Junction5672
In the Brooder
We got our day-old chicks back in June and they were ready to get outside in mid-July, we had some friends that were done with their coop and offered it to us so of course we took them up on the offer and off we went.
We started with:
We added some left-over vinyl flooring from my aunt's kitchen reno:
Then we had an old pool liner because I save EVERYTHING, because you know, I'll need it someday! Well today was that day, I lined the roof with it and held it down with pieces of aluminum from an old gazebo that blew down a few years back, wrapped the walls of the nesting boxes, behind the roosting bar, wrapped the wall above the nesting boxes and wrapped the nesting boxes themselves on the outside, they are completely waterproof now.
We got some red and white Behr livestock safe paint from Home Depot and finished the rest:
I trimmed out the door like a barn and added an awning over the vent at the top (which in the end, I didn't need because it is inside the run...but hey, it's looks better anyway haha):
Then it was time to get that thing up on the foundation, so I broke out some more "junk" I had laying around, an old basketball net post, a flagpole holder/pipe and another random piece of pipe I had laying around and used them as rollers to roll it into place:
A little brute force and some tense moments where my wife thought I was going to flip it over haha, and boom, it's in place:
We laid out the frame of the run onto cinder blocks and got it all level and square:
We pre-painted every piece and built the walls, framed out the roof and put metal roofing on:
It wasn't "complete" but it was safe enough for them to be in it while we put the finishing touches on it:
We buried the hardware cloth in the ground about a foot deep all the way around:
Added a roosting bar, and they are pretty happy:
I give you, the "Fluffy Butt Hut":
They have been in it for 2 weeks so far and they are loving it!
We started with:
We added some left-over vinyl flooring from my aunt's kitchen reno:
Then we had an old pool liner because I save EVERYTHING, because you know, I'll need it someday! Well today was that day, I lined the roof with it and held it down with pieces of aluminum from an old gazebo that blew down a few years back, wrapped the walls of the nesting boxes, behind the roosting bar, wrapped the wall above the nesting boxes and wrapped the nesting boxes themselves on the outside, they are completely waterproof now.
We got some red and white Behr livestock safe paint from Home Depot and finished the rest:
I trimmed out the door like a barn and added an awning over the vent at the top (which in the end, I didn't need because it is inside the run...but hey, it's looks better anyway haha):
Then it was time to get that thing up on the foundation, so I broke out some more "junk" I had laying around, an old basketball net post, a flagpole holder/pipe and another random piece of pipe I had laying around and used them as rollers to roll it into place:
A little brute force and some tense moments where my wife thought I was going to flip it over haha, and boom, it's in place:
We laid out the frame of the run onto cinder blocks and got it all level and square:
We pre-painted every piece and built the walls, framed out the roof and put metal roofing on:
It wasn't "complete" but it was safe enough for them to be in it while we put the finishing touches on it:
We buried the hardware cloth in the ground about a foot deep all the way around:
Added a roosting bar, and they are pretty happy:
I give you, the "Fluffy Butt Hut":
They have been in it for 2 weeks so far and they are loving it!
Who knows what the next model will look like 
