post your chicken coop pictures here!

[MandalaMaMa]

I finally got my coop done. We are so excited to get started with chickens.

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Very nice --- isn't a great feeling. Do you have your baby chicks yet?

 

[perchie.girl]

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I am more afraid of feral dogs and cats than I am of the Local wild life... and I have Bobcat and Mountain Lions ....

. Love love love the idea of solar fountain... the one in my front yard has never been filled with water because the wiring is shot. I may just plug the hole up completely and use a solar fountain.

deb

 

[Latestarter]

I finally got my coop done. We are so excited to get started with chickens.

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Pick up my chicks on the 14th

Lookin' great! Grats! Oh, and

and the thread. With those woods behind you, I sure hope you're going to make a nice secure run for them! How many birds are you planning to house there?

 

[Strux]

I am definitely going to have a secure run for them as we do have predators in the air and ground. We plan on getting 50 chicks.

 

[Madddawg]

I have seen a lot of people on here bury chicken wire Around the perimeter to prevent death from below. I buried big rocks. (actually stones for a fire pit I never built)



That picture was taken Before I finished it. And it still isn't. I am in the process of leveling out the out the stones and then putting 1" clean rock over the top of it. As a bonus I will have whats called a French Drain system, With out the perforated pipe, To stop water from running into the run. I may even put up a gutter and put the down spout into the drain.

 

[vehve]

That's going to pull water nicely, but you might want to put in some sort of exit for the water too, a length of pipe buried that leads to lower ground or something.

 

[perchie.girl]

I have seen a lot of people on here bury chicken wire Around the perimeter to prevent death from below. I buried big rocks. (actually stones for a fire pit I never built)



That picture was taken Before I finished it. And it still isn't. I am in the process of leveling out the out the stones and then putting 1" clean rock over the top of it. As a bonus I will have whats called a French Drain system, With out the perforated pipe, To stop water from running into the run. I may even put up a gutter and put the down spout into the drain.

Nice Are you keeping the coop as a dirt floor coop? Thats what I have and I love it.

deb

 

[RobJones]

This is my latest addition coop number 3 that will be home to 20 ready to lay white leghorn hens later this month


This is the POOP BOARD situated under the roosting perches, I have one in coop number 2 and it really works, I can clean the coop floor in 10 minutes


It' plastic comes in 8 x 4 sheets, it's normally used for roof covering for carports and veranders to allow light in



It;s called UNITECH and its not expensive about $10 a sheet, needs to be well suported because you cant walk on it, what I have done is 2 x 3's 1 foot apart with bamboo lats 1 inch apart I can walk on it

Coop number 1 this is how it all started



Then I added coop number 2 doubled the space and added the pen, coop number 3 is not complete yet I will put pics up when its finished

 

[perchie.girl]

@RobJones

Very nice I love the coop construction you guys use in the Philippines

deb

 

[RobJones]

@RobJones

Very nice I love the coop construction you guys use in the Philippines

deb

Thanks Deb