PALLET Coop, help!!!

[thaiturkey]

This thatch roof is awesome! Oh, I do hope you light the way to the coop with tiki torches and serve them drinks made out of coconuts which necessitate little umbrellas!

Indeed we do have tiki torches sometimes but for our thatched gazebo rather than the coop! My wife is teetotal but fresh coconut and the milk is a common food in these parts.

We can get a better thatch now.It's made from palm leaves which lasts much longer, 10 years, and retains its oils for better waterproofing in the rainy season. My wife's restaurant is thatched with palm leaf and those drinks are available there:

 

[QuietPony]

Indeed we do have tiki torches sometimes but for our thatched gazebo rather than the coop! My wife is teetotal but fresh coconut and the milk is a common food in these parts.

We can get a better thatch now.It's made from palm leaves which lasts much longer, 10 years, and retains its oils for better waterproofing in the rainy season. My wife's restaurant is thatched with palm leaf and those drinks are available there:

FANTASTIC! I'll be over in 5 minutes.

 

[Fluffychicky]

So tools I need are basically a drill an electric saw some hammer and nails and hinges...am I missing anything? I was also wondering about how to do lighting in a coop when I can't run an extension cord to any outlet?

 

[thaiturkey]

FANTASTIC! I'll be over in 5 minutes.

Coffee's on!

 

[thaiturkey]

So tools I need are basically a drill an electric saw some hammer and nails and hinges...am I missing anything? I was also wondering about how to do lighting in a coop when I can't run an extension cord to any outlet?

Probably a tape measure too.

If you are to extend power outdoors for lighting, there will certainly be some safety regulations with which you must comply. An extension cable from a socket in the house won't be enough.

 

[Fluffychicky]

Oh dear maybe I better not mess with that then, will the chickens be ok without a light in their coop?

 

[thaiturkey]

We've had turkeys and chickens in coops with no light and they were quite happy. I believe that they organise their activities by daylight and night-time so natural light would be fine.

Now we have banties that are full time free range. At dusk, they gather under a tree and make their way up into the branches one by one. At dawn, they are down again and feeding. They have such at tight routine that, when some of the lower branches of their tree were lopped, that sat under it at dusk complaining for five minutes or so!

 

[Fluffychicky]

We've had turkeys and chickens in coops with no light and they were quite happy. I believe that they organise their activities by daylight and night-time so natural light would be fine.

Now we have banties that are full time free range. At dusk, they gather under a tree and make their way up into the branches one by one. At dawn, they are down again and feeding. They have such at tight routine that, when some of the lower branches of their tree were lopped, that sat under it at dusk complaining for five minutes or so!

Aw that sounds so cute <3

 

[oldrooster]

Job sites, they discard their pallets. Go behind strip malls, grocery stores, etc. look for a stack of pallets get what you need, but don't take blue pallets they reuse them. Dumpster Diving. But the best place for pallets behind and around closed down warehouses. Ask if the warehouse is in use.

Ask at the stores also because they may reuse all their pallets, not just the blue ones, i work at a grocery store in the receiving department and some of the stores in my company store the pallets outside and we are charged if we don't send them ALL back to the warehouse.... Craigs list and sometimes the local newspaper may have a listing also here in Indiana we have some radio stations that have a radio classified ad show (free to callers) and I have heard people advertise free ones on those programs. edited to say I saw here on BYC where someone saw online and made their own special pry bar to pry the pallets apart. it looks like a large lever with a handle on the top and a couple of small pry bars on the bottom set at a 45 degree angle and a piece of metal pipe to use as a pivit point to pull the boards apart. I guess you would have to pull or cut the nails out or perhaps if possible just reuse the nails in the same potion or just bend them down?

 

[thaiturkey]

We have people buy pallets and packing cases for resale.They also make outdoor furniture from them. In the absence of businesses like that, probably the best source of discarded pallets would be a factory that has machinery and raw materials delivered.