My new coop project

[tammyd57]

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I started with a published planfor a 5' x 5' section portable coop. Then I just enlarged the sections to 8' x 8'. I don't know about gabled roofs. I always use shed type roof, just easier. The plans I started with are here:
http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/plhouse1.pdf

 

[sewchick]

What a great find!!!! I never find stuff like that. $200.00 is excellent for the amount of lumber.

 

[tammyd57]

Update!

It's roofed and painted now and I have pics!
This is going to be a long project, sorry to anyone waiting impatiently for updates and pics. DH & I are both disabled, so we have to wait until DB can come over to help us with it. But we've managed to do a lot of it ourselves.
4 days after whitewashing the inside of the storage room it rained. This was before the outside got painted (we did that just today) and the wet wood leached a lot of brown tanins into the whitewash. We'll have to re-do it now that the outside is sealed.

This picture shows the tin roofing and how shiny it still is. I got that for free from a nice man on Freecycle.
Also shows how the inside dividers & door frames are built.

So we painted the outside with the paint I picked out. Right now it looks kinda pinky-redish-tomato-ie & sticks out like a sore thumb. But it is breezy and dusty so much, that I figure it will only take about a week for the color to tone down to something more like barn or brick red.
The front:

The back:

And the Phantom that DH HAD to leave unpainted:

A little more work inside to put up the chicken wire walls between rooms, a little work on the outside to make the flaps that fold down stand out like awnings...............couple pop doors..............Add chickens!

 

[Omran]

That is a great work, I love your new coop

 

[IdealisticRoo]

I love this coop! Please post more pictures when you have chickens in it or even just when you add roosts and boxes!


Wow! I will never look at fireworks stands the same again! Already my beady eyes ogle camper trailers, envisioning coops, not fireworks stands too!

 

[tammyd57]

I'm sorry to those who are watching this thread for not having more progress or pictures to post. I know it's taking a long time, but I knew from the first that it would. DH & I are both disabled and most of the physical work is being done by my brother, so I have to wait until he can come over and do more work on it. Before you start thinking what a nice brother, I had to give him my hot tub in trade for the work LOL
He has put up the chicken wire walls inside, But it's hard to see the wire in the pictures, it looks just like the pictures I already posted before the wire was up. I will be posting more as soon as more is done. I think he's going to be putting the wire on the inside doors and putting up some roosts next week (heh heh his wife owns him on the weekends, I get him during the week).


IdealisticRoo: I looked through Craigslist for months looking for a camping type trailer that someone wanted to give away because it was no longer camping worthy. I wanted to get a couple of them and use for coops. It's surprising how many I found, but couldn't get them to my house for one reason or another. One was because it had no tires and had tandem axles so I would have had to buy 4 tires to get it home (I couldn't justify that when my truck needs two tires already). A couple I didn't get because they were just too big, I have a big 4 wheel drive truck, but I don't want to haul a 30 foot camping trailer 90 miles down a steep and winding 1 lane road, lol. So I had about given up and started drawing plans to build a new coop. That's when I saw the ad for the fireworks stand. When I looked at the picture it looked so much like the plans I drew up it was amazing. So, of course I had to buy it!

 

[tammyd57]

Finally got some more work done. Just in time too! I have 18 eggs in the incubator ready to hatch this weekend, and the brooder room in the new coop wasn't even started yet. So, brother came over and built in the cupboard for the two brooders to fit inside. (You can see one of the bins I use for a brooder underneath the cupboard). Finished the two inside doors. Cut a pop door and framed it, need to make the door itself still. But it's ready for the babies now. When they get too big for the brooders, they can go right on the floor in that room. The other two rooms will get worked on as brother has time.

 

[Eagle2026]

LOOKIN GREAT!!!!

I could sure use that size coop, no dought about it!!!
Mike

 

[tammyd57]

So now half of the coop is finished, the other half almost finished.
Here are the newest arrivals enjoying the brooder room floor.

 

[johnwhite]

Cool project