Our Silkies Dr. Seuss style house (a building thread)

[CapricornFarm]

Hey Scott, How old are your chickens? Just quit that boring job and get your coop built!

 

[ScottandSam]

Our oldest chicken in the hen house are 2 years old next March. Newer colorful egg layers are 1 year old come January. There also looks to be 2 bcm roos , 2 bcm hens and 2 welsummers roos. They are about 12 weeks old. I want to get a place for the roos built asap.

The silkies,whom this coop are for are about a 4-5 weeks old down to 7 that are 6-1 hour old and some soon to hatch.
Scott
Btw working on boats is not all that boring. Lol While I love working on boats on the docks, it has been cold and nasty the last 2 weeks. But a warm ups here and being in a t shirt and shorts today November 2 was nice. Hopefully the rain holds off so we can get moving on the coop this weekend. We will need to haul in another trailer full off logs. Between cutting some lumber and Samantha carving up a lot of bears later. The tailers and piles are looking really thin right now.

Scott

 

[Kiki]

Keep up the good work.
I am loving this coop!

 

[chaidarling]

This is so cool! I can't wait to see the finished product!

 

[sannabelle]

This is awesome!!! You could be a custom coop designer! Like the Pete Nelson (treehouse guy)of chicken coops!

 

[Suzi18]

Just following along

 

[ScottandSam]

Well we got a few hours to work today. It started off slow. Our mill is down till we can get a few specialized studs and spacers ordered up.We had to work with some extra 2x4 we cut last weekend. So the focus was on the nesting box.We also had some plywood cutoff laying around.
So we're about 65% done on the nesting box so far and........... We will just let the pics show the rest..........................................

That silly wide 2x4 you see ln the pic 2 has 2 angles at the top and one at the bottom. Boy did that eat up time.
Tomorrow is support to be colder and rain so I'm not sure what we will be able to do. If Notting else I may take that 1st pic into win paint and chop off the front overhang of the 52"L floor or we may just fill it in that area with another floor. And give em wider boxes. It will be 4 boxes 12" + cubed. If that makes sense.
Scott

 

[Kiki]

Well we got a few hours to work today. It started off slow. Our mill is down till we can get a few specialized studs and spacers ordered up.We had to work with some extra 2x4 we cut last weekend. So the focus was on the nesting box.We also had some plywood cutoff laying around.
So we're about 65% done on the nesting box so far and........... We will just let the pics show the rest..........................................
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Thanks silly wide 2x4 you see ln the pic 2 has 2 angles at the top and one at the bottom. Boy did that eat up time.
Tomorrow is support to be colder and rain so I'm not sure what we will be able to do. If Notting else I may take that 1st pic into win paint and chop off the front overhang of the 52"L floor or we may just fill it in that area with another floor. And give em wider boxes. It will be 4 boxes 12" + cubed. If that makes sense.
Scott

 

[Sunshine Flock]

Baited breath I await.

Well garlic breath, but I guess it's good for baiting something.

Tell me about your saw mill. Brand? Chainsaw mill?

Maybe I overlooked it, but pine logs? What kind?

Beautiful and fun project!

 

[hlhutchinson]

Well since the 1st hatch of silkies hit 3 weeks old and the 2nd unhatched hit 3 days in a incubator. We found the time to get started on what will be one of the hardest projects I have every tried to build.
I don't know when the idea came about, but we started researching pictures and designs 2-3 months ago on what will be our Dr. Seuss/ rustic silkie coop. I love the bright colors but not on the outside of the coop. It needs to fit in with the other structures around the property to some degree. Of course this is a work in project that can and will change from day to day. The plans are in my head at this point. The only thing I drew on paper was what was completed today. So from this point forward there will be no level, square or plum bob used in this build. (That really is the hardest point for me). I will be using a ruler from time to time to measure what we need to fit the gap we created. I am excited to get back to building I always have fun. We are also on a tight budget on this build . We are looking to buy flooring support, floor, shingles and roof plywood. Then cut all the rest on the mill. Also we will use some left over wood we have from other projects.
Today we set out to get the floor built so we can start cutting the 2x material we need for framing the walls.

So with no delay the pictures
1st the floor framing. Leveled with rocks and dirt filled inside so no holes to get under the coop. Well at least not the chickens. We will add the Hardwire to the run side later.........................................................

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The plywood floor. The floor and 2x6 are ground contact treated. and before any comments come Yes, rest assured the floor will be painted..........................

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Well we wanted to paint the floor today but it was way too windy and lots of leaves falling that we did not want in wet paint . We will wait on that till there is a roof and walls. Then no leaves or chicken feet will get in the wet paint. We decides to prep the run and let the hens start composting it until the runs complete.
1st load of wood chips.........................................................................

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And then another load of wood chips....................................................
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The hens loved it. They were inspecting everything we did today and gave us a big thumbs up.

Also please let us know if something looks wrong, out of place, or just a easier way. We are always open to suggestion that is how we learn.

Scott

Can’t wait to see the finished coop love the idea