post your chicken coop pictures here!

[perchie.girl]

Thanks Deb!! It's our first time with chickens. My husband came up with the idea of the roost bars so that we could remove to clean if needed. They also swing up for easier cleaning of the coop, or we can add links to the chain and they can slope down for easier access for the girls.

Once they learn how to get up on them having them all at the same high resolves most dominance issues.

One thing though if your birds are Large fowl you may want to beef up the roost size... they tend to sit flat on their feet and hunker down to cover the tips of their toes with their feathers. So having a perch that is three to four inches wide is optimal. If you are using two by twos it would be a simple matter of doubling up with an additional two by two.

chickens dont grip with their feet.... not like some birds can.

But all in all for a first time build and first time with Chickens... you did an awesome job.

deb

 

[yolksonus]

Ooohhhh- thanks for the info Deb. Luckily- an easy fix!!!!

 

[ginny1966]

We got our coop a fresh paint job today and added windows for circulation

 

[perchie.girl]

We got our coop a fresh paint job today. Well, i was going to show pics, but cant figure out how,,,,,

Its pretty easy But you have to get your pictures on your computer first... I am no good when it comes to transferring pictures from cell phones though.

place the picture in a file you know how to get to...

Then click on the button above your post that shows a couple of mountains and a sun.

You will get a dialogue box like this

click on upload files and it will ask you where they are by saying browse.
click on that button and a window will come up and there is where you look for your picture to download. Once you find it and it has to be a jpg file... once you find it you click on it and then click open.

The file will be downloaded where your curser is in the post. But it also will be stored in your pictures album on BYC. So you can use it again if you want somewhere else.

Oh and for what its worth when i started out with BYC you couldnt download a picture till you had made ten posts. I dont know if that is still in effect.

By the way WELCOME to BYC

from the San Diego High desert.

deb

 

[peastix]

Ours is almost ready! Move in day is tomorrow- just need the paint to dry a bit more. The girls (7 week old Wyannotes) are more than ready!

So Pretty.How many girls?

 

[PreacherSammy]

I really like your design. Very nice!

 

[Grizzlydude]

I just finished our new coop and run. it is for 18 hens, 2x 2yo and 16x 8 week olds.

 

[yolksonus]

So Pretty.How many girls?

We have 9 girls right now and three will be going to a friend in the next couple of weeks.

 

[smcgill]

 

[lynnehd]

Yes, bent the electrical conduit with a bender and put a coupling in the center. I used a level to make strait and then screwed 2 pipe straps at the bottom of each. Once the hardware cloth is installed the pipe is held stable at the top.

Not to be too dense here, but is that the galvanized metal electric conduit?