Our Coop progress!!!

BabasCoop

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Apr 27, 2020
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Selah, Washington, USA
So excited!!! After we spent a lot of time fully enclosing our coop/run area, the coop is finally coming together.
So off the back of our shop, between the shop and the pasture, the previous owner had installed a very well made sturdy lean to. And along the shop wall of the lean 2 was a 2 1/2’x19’ workbench. We decided this was going to be the initial bones of our coop/run.

We enclosed an additional 14’ past the end of the lean to, to the end of the shop. Our run area is 33’x12’ total.

My husband has built the frame and roofing of our nest box area and has now started on the coop. Our coop will be suspended from the roof so the entire underside will be open, which will allow our chickens the full 33’x12’ space to roam.

I have 1” ventilation under the eves of the entire nest box as well as space behind the next boxes between the shop wall and the roof for good circulation.
The coop will have 12” of ventilation all along the top front under the roof. And on the sides scaled ventilation that starts at 12” like the front and scales to 24” as the slope of the roof increases towards the shop.
Every section will have hinged doors for easy access to collect eggs, clean and change coop liter etc.

There is access to electricity from the shop if the need arises.

I’m super Eggcited to see our plans coming together. And just in time!!!! My chicks will be ready to move the weekend after next I believe!

Here are some pictures if you would like to see it. We live in a very dry arid area that usually is in the 20s during the winter (with the occasional teens), and about 4 months of 80+, often reaching 95-100 in July, Aug, Sept.
 

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Update!!!! The coop is finish and is now housing 16 Much happier chickens!!!

We still need to finish off the nest boxes and do some painting before we let them roam free next week. But they seem to really enjoy the extra room now.

Also we had planned on using pine shavings, (I had been telling my husband about using sand and he said that he had never heard of using sand before and he felt it would be too heavy). But the pink shavings mixed with the vinyl flooring was not a good combo. Very slick!! They wouldn’t even attempt to jump up on the roosts!!!

So I convinced him to let me use sand and we swapped it out! It was like night and day!!! They were sooo much happier. Several of them instantly started taking baths and jumping on the roosts. I’m a much happier chicken mama!!

I have added some pictures of the finished coop and adding the chickens into the coop for the first time. As well as after we added the sand. Enjoy!!!
 

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Keep in mind that chicken wire is not predator proof, so depending on your possible predators you might want to consider adding hardware cloth or small opening welded wire to help reinforce the openings.
Our entire run is double reinforced. With some combination of cattle fencing, chain link fencing, 1/2 inch thick plywood and chicken wire.

The coop is predator proof, being suspended 4 feet off the ground.

If a predator did happen to breech our run, they would not likely be able to breech our coop :).
 

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