My Wichita Cabin Coop

[~KH~]

We actually finished the coop in May, but I just got my chicks this Tuesday. I thought I'd post a few pics of the construction and the finished coop. My last coop was a tractor design, so this construction was a lot different and it's built to never move! I found that looking at how others built their coops was very helpful pre-construction, so I thought I'd share

 

[rjohns39]

Very Nice...

 

[WatWasIThinking!!!]

Very Nice!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Beautiful. I love the Wichita Cabin Coops!

 

[sjolie]

I'm interested in building a coop based on the Wichita Cabin design, but have a question about roofing material. I've seen some that use "clear" roofing material and wondering how that affects heat in the coop. I'm in Chicago, so it seems like it might be good for warming the coop in winter, but would it get too hot in the summer. There are trees around where I'm planning to build it, so maybe that would help in the summer.

Thoughts?

 

[~KH~]

I'm interested in building a coop based on the Wichita Cabin design, but have a question about roofing material. I've seen some that use "clear" roofing material and wondering how that affects heat in the coop. I'm in Chicago, so it seems like it might be good for warming the coop in winter, but would it get too hot in the summer. There are trees around where I'm planning to build it, so maybe that would help in the summer.

Thoughts?

I personally wouldn't use a clear material just because of the heat buildup potential. And depending on how windy it is where you are, I might also use wood sheathing underneath the roofing material. Where we are currently, the wind never gets bad (and it's never really cold), so we just used the poly corrugated roofing material w/o any sub-roofing material under it. When I was in Idaho (because of the wind and weather), I had wood underneath the corrugated roofing.