new coop begun-two years later and we're still working on it

[mightieskeeper]

Did you paint your coop this summer? It is the coolest building!

 

[Henrietta23]

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Thanks! No, we never did. Our summer went from wet and cold for days on end, literally 6 days out of 7 we had rain and the wood never dried out. Then August was beastly hot. It may happen this fall. I'll post pictures when anything new happens!

 

[Henrietta23]

Two years later and I finally got some stain on it! At the end of this month it will have new residents: Two Oberhasli/Saanen kids. We're building them their own stall on one side. The ducks will move back out to their "complex". The coop has been renamed the Penta-Barn.

 

[bantyshanty]

WOW!!! I have nothing bright or useful to say about it, but -A- it's awesome & unique, as you know & -B- must have required some interesting math calculations most people haven't done before

 

[Henrietta23]

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Thanks.DH did the math but I think there were a lot of clues in the plans. We are really happy with it. It does have some issues since the walls are not plumb with this design. It makes doors hang funny. And it no longer seems quite so big as it did. It's got 19 chickens and 7 ducks in it. They're not crowded by any means though. The ducks are going back out to their own space so we will be able to create room for the new goats.

 

[PineappleMama]

We did the starplate thing too, but as an aviary around the coop... just finished it this week and posted pics.

Yours looks awesome, well worth all the work.

 

[Henrietta23]

Cool, I'll have to go look for the pics.
DH has done the ridges of the roof and it really looks like a building now instead of a weird shack! We're getting trim paint after dinner.

 

[12henfun]

how much did this end up costing?

 

[Henrietta23]

I'm afraid we haven't kept track. No more than a couple of hundred anyway. The plates and plans were free. They were sent to DH's school back in the 80s by the State of CT for some reason. They sat around unused and were going to be thrown away. So the money was in the wood, the roofing and the paint. Doors and windows were salvaged or Freecycled. The cinder blocks it sits on were lying around our yard.