Tab's chicken obsession :
If I set up my coop as a greenhouse too, the chickens would say "Yippee a buffet!"
I intend to put the shelves up high where they can't jump to. I figure maybe eight or so trays near the top. I'll post pics when I do. As soon at HD has some cull lumber suitable for the shelves.
Tabs - the panels are $40 for two at TSC and I used left over chicken wire for the run. Since your using it as a green house you just need to have chicken wire for the plastic support. Two panels make an 9x8 greenhouse and you wouldn't need to put it on blocks cuz a gravel floor would be fine. The ply wood floor was the most expensive for the coop. The run much cheaper, maybe less than $100.00 . Check your chicken friends and ask if they have some left over chicken wire laying around. I got some hardware cloth from a friend and even had enough to surround my roses. Plus you'd only need one door so that would be cheaper too. I used alot of "cull" lumber 2x3's or 2x4's from HD. .51 cents a piece. I stop in often to see what they have and save up til I get enough. Right now I've got enough pieces of plywood to do the roof on my 8x24 run. Next year I buy the roofing material. Just earmark you egg money for the green house. You know me, I've sold you chicks for cheap so no worries there unless you want Green Fire birds and I haven't ordered mine yet.
Listen folks, I've got five chicks I really don't want to deal with this winter. Plus I may take a trip to AL in December so if you want to come and get them they're yours. A couple of Dels and an EE and two I'm not sure of. I know I'll get in trouble for giving chicks away but such is life. See if I keep them it means setting up the pen in the back room again and it gets messy and quite frankly I just don't want to clean the mess up again. Not to mention they'll be there for a few months. Might even be laying by late winter which means I gotta set up a nest box. I only got them cuz of the darn broody hen. I'm just to old to want to deal with it.
Love ya,
Rancher
If I set up my coop as a greenhouse too, the chickens would say "Yippee a buffet!"
I intend to put the shelves up high where they can't jump to. I figure maybe eight or so trays near the top. I'll post pics when I do. As soon at HD has some cull lumber suitable for the shelves.
Tabs - the panels are $40 for two at TSC and I used left over chicken wire for the run. Since your using it as a green house you just need to have chicken wire for the plastic support. Two panels make an 9x8 greenhouse and you wouldn't need to put it on blocks cuz a gravel floor would be fine. The ply wood floor was the most expensive for the coop. The run much cheaper, maybe less than $100.00 . Check your chicken friends and ask if they have some left over chicken wire laying around. I got some hardware cloth from a friend and even had enough to surround my roses. Plus you'd only need one door so that would be cheaper too. I used alot of "cull" lumber 2x3's or 2x4's from HD. .51 cents a piece. I stop in often to see what they have and save up til I get enough. Right now I've got enough pieces of plywood to do the roof on my 8x24 run. Next year I buy the roofing material. Just earmark you egg money for the green house. You know me, I've sold you chicks for cheap so no worries there unless you want Green Fire birds and I haven't ordered mine yet.
Listen folks, I've got five chicks I really don't want to deal with this winter. Plus I may take a trip to AL in December so if you want to come and get them they're yours. A couple of Dels and an EE and two I'm not sure of. I know I'll get in trouble for giving chicks away but such is life. See if I keep them it means setting up the pen in the back room again and it gets messy and quite frankly I just don't want to clean the mess up again. Not to mention they'll be there for a few months. Might even be laying by late winter which means I gotta set up a nest box. I only got them cuz of the darn broody hen. I'm just to old to want to deal with it.
Love ya,
Rancher
