post your chicken coop pictures here!

[eggnificent]

 

[Sylvester017]

Kyle, looks good. I'll just warn you, some predators will have an easy time getting to your birds through that big holes in the net.

I had some progress with the bunny pen again today.

With bunnies what do you do to keep them from tunneling under and out of their enclosure? A friend of mine had a couple as house pets and she said they were very clever animals.

 

[Sylvester017]

The ledge in front of the nestboxes is nice. Some ppl just use a perch but my particular hens love to stroll on the ledge to pick out their favourite box!

You may want to use more secure 1/2 inch hardwire rather than poultry wire which is just wrapped around itself and comes apart easily by predators. I had stray dogs that mangled our little coop's poultry wire and would've lost our birds if not for a good neighbor that chased off the mutts. Alert - it's a shocker when you see the price. Cattle pen wire or rabbit fencing right over the poultry wire is more secure than just poultry wire which bends easily and by itself is not secure against attacks.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Felix is in Finland... so he may be off for the night.... but first thing he did was line the bottom of the bunny area with hardware cloth... I think he said about a foot down.

 

[vehve]

Deb, that's right. Plastic covered hardware cloth.

 

[vehve]

Finished product:

 

[GAchickennewbie]

Finished product:

It looks great! Awesome job!

 

[perchie.girl]

Finished product:

came out way different than I was visualizing.... But much better Your bunny is going to get sooo much exercise.

deb

 

[vehve]

Deb, yeah, she's running around in there. She figured out the ramp pretty quickly too. It was a bit too steep at first, but we raised it on a hay bale, and after that she was okay with it.

What were you picturing?

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, yeah, she's running around in there. She figured out the ramp pretty quickly too. It was a bit too steep at first, but we raised it on a hay bale, and after that she was okay with it.

What were you picturing?

I thought the doors were to go on the ends.....

duh.... and I wasnt figuring on a whole wall of doors on the tall side... But I LIKE it now that you finally assembled it.... and I understand why you did it that way.

deb