My soon to be camper coop

[sheila3935]

A friend of ours gave us a camper. It is 24x8. I am going to convert it into a chicken coop. It needs work. One part of the roof has a leak and I have to gut it out, but by summer I hope to have it finished. It has a working air conditioner/heater on the roof so if it gets too hot we can use it some. I am going to park in under the big tree we have in the chicken yardI want to replace the flooring as right now it has carpet. That wont work

I am thinking of putting harware cloth down before adding the new flooring to keep out any mice. Anyone have any suggestions for that? Here it is

 

[SportTees]

Thats going to be one nice chicken Mansion

 

[SteveBaz]

What a project I will be watching for your progress.

Yes the hardware cloth on the floor will keep all critters out. You could for sure nail it down and float a linolium floor over the top of that. However, mice get in anywhere not just floors holes. The roof on one of those units is hard to find the leak and you may want to just put a rubberized paint over the entire roof. Best of luck to you.

 

[sheila3935]

We have at our local hardware store a thing called elasticote which is for mobile homes that you paint on. I was thinking this for the sealant. I still have to get it here which is at my friends farm in another city about 35 miles away, but my son is going to haul it up here for us. Then comes the gutting out. I am also thinking of the overhead bed part opening it up and building onto that. Cant wait to get it here and start working on it. I will post pictures along the way. Hopefully by summer or at least mid summer I can have it done. My darling hubby built me one but he is carpentry challenged and it is not the strongest coop, so now with this they will have a better coop. Also I will be doing most of the remodel myself. I dont trust him to do it the way I want it.

It has an overhead vent but I was wondering about additional ventilation. If you have ideas on that let me know I am open to all suggestions. I will be putting hardware cloth over all the windows and vents.

 

[kuntrygirl]

You are soooooooo lucky !!!

 

[wekiva bird]

It will make a great coop. We are doing ours now just put in 3 rafters , 2 sheets of plywood ,new rubber roof on half of it so far.

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

WOW!

 

[jerryb]

hey, its already got a pop door!

 

[EweSheep]

Awesome!

Sheila, once you get it done, I would love to come and see it!

 

[sheila3935]

Awesome!

Sheila, once you get it done, I would love to come and see it!

Robin I would love for you to come over. Hopefully by mid summer. My plans have been slowed as my Mom is not doing very well and us kids are taking turns going to her house to take care of her. She is 81 years old and very frail. So I am hoping between work and that I will have time to work on it at least one of my days off a week.