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Sally Sunshine said:
Progress of our Shed conversion to breeder pens and grow out pens.... larger pics are in my profile in family and pets

We split the shed in half longwise with a simple 2x3 fram and that plastic chicken wire because its cheap.
We made two breeder pens and 2 stacked grow out pens, which dont have doors or chickens yet.
I wanted it this way so I had easy access to each pen without having to step in chicken poo to go from one into another pen, plus I have hanging storage and storage for straw and feed, etc.
All doors will be unframed on the bottom so I can simply sweep pens out the door and right onto a tarp I can pull into woods compost pile without having to load it all up. Simply cleaning was on my mind BIG time. each pen has an outlet on the ceiling as well as a reg light on timers.... grow outs will have red heat lamps.. for now the nov hatch brahma are residing in the second breeder pen until I get set up. Each pen has cement block for beak scratching, water dishes, and feed, and book shelves made into nesting bxs.... Need to get a roost up for the cochin, but they seem to like that broken skid so I left it for now....
This is the view from the front doors..... the first pen opens up with the main door left side...... the middle pen has its own door.











this is my light stenciled brahma gal, just had to take her pic she was so pretty
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this is a view with both front doors open











cochin pen














2nd pen with my braham kiddos



two grow out brooder areas stacked in the last "stall" work in progress













oh and this here is Ruger, one of Maddys Pups born in sept.... one of my oldest sons kept him for those who arent on FB




I want all of the above....
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Sally Sunshine said:
Progress of our Shed conversion to breeder pens and grow out pens.... larger pics are in my profile in family and pets

We split the shed in half longwise with a simple 2x3 fram and that plastic chicken wire because its cheap.
We made two breeder pens and 2 stacked grow out pens, which dont have doors or chickens yet.
I wanted it this way so I had easy access to each pen without having to step in chicken poo to go from one into another pen, plus I have hanging storage and storage for straw and feed, etc.
All doors will be unframed on the bottom so I can simply sweep pens out the door and right onto a tarp I can pull into woods compost pile without having to load it all up. Simply cleaning was on my mind BIG time. each pen has an outlet on the ceiling as well as a reg light on timers.... grow outs will have red heat lamps.. for now the nov hatch brahma are residing in the second breeder pen until I get set up. Each pen has cement block for beak scratching, water dishes, and feed, and book shelves made into nesting bxs.... Need to get a roost up for the cochin, but they seem to like that broken skid so I left it for now....
This is the view from the front doors..... the first pen opens up with the main door left side...... the middle pen has its own door.


this is my light stenciled brahma gal, just had to take her pic she was so pretty
Click to expand...


this is a view with both front doors open



cochin pen


2nd pen with my braham kiddos



two grow out brooder areas stacked in the last "stall" work in progress



oh and this here is Ruger, one of Maddys Pups born in sept.... one of my oldest sons kept him for those who arent on FB



Nicely done!! should work great for you! and Ruger is a gorgeous boy! One of Mindy's 'best friends' is a Springer who lives across the road from us at the campground in Erie. Jerry comes over to get her for play time... they are such nice dogs!
 
Thank you! I forgot to mention what is nice is that I can make any breeding pen bigger or smaller depending on who I want in them.
 
OK, I am working through some placement issues for my coop and Sally has been a big help. How many of you have a chicken coop in light woods? Like at the edge of, or just inside a 20 foot distance of 50-80 foot desiduous trees? The ground area would be old leaves and virtually no grass.
 
Baym said:
OK, I am working through some placement issues for my coop and Sally has been a big help. How many of you have a chicken coop in light woods? Like at the edge of, or just inside a 20 foot distance of 50-80 foot desiduous trees? The ground area would be old leaves and virtually no grass.
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Ours is... at the back edge of the yard, adjoins woods, has a 100ft tall oak directly behind. But we did an 8ft chain link fence around the run, and laid in a ton of large flat sandstones and shale around the back side to reduce predation risks.
 

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