My dad has built our coop for us, based on my suggestions (for the most part
) . He progressed quite quickly, I thought. This is a 4x8 coop roughly based on the Purina free plans. For ventilation, we've got a ~2-inch gap between the roof and the siding, which we plan to staple hardware cloth to, and there are three windows, which I wish were a tad bigger but oh well. The nest boxes are externally mounted, but I'm thinking they might not be deep enough. We are getting large chickens - Welsummers and Wyandottes. The run will be attached to the back of this, 10x10. Anyways, here it is:
This end faces our yard and the entire side opens up and the biggest window is on this side.
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The inside...pardon all the junk.
The roosts.
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The pop-door (which my dad insists on calling the poop door...)
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Another window and the nest boxes.
This end faces our yard and the entire side opens up and the biggest window is on this side.
The inside...pardon all the junk.
The roosts.
The pop-door (which my dad insists on calling the poop door...)
Another window and the nest boxes.
) that it would make cleaning easier. And yes, instead of boards though, we plan to use a shallow plastic tote. Hopefully we will just be able to take it over to the compost pile and dump or scrape the stuff into there.
