My Cull Wood Coop

[sweet_peeps]

What a great job and what a nice touch having a tile roof!

Are you allowed to shoot at or near the coyotes to scare them away?

 

[AHappychick]

nice coop and cactus! you must be in AZ

 

[Sock Puppet]

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They are considered varmin, so you can shoot them all year long as long as you have a hunting license

Which is not hard to get.

 

[Kev in K-Town]

Great job!!! I actually just purchased a load of cull lumber from Home Depot a few weeks ago myself for $40.00 It included 76 2x8x8's, and about 20 2x4x10's and a few 4x4x8 treated posts. Sure some of it is kinda warped, but hey, chickens don't care about bent wood. I have been choming at the bit to see what kind of coop I could make with it. You have given me inspiration!!!

 

[sweet_peeps]

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They are considered varmin, so you can shoot them all year long as long as you have a hunting license

Which is not hard to get.

Good deal!~ Thanks~

 

[Their Other Mother]

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Sorry, I can't help it: I do speak Spanish, so to be grammatically correct it should be "Casa del Pollo" instead of "Casa de la Pollo," and actually sounds a bit smoother that way anyhow. Great coop, by the way; I'm envious of your creativity. My chickies will be here in mid-April and I'm still looking at plans, haven't started building yet - hope to come up with something my girls will love as well as yours love the home you provided!

Thanks for the correction... I like it better too!

 

[soonerdog]

Your coop is wonderful. The cactus growing in your yard is very cool too! Never seen a tree size catcus out here on the east coast.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

That is awesome!!

 

[Their Other Mother]

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Yes, that's one of my girls tryin' to hog the camera! I have 18 assorted chickens, White Leghorns, Black Austrolorps, and some mutt barred rock x leghorn and an EE roster.

That was one of my unforseen mistakes. The roof should have had more of an overhang on the ends to accomedate one more row of tile. I didn't have a tile cutter to cut off the "Up" part of the tile and fudge everything together so that option was out too. I probabley should put chicken wire along there but that would involve taking off the tile, stapling down the wire and resetting the tile and I don't have the energy for that right now. The opening is smaller than it lookes in the picture and the chickens are even too big to get out there. Small birds do enter there and eat chicken feed though. As far as preditors, any thing that would harm the birds would not be able to access them via that opening.

 

[abluechipstock]

AWESOME