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[NanaNeen]

This is AWESOME!! Do you have the dimensions/instructions somewhere.
Also how many can you keep in one this size?

That's just great!

 

[gpeters3]

I liked our little bantam rooster but he was small and not especially dangerous but the larger ones attacked the kids and they went right into the freezer and that ended any desire to hatch. The second reason is they crow all day and most of the night and my chicken project may be technically illegal. I do it because the township doesnt look for trouble and only acts on complaints. Keep them out of sight and quiet and no one will complain, the good neighbor strategy. I designed my coop and run using code pole barn construction so if i ever have to give them up i can use the space for storage etc.. All I have to do is add a roof and steel siding and i have a code extension to my barn. Meanwhile im enjoying my chickens and turkeys

 

[TJordan]

Look a roof frame is done!!! Most of top is up and all that's left is walls and cutting a door.

 

[tjparker60]

@tjparker60 what are the dimensions to your coop under construction?

It's 12'x12'

 

[Fallenone05]

My mom and I built this new coop! It's under two shade trees, and we finished it about Thursday or Friday (4/21 or 4/22/2016).
We just moved the girls in it and they love-love it. The outside ladder is made of drift wood

 

[bigmrg74]

Thats interesting I have used it in the back yard to retrain an escape dog..... She hit that once and I could her her yelp from the other side of the house... she tested it in another area.... that did it. I never had to switch it on again. yep the city.

deb

Sounds like what my ex's dog did when I was babysitting him at the farm when she was gone for a week. She lived in the city so he never had much of a chance to be outside off of the leash. And when he was off the leash at a park, he didn't listen too good and it took me and her a while to get ahold of him. So I had Onyx, this big young black lab outside and bouncing around the barnyard. I was yelling at him to come back here, not too concerned about it as he was going into an empty horse lot and figure that sooner or later he would wear himself out and come back to me. He went way back into a corner of the lot and all of a sudden he lets out a bloodcurdling yelp. He beats feet right back to us just as fast as he could, and me and my brother are just laughing at him. The look on his poor face just said that something just jumped up and bit me! However, after that, he listen to when we was asking him to come back.

Anyone have an A Frame coop? I'm going to try and tackle making my own coop myself and an Aframe seems reasonable to tackle on my own, but I'm having a hard time envisioning the dimensions of actual usable space on the inside (and where to put the roosts).
*this will be for a small flock

Click on my profile and check out my coop build page. I built a modified A-frame tractor that has worked out fairly well for me. I just wish I had built it a little lighter, and maybe a little bigger.

 

[FarmerPhronc]

My birds lay all through the day and OCCASIONALLY from the roost overnight. They don't see well in the dark and won't get off the roosts. If a bird didn't lay one day, she will lay early the next day, then progress from there getting later each day until the next day off. But there is no "standard". One of my White Rock pullets laid 32 days straight. She has become more reasonable but it is quite common for her to lay 10-14 days straight. Other pullets rarely go more than 3-5 days before a day off.

I have to agree, my ladies are much the same although I haven't had one lay from the roost overnight yet. I worked on a farm/ranch with some 250 hens. The "Poultry Lady" told me that they lay on a 25 hour cycle. I've found that to be pretty much true, they lay a little later each day till they take a day off every 3 to 5 days. I have 5 hens and the way they are cycling I collect 4 to 5 eggs a day.

 

[MeepBeep]

 

My birds lay all through the day and OCCASIONALLY from the roost overnight. They don't see well in the dark and won't get off the roosts. If a bird didn't lay one day, she will lay early the next day, then progress from there getting later each day until the next day off. But there is no "standard". One of my White Rock pullets laid 32 days straight. She has become more reasonable but it is quite common for her to lay 10-14 days straight. Other pullets rarely go more than 3-5 days before a day off. 

I have to agree, my ladies are much the same although I haven't had one lay from the roost overnight yet. I worked on a farm/ranch with some 250 hens. The "Poultry Lady" told me that they lay on a 25 hour cycle. I've found that to be pretty much true, they lay a little later each day till they take a day off every 3 to 5 days. I have 5 hens and the way they are cycling I collect 4 to 5 eggs a day.

This is why I generally don't collect eggs until very close to light out time, as about half my birds lay in afternoon or early evening hours...

I rarely get eggs under the roost, but eggs just seem to fall out of the Guinea Fowl all day as they walk around, half my Guinea Fowl eggs every day are scattered around the floor of the coop... Although a few Guineas started to use the nesting boxes this year, but that comes with it's own problems as they go into the nesting boxes and toss the wood chips around like a confetti party burying and/or cracking other eggs in the nesting box...

 

[Sylvester017]

We get so many tomatoes and herbs in the summer--chickens love tomatoes. We also eat 2 pints of strawberries a day, and they love the green tops. I just give them our watermelon rinds and they leave the thinnest green peel behind.

In the big coop, the hens usually spend hot days under the big coop which is enclosed with hardware mesh. I have a huge swing umbrella on the hardscaping that covers some of the run, but it would be nice to have more shade and not have to adjust it. Also, it would make it so much easier to rake out if it was walk in run. I also was thinking about putting hinges on the top of the run, so I could flip them open and walk in. I bought some green shade cloth. But I like it to look neat, so I'd have to remove the frame, stall the cloth and put the frame back together. I have a big new nipple waterer system to install but it's going to need something sturdy to hold it. Decisions, decisions. When it's super hot we set up misters, little fans for the runs and throw ice cubes in the water too. All that being said, I've had a hen avoid the shade, mist, fan, cool water and just lie in the sun when it's 100+ weather.

We've been building, modifying, adjusting, adding, and taking apart chicken stuff in the yard for 5 years now. We're still not done!
OUR FIRST COOP, NOW GONE TO A FRIEND.


WE TARPED IT, PUT A PLYWOOD WIND WALL ON IT, AND EVENTUALLY HAD A POP-UP CANOPY OVER IT.


AFTER 5 YEARS OF THE LITTLE COOP WE FINALLY INVESTED IN A NEW BARN COOP STYLE THAT I ALWAYS WANTED.


AND WE'RE STILL NOT DONE -- STILL HAVE TO ASSEMBLE THE ADD-ON KENNEL RUN THAT COMES WITH IT!!!

 

[Sylvester017]

Anyone have an A Frame coop? I'm going to try and tackle making my own coop myself and an Aframe seems reasonable to tackle on my own, but I'm having a hard time envisioning the dimensions of actual usable space on the inside (and where to put the roosts).
*this will be for a small flock

Google A-frame chicken coops or search thru the photos on this "post your chicken coop..." thread to see the many ways companies or private owners have designed the top floor or back-end of A-frames with nestboxes and perches. I saw one owner that built one that was tall enough to be a walk-in!!!! I went nuts one time just searching all the coop websites to peruse the many styles and functions of coops just for fun!