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[AmericanKraut]

I finally decided on my first coop for spring.

Put some hardware cloth all around and for a run beneath. What chicken doesn't want a slide? Some B-Ball?

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Ok, I guess my kids would get jealous. Back to slapping some old plywood together.

 

[duluthralphie]

I finally decided on my first coop for spring.

Put some hardware cloth all around and for a run beneath. What chicken doesn't want a slide? Some B-Ball?

.

Ok, I guess my kids would get jealous. Back to slapping some old plywood together.

LOL, buy me one of them too, maybe they will give you a group discount. After you pay for them feel free to come out and set it up for me too....roflmbo




My wife has just informed me I want to go to Duluth next weekend. I am acting really excited about getting to see the grandkids, little does she know it is a new rooster that excites me!

 

[Rhetts]

I finally decided on my first coop for spring.

Put some hardware cloth all around and for a run beneath. What chicken doesn't want a slide? Some B-Ball?

.

Ok, I guess my kids would get jealous. Back to slapping some old plywood together.

That is too funny!! I Love it!

 

[duluthralphie]

That is too funny!! I Love it!

Actually I think that is a goose house.

Can you imagine what that slide would look like 50 slimy dirty wet geese have slid down it?

 

[Rhetts]

Actually I think that is a goose house.

Can you imagine what that slide would look like 50 slimy dirty wet geese have slid down it?

If you put a pool for them to land into at the bottom of the slide ohh that would be awesome!!!

 

[AmericanKraut]

LOL Rhetts! The pool would be a great option! Oh, the slide you're right. It'd be a poop slide!

duluthralphie, who are you kidding, buying it? I was planning on you all coming to help me build it!

 

[duluthralphie]

LOL Rhetts! The pool would be a great option! Oh, the slide you're right. It'd be a poop slide!

duluthralphie, who are you kidding, buying it? I was planning on you all coming to help me build it!

Heck, why not everyone come here to build it. I am close to a Menard's and it is a lot shorter drive for everyone who matters. (me)...rofl..


I have a question, do any of you use the coops where you do not have to go inside to collect eggs?

The ones where a person just opens a lid and reaches into the nest box. I have a neighbor, recently moved in, that I have never met. I notice he/she has lots of chickens RSL , I think. The coops are blocky with a boot, sort of like Angle Inlet on our map looks coming out the back. How do you keep eggs from freezing right away with cold air on three sides of them?

It appears he may sell the coops as he has about 6-8 just sitting in a row not being used too.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have started a thread for us breeders of mutts. We all share something here, Minnesota with that is common we have a great thread.

I am hoping to get that with others that want to experiment and breed mutts. I am not a show bird person and never will be.

I do know I want to breed for smaller or no comb birds, I want bigger legs in relationship to breasts.

And of course I want lots of Jumbo colored eggs..

Anyways this is the thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-dubious-parentage-thread-mutts#post_14716137

I would love to have you join me there and talk up our mutts, of course, we will have to stay here and talk about them too,

thanks.

 

[Rhetts]

My coop is 12x16 rectangle. You walk into a small entry way type thing that I keep the feed and what not that is separated from the coop. I also have access door/panels on the back of the nest boxes that open from that entry way area so I don't need to go into the coop to get the eggs if I don't want to. I go outside about 3 times a day to get eggs before they freeze. I also bring water out for the other birds (geese, ducks, turkeys) so popping into the coop for eggs just happens too.

 

[duluthralphie]

My coop is 12x16 rectangle. You walk into a small entry way type thing that I keep the feed and what not that is separated from the coop. I also have access door/panels on the back of the nest boxes that open from that entry way area so I don't need to go into the coop to get the eggs if I don't want to. I go outside about 3 times a day to get eggs before they freeze. I also bring water out for the other birds (geese, ducks, turkeys) so popping into the coop for eggs just happens too.

Yours is sort of like mine, I have a small feed room in front of and separate from the birds. I have to enter the bird area to get egg, which is no problem unless I trip and fall at which time my birds would devour me.

I use a heated fount so I only have to change water every couple days, I have a heated fount outside too. I mainly go into the coop to let the birds out and lock them up collecting eggs at the same time. I have thought about an timed hen door, but I kind of like the idea of being forced to go outside and open the coop or I would sit on my butt all day. I know me.

This guys coop has a foot x foot box running the whole length of the coop and you open the "box" from the outside, Which is nice but I would worry about the boxes being too cold in winter and too hot in summer not being a part of the main coop air flow.

I know I am explaining it poorly. sorry for that.