Hello to everyone here at BYC, what fun site, and thank you for being here as our guide in getting started.
My wife and I are "NEW EGGS" and built our first chicken coop, got 4 chicks, 1 Astra White and 3 Rhode Island Reds, kept them in the brooder while fuzzy, put them out in the sun when possible, got the coop done and moved them out to their new home last week.
They're about 5 1/2 weeks old now. We built the coop with scrap wood, framed it up with ruff cut 2x4's from old granite shipping crates, then covered it with 1/2 inch cedar fencing, then tar papered it & finished it off with tongue & groove cedar outer layer that had come out of a house remodel. The coop floor is also tongue & groove covered with a precision cut piece of vinyl that easily slides out for quick cleaning, and here it is. You could probably park a truck on top of it, but that's what I had to work with, not being much of a carpenter it seems to have turned out OK, the chickens sure seem to like it.
Sure was a lot of work for 4 scrawny little measly birds,
but you gotta love em!
My wife and I are "NEW EGGS" and built our first chicken coop, got 4 chicks, 1 Astra White and 3 Rhode Island Reds, kept them in the brooder while fuzzy, put them out in the sun when possible, got the coop done and moved them out to their new home last week.
They're about 5 1/2 weeks old now. We built the coop with scrap wood, framed it up with ruff cut 2x4's from old granite shipping crates, then covered it with 1/2 inch cedar fencing, then tar papered it & finished it off with tongue & groove cedar outer layer that had come out of a house remodel. The coop floor is also tongue & groove covered with a precision cut piece of vinyl that easily slides out for quick cleaning, and here it is. You could probably park a truck on top of it, but that's what I had to work with, not being much of a carpenter it seems to have turned out OK, the chickens sure seem to like it.
Sure was a lot of work for 4 scrawny little measly birds,
but you gotta love em!
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and Welcome To BYC! Nice coop!
