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[shaelyn]

Nice artwork!!! Oh AND a reciprocating saw I always find it amazing what people can do with pallets. Job well done. If you mean you used an Arrow style staple gun to affix the hardware cloth (yea, NOT chicken wire!) be aware that they will pull out easier than falling off a log. I suggest you add screws and fender washers (some people actually use metal bottle caps if they have a lot!) or poultry AKA fence staples:

Yeah, we used a staple gun to attach the hardware cloth. I was wondering how well it would hold up with just the staples. Thanks for the tip. We used our drill and some really great decking screws to assemble the coop and those made the process very smooth.

 

[Natalierose]

Finally got my coop chicken completed!! It needs a few more additions- Need to hardware cloth under it so they have more space and add a second roost but it's basically done!

 

[rides2far]

Pretty in pink!

 

[peastix]

Pretty in pink!

x2 just what I was going to say!

 

[peastix]

Here's my coop/run. The footprint is 6x10; the run has a 2 foot apron. Every opening is covered with 1/2 inch mesh pneumatic stapled on. The primary run is covered with roofing.
There is a secondary run walled in by the chain link fence in the back, and the green house, coop, and fill in fencing/gate. So that makes a total footprint of 180 sq feet. The secondary area is covered with netting and only used in the day. There is an Ador1 automatic door between the primary coop/run and the secondary run.
Thanks for looking!

View of coop/run part of secondary run and then the greenhouse visible on the right.

Side of primary coop/run with gate to secondary run on left.

Spoilt chickens!

 

[lindalouly]

I am almost to the point of painting a name on my coop... I have four teenaged to 6 year old sons.... My fiancé and his brother here... I have a female pitbull and a male mix and two tortoises of each sex... I have eight girl hens and one cockerel.... I call all the females in my life pretty girl.... So I need a name along those lines.... Pretty girl egg express?!?!? I want it to be clever.

 

[gilcamp4]

We had almost a 2 weeks spell of bizarrely warm weather. Sometimes there wasn't a breeze. The chickens would settle in the path of the fan to cool off!

It's gone now, we are back down to the 70's.

PS. Actually, if you look in the first pic, you can see a chicken tunnel I made from that free range door, to a wire and netting area under a tree on the lawn. This was a great spot for them. (No, my chickens aren't spoiled. Why do you ask?)

my dh just put up a fan like we have in our house on the 4x4's now we have to watch our heads but chickens are cool, lol talk about spoiled, yes they are, ours can go under the whole camper coop.

 

[Lillyanna]

4x10' DIY project for about $1000

 

[Spartan22]

We had almost a 2 weeks spell of bizarrely warm weather. Sometimes there wasn't a breeze. The chickens would settle in the path of the fan to cool off!

It's gone now, we are back down to the 70's.

PS. Actually, if you look in the first pic, you can see a chicken tunnel I made from that free range door, to a wire and netting area under a tree on the lawn. This was a great spot for them. (No, my chickens aren't spoiled. Why do you ask?)   

Just wondering, I guess I need to put fan on my coop next week will be 90's. I saw them panting with beaks open when it was 85deg.

 

[bruceha2000]

I think so, if they are panting they are too hot. Also consider putting ice in their water and make sure they have shade. And if they are confined to the coop, see if you can't replace some solid walls with hardware cloth covered window openings to get air flow through the coop. You will probably need to block some of this off in the winter. Perhaps some nice FUNCTIONAL exterior shutters that actually do something besides sit screwed to the wall as you see in most houses for "decorative effect". Shutters USED to be mounted such that when they closed, they blocked off the window opening. Often the "decorative" ones look stupid (to me) because they aren't even the same size as the windows they WOULD cover if they were movable. It is just me, I'm sure. I have a problem with "functional" things being used in a decorative fashion when they COULD be decorative AND functional!