

Oh, one other thing - the house is 4' tall, how high off the ground is it?

 

[pacanis]

Thanks Moselle.

Yes I do. In the summer as the hot air is rising through the roof vent, or in the winter as the coop is losing heat from the birds, The airflow upward would pull from those two low vents. It only stands to reason that some air must be passing across the bedding. It's always bone dry in the coop. I used to do HVAC work, BTW, so I always keep in mind where the air is coming from as other air is being moved out.
Their being diagonal may mean nothing at all, but on the one end I already had the chicken door, so in the droppings pit wall was the logical place for the one vent. And I didn't want the vent on the other end to be directly across from where I was going to put their waterer. Maybe that's reading too much into things, but it made sense at the time

The coop is exactly the the distance off the ground as the length of some leftover 2x4s I had from another project

Without measuring I'd have to say about 20". So when I fence that part in they can get underneath the coop when it's raining. Though it doesn't appear rain seems to bother them much...

 

[Moselle]

Thanks - you've been very helpful!

 

[johnsmb]

RockinCircleC - just wondering what tweaks you would make to this coop design for the soggy NW! I just moved to the soggy NW and haven't had to deal with chickens in the rain yet - but I think I want to mimic this design since we will be moving soon, and this looks relatively portable. thanks

 

[RockinCircleC]

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Number one thing that is usually is mandatory to help with runoff control is gutters and downspouts to divert water AWAY. We have a shed here that I think we may relocate to a different spot on our property and then renovate it into a chicken coop with attached run. It's currently located in a spot where getting electricity isn't easily made available to it, as well as a fresh water source. Plus, there is usually a skunk family living under it. I will start a separate thread and post pictures and ideas and requests for more brainstorming at a later time so I don't hijack this thread.