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NikonD2xer said:
@duluthralphie I over did my coop. There is no reason you could not make it lighter and or smaller other than a higher risk of something happening during a wind event. You could use 2 x 6 or even 2 x 4 for the base and single board where i doubled everything up, especially if you had the back at least partly open to allow wind to escape or you anchor it down somehow.

I know mine has withstood 60 mph winds on the open side and didn't budge.
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Being out in the open as we are, the wind is probably the biggest consideration. If I have an opening of any kind on small coops, it is to the east, which is where the least amount of wind and precipitation comes from. I had PVC framed tractors I used up until last fall. We dismantled them all though. I would have to stake them down with those corkscrew tie outs you can use for dogs. If I didn't they would become airborne. They had been lifted more than once over a 5 foot fence, so I gave up on them. They were lightweight and easy to move if you had them screwed or glued together, but I didn't like that idea, I like making things more difficult for myself, apparently.

I still want to build something exactly like your hoop, but just have so many other projects that that one gets knocked back. I think I will have to go and get the panels and just do it though because I have some idiot juvie cockerels that need to go out in the pasture that just has a small coop in it that won't be big enough for all of them. I had originally thought I would use 4X6s for the base on mine, but then went to the 4X4s instead.
 
scandiafowl said:
She also looks like Gilda and Goldie, my two Red Links.
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Cluckies said:
Is she a gold comet? she looks like my Fi.
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I dont know what she is, but I have always assumed she is some variety of sexlink hybrid. My aunt gave her to me as a house warming gift this spring when she was 3 months old. Now she is 7 or so and laying a dark brown but smallish egg every day. Came from a TSC chick bin
 
Minniechickmama said:
Being out in the open as we are, the wind is probably the biggest consideration. If I have an opening of any kind on small coops, it is to the east, which is where the least amount of wind and precipitation comes from. I had PVC framed tractors I used up until last fall. We dismantled them all though. I would have to stake them down with those corkscrew tie outs you can use for dogs. If I didn't they would become airborne. They had been lifted more than once over a 5 foot fence, so I gave up on them. They were lightweight and easy to move if you had them screwed or glued together, but I didn't like that idea, I like making things more difficult for myself, apparently.

I still want to build something exactly like your hoop, but just have so many other projects that that one gets knocked back. I think I will have to go and get the panels and just do it though because I have some idiot juvie cockerels that need to go out in the pasture that just has a small coop in it that won't be big enough for all of them. I had originally thought I would use 4X6s for the base on mine, but then went to the 4X4s instead.
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I am thinking we need a "hoop building class day".

I will volunteer for it to be here at my place. Each participant needs to supply 3 hog panels and 1/2 of any lumber/timber required, plus an enrollment fee of $200.

We will grade the hoops as a class. The hoops will be left here and I will dispose of them in an appropriate manner.



I will supply the liquid refreshments, if you like Mike's lemonade.
 
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I've built two hoop coops and love how easy they come together! After being used for two years by some of the Icelandics chickens, the bigger hoop coop is now my tomato greenhouse. I've always had a hard time getting tomatoes from my plant here because of the lack of growing/warm season - but the hoop house is working great!

The first one I built is three cattle panels long covered by hardware wire on the bottom half and chicken wire on the top and of course then layered with a good tarp. Open ends of welded wire/hardware cloth. Winter time I used ground cover hay bales stacked up with just a piece of plywood on top (inside) - it worked well.

The smaller hoop coop has plywood ends. This one I use as a grow out pen for chicks in the spring through the summer.
 

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