Post ur Michigan Coop

[DustinLach]

were new to this and so i would like to see what those of you who live in michigan did with your coops and how you work with the warm summers and chilly winters pics would be greatly appreciated and the more the better so i can have a good design idea thank you very much.

 

[DustinLach]

where is all the michiganders at im a week from breaking ground wanted some ideas

i just read a thread about heat vs no heat and no im befuddled on that situation i plan on insulating to.

 

[SweeChee]

We're newbies too. Here is what my husband built after looking at some other coops here. Not sure about insulating yet, going to wait until fall and make that decision. We are also going to run electricity so we can use light and heat lamps in necessary.

Here is the door where we can go in and change food & water and clean out coop.

Top door is to access the nesting boxes. Bottom two doors are for storage.

Pop door. Still need to add ramp up to deck.

Window that opens. Door at bottom opens to clean out under roost.

Other window.

Roosting area (going to add one more roost). Our floor is made of that plastic decking wood so it should wash out nicely (got it free from a friend

Nesting boxes. Small area on top could use for storage, but I have a feeling the chickens will be up there

. Need to keep an eye out for eggs.

Still a lot of little things to do (run cable for pop door, add vents, paint, add fenced in run area....) Just got done roofing in the cold today. Now if it would warm up we could get the painting done. Hope this helps

 

[DustinLach]

i would love to see the framing foundation more of this building. i might mimick it if you dont mind the more pictures the better and or plans beautiful building love the storage.

 

[mightieskeeper]

I live in Clio. You can check mine out in my BYC page. Now that I had chickens over year now. There is lots of things I would change on the coop. Ryan

 

[DustinLach]

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