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[Wfpendragon]

That is a SUPER start!!! Great job!

nice coop!

 

[bruceha2000]

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Yep. I believe it was @MeepBeep that posted the quantity of rabbits you will have from a single female. I have at least 1 rabbit that I believe lives in the lower part of the little barn (bad roof, we don't use it and don't go in often) and see one in front of the house and in front of the big barn, foraging along with the chickens. I have seen bunnies in prior years which means at least TWO rabbits in the area. But if we didn't have predators, we would have hundreds of thousands by now and I think even my aging eyes MIGHT notice that many.

I don't know what is keeping the population down. Have lost 2 chickens to foxes and maybe they are taking out the rabbits since I've made efforts to make it harder for them to sneak up on the girls. Sure wish they would take out the !@#$%^ woodchucks.

Just finished ours up. 16'x8' total. 8'8 coop, 8'8 run.

Very nice!

I don't know if you can tell what is lurking just 20 feet of our coop.... Let's hope all the installs/upgrades do us well as there have been a lot of coyotes spotted carrying chickens off in our neighbourhood.

After finding this guy this morning (and running him off) I also finally finished the top of our gate. Fingers crossed the fencing holds well!

That coyote sure does seem to be checking out the menu!

 

[MeepBeep]

Sure wish they would take out the !@#$%^ woodchucks.

I hear you there, had a skunk family take up residence in my barn last fall, had to deal with them all winter while they hibernated, took care of them come spring once they woke up, and now a wood chuck family moved in and I'm trying to take care of them right now and they are proving quite resilient, tried to gas them out repeatably (worked on the skunk) and they keep avoiding being live trapped and since they are in the barn or in the pasture with the goats and llamas shooting them is complicated... Probably going to have to resort to a conibear kill trap to rid myself of them...

 

[cabinchicky]

Hope you don't loose the trap in the process, have a conifer wedged under a concrete barn floor now for 6 yrs. Freaking groundhogs!

 

[MeepBeep]

Hope you don't loose the trap in the process, have a conifer wedged under a concrete barn floor now for 6 yrs. Freaking groundhogs!

Yeah, going to have to stake it down good or chain it to the wall as they are big critters and like you they are digging under the slab so if it gets pulled in I'm not going to be able to retrieve it... Just need to do something before they cause the slab to fail...

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

What does anyone think of this design?

 

[Latestarter]

What does anyone think of this design?

It's a chicken coop. Can be done with pallets or with straight up lumber. I do NOT like the OSB as flooring and highly recommend against doing that under any circumstances. Personally, I think building 2x4 stud walls would have been easier and a lot stronger, but if you have free pallets

why not use them? As for interior layout, that can be done in whatever fashion suits the owner...

 

[MeepBeep]

What does anyone think of this design?

Unless you have lots of identically sized free skids laying around I don't see the benefit over framing... As said above the OSB decking is a poor choice and the 'sealer' they used like most deck sealers is utter garbage in this application, that sealer is a basically a light weight oil mixed with antifreeze and some mold/mildew preservative, it won't last long and it's toxicity in a coop is likely questionable as well...

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Ya I will be using what ever I have around but still make it suit my chickens needs and I might go and make the whole thing coop and have a built in breeding pen area with its own run. And then I might go and if I have space I will go and make a brooder.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Unless you have lots of identically sized free skids laying around I don't see the benefit over framing... As said above the OSB decking is a poor choice and the 'sealer' they used like most deck sealers is utter garbage in this application, that sealer is a basically a light weight oil mixed with antifreeze and some mold/mildew preservative, it won't last long and it's toxicity in a coop is likely questionable as well...

I won't be doing everything the same as they did. I will take the coop the way they built it but have 2x4s in the corners and then take 1 inch plywood for the floors and then I like the shed sheeting they put on the outside. The skids they arnt the same they are made with plywood and I think 2x6s I'm not sure but if I don't use them they are just going to set there so better use them while they are still good to use. Thanks for the advice