I am so excited!!!! My friend came over today and her and her husband helped build the coop! He is quite "crafty" that way!! I do still have some stuff to do- lighting, and fence in an area for them to be "out of the coop".
We have a huge pole barn- 32x40. So we built a large box (enough for all our 17 chicks) in one of the corners and will chicken wire an area about 15feet by 8ft for their daily stretching and hanging out.
We get a ton of snow her in Northern Michigan, so I am thrilled to have this! I put the babies in there today (half our flock are abut 8 weeks) and they all went up and perched right away! Whoot....
ETA- we used ALL recycled doors and wood. We are building an "outside" area inside the pool barn for the chickens in the winter time so they can still have lots of DAY space to roam.
We put the coop near our main door- because we are going to chicken wire a larger area so I can get in and out of the barn in the winter time.
We had an old apple tree latter that we cut down for perching!
I got 3 sets of shelves from a garage sale for $10 total- We screwed them into a side wall- perfect nesting boxes!
My Partridge Rocks Roo- he is 8 weeks. He like the nest boxes! lol...
We have a huge pole barn- 32x40. So we built a large box (enough for all our 17 chicks) in one of the corners and will chicken wire an area about 15feet by 8ft for their daily stretching and hanging out.
We get a ton of snow her in Northern Michigan, so I am thrilled to have this! I put the babies in there today (half our flock are abut 8 weeks) and they all went up and perched right away! Whoot....
ETA- we used ALL recycled doors and wood. We are building an "outside" area inside the pool barn for the chickens in the winter time so they can still have lots of DAY space to roam.
We put the coop near our main door- because we are going to chicken wire a larger area so I can get in and out of the barn in the winter time.
We had an old apple tree latter that we cut down for perching!
I got 3 sets of shelves from a garage sale for $10 total- We screwed them into a side wall- perfect nesting boxes!
My Partridge Rocks Roo- he is 8 weeks. He like the nest boxes! lol...
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