New Addition in the works!

[Ninjasquirrel]

When we first built our coop for our 8 girls two years ago we didnt know as much as we do now. We had decided to get new birds but there was one problem...a lot of them turned out to be boys. This presented a few problems: how to keep the males seperate to reach maturity without caponizing; allowing the chicks to be seen and untouched to add the new hens to the coop; space we were already severely lacking; and keeping them from roosting on the nesting boxes.
Here's our old coop:

And here is the design for the addition:

The addition will have a infirmary/brooder/male coop on the bottom. Essentially a coop that is not always in use. We will add the run later. The top half will have a slanted roof that will lift up on the end for nest box access. The current egg door will be removed completely. We will be doubling our square footage in the top coop. This picture includes the first step. Here is where we are now:

Roosting bars and a floor have been installed in the lower coop. We have the walls and the upper floor cut but since our current birds are in occupancy we can not install everything until we can finish it all in one day. Today we plan to install laminate flooring on both floors and cut holes for ventilation, clean out doors on the walls and putting a last coat of paint on them. We hope to have the addition completed by this weekend. The run will be installed once it is complete.

 

[casportpony]

Looking good!

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Looking good!

Thank you! It should be far more impressive looking once the walls are attached. We just quit for the evening but we got clean out doors and vents cut on the north wall. We still cant attach it yet. We are working on it at least 2 hours a day which isnt much but the best we can do until the weekend

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Worked on it for a good six hours today until a storm started rolling in. Got electrical done.

Below imfirmary coop is still incomplete.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Now that it stopped raining as much and we are all cleaned up I was able to take a pic of the infirmary coop below. It's missing the wall behind the roosts as yiu can see from the previous post. Otherwise it is fully functioning. You cant see our ventilation holes from the pic but I assure you they are there. We purchased the lumber to add the infimary run today. Hopefully getting this all done this weekend; fingers crossed!

 

[aart]

Now that it stopped raining as much

We are getting it here now...
....nice ThunderRumbler, but I'm not trying to do any outside projects.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

We are getting it here now...
....nice ThunderRumbler, but I'm not trying to do any outside projects.

It rained really hard for about 15 minutes or so before it petered out. No hail here but others reported hail. Our gutters on the south side of the house overflowed and a little water got in the garage but thats about it. Now our older hens are looking for tasty worms

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Scorcher today. We worked as long as we could before it got too hot. Roof is now fully attached. New nesting boxes are not in yet but they have access to the old ones until we can borrow our dad's brad nailer. Bottom is fully functional but we didnt want to put the babies out today due to the heat. It got to 88 today, but it felt a lot hotter with the sun beaming down on us. Hopefully tomorrow isnt as hot so we can get to work on the run

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Another hot day. Temps close to 90. But we got the run built and the new chicks are in their temp coop with a temp run. Run is "built" but no wire around it yet

 

[ChickForLife]

Wow, looks nice!