- Apr 15, 2010
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My dad is building this for me, and he just moved it to my yard today. He was building at the neighbors and bought it over with a tractor
You can see in some photos the door leaning against the other building that will be used on the coop. We're putting hardware cloth on the inside to keep the chickens from pecking, and to prevent anything from getting in if the glass breaks.
He is building a pop door, and also the windows will have flaps for me to close if I need to, but I shouldn't have to too very often. I hope.
The chickens have a skylight above the door. I don't know what made him decide to build that there, but he did! I am pretty sure he's building a poop board and roosts but I'm not sure. If not I'll just throw the roosts up there and use milk crates for nesting boxes.
The only thing I'm unsure of how to do myself is attaching the hardware cloth around the rafters. I was confused about that in the coop I had been working on as well. It might be easier to attach the hardware cloth to the outside and nail it to the roof, but then I worry about leaks.
Here are the pictures. I'll update as it gets completed.
There's a bit of a gap where the roof and rafters meet I'll have to seal up somehow...
You can see in some photos the door leaning against the other building that will be used on the coop. We're putting hardware cloth on the inside to keep the chickens from pecking, and to prevent anything from getting in if the glass breaks.
He is building a pop door, and also the windows will have flaps for me to close if I need to, but I shouldn't have to too very often. I hope.
The chickens have a skylight above the door. I don't know what made him decide to build that there, but he did! I am pretty sure he's building a poop board and roosts but I'm not sure. If not I'll just throw the roosts up there and use milk crates for nesting boxes.
The only thing I'm unsure of how to do myself is attaching the hardware cloth around the rafters. I was confused about that in the coop I had been working on as well. It might be easier to attach the hardware cloth to the outside and nail it to the roof, but then I worry about leaks.
Here are the pictures. I'll update as it gets completed.
There's a bit of a gap where the roof and rafters meet I'll have to seal up somehow...