post your chicken coop pictures here!

[bruceha2000]

Well she sits in e bath tub all day and drinks water from the thing and I don't know if she is diabetic and she is about 4-5 years old

Take her to the vet, Then expect to have a high insulin bill.

 

[Paganrose]

Here Is my coop! It is a re-purposed corn crib section of our barn.
This is the view looking in from the door inside the Barn.

The floor is 6'x16'
The west exterior side, and the wall behind the camera has been covered with osb to prevent drafts. There are a couple of windows on the west wall for light and vent.
The east (slanted) wall is still the corn crib slat wall-there is a 1" gap between all the boards, and overlooks the sheep pen.
The south wall has a door that leads out to the sheep pen for easy cleaning, along with 2 windows covered with hardware cloth (and currently plastic) for light and extra vent during the warm season.
I has a ceiling made of re-purposed metal roofing to keep the coons out.

You can just see the edge of our poo shelf, roosts, and ladder leading up. Underneath there is 3'x7' brooder section.



Currently there is a low roost on the far end for baby chickies to use, but eventually will replace with nest boxes in that general area.
Still needs some parts painted. But most of the materials are scraps or reused. I think we only bought one sheet of osb and the boards to redo the far door.
We are also going to relocate the pop door to the area under the ladder. Just waiting for the ground to thaw so we can get our run constructed.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I thought that this was supposed to be a coop building thread??  

I agree. We all go off topic once in a while but I do think this should get back to a coop building thread.

I do agree too but I think the only reason it got off topic was because it was inactive and no one was coming in and posting coops, if someone had wanted to we would have gladly gone back and still will but personally I'm having fun

 

[ShrekDawg]

Here Is my coop! It is a re-purposed corn crib section of our barn. This is the view looking in from the door inside the Barn. The floor is 6'x16' The west exterior side, and the wall behind the camera has been covered with osb to prevent drafts. There are a couple of windows on the west wall for light and vent. The east (slanted) wall is still the corn crib slat wall-there is a 1" gap between all the boards, and overlooks the sheep pen. The south wall has a door that leads out to the sheep pen for easy cleaning, along with 2 windows covered with hardware cloth (and currently plastic) for light and extra vent during the warm season. I has a ceiling made of re-purposed metal roofing to keep the coons out. You can just see the edge of our poo shelf, roosts, and ladder leading up. Underneath there is 3'x7' brooder section. Currently there is a low roost on the far end for baby chickies to use, but eventually will replace with nest boxes in that general area. [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] Still needs some parts painted. But most of the materials are scraps or reused. I think we only bought one sheet of osb and the boards to redo the far door. We are also going to relocate the pop door to the area under the ladder. Just waiting for the ground to thaw so we can get our run constructed.

Looks awesome!!

 

[cabinchicky]

Paganrose, very nice! I am jealous. My husband wouldn't let me have part of our 130' long barn for chickens. I do have two awesome coops though to make up for it.Good luck on the run build and I hope you have a post hole digger for a 3 point hitch.

 

[Paganrose]

Paganrose, very nice! I am jealous. My husband wouldn't let me have part of our 130' long barn for chickens. I do have two awesome coops though to make up for it.Good luck on the run build and I hope you have a post hole digger for a 3 point hitch.

We have Manuel post hole digger. Hubby used it to put in all the post fort the sheep fence. But we are going to be using T poles for the run. We still plan on free ranging mostly, but plan to build a run for when we are not around.

We had an incident when the coons literally broke boards to get in the coop while we were on vacation last winter, We lost the whole flock. So we completely revamped it. Replaced boards, lined more of the coop, along with rearranging everything to work better.

 

[cabinchicky]

I will need to look up T poles. We were lucky to get some old telephone poles to use for our run. We got them from a co worker two years ago used all but 5 until last year's expansion. Good luck building! Oh and we were gifted a post hole digger by a brother in law. it's old and takes 3 of us to keep it straight but it works.

 

[MeepBeep]

I will need to look up T poles. We were lucky to get some old telephone poles to use for our run. We got them from a co worker two years ago used all but 5 until last year's expansion. Good luck building! Oh and we were gifted a post hole digger by a brother in law. it's old and takes 3 of us to keep it straight but it works.

T-post and a hand driver will save you a bunch of hassle on field fencing, plus they are low cost... You only need 3 real fence post to make the corners (if you plan to pull it tight) when using T-post for the run, in many cases it saves a lot of hole digging... If you don't plan to pull it tight you can T-post the entire thing...

 

[perchie.girl]

I will need to look up T poles. We were lucky to get some old telephone poles to use for our run. We got them from a co worker two years ago used all but 5 until last year's expansion. Good luck building! Oh and we were gifted a post hole digger by a brother in law. it's old and takes 3 of us to keep it straight but it works.

TPosts are awesome... Here pasture fence is run a hundred feet with Tpost and reinforced with a Timber post. on each end.

TPost come in varying sizes.



You drive them in with a post driver no digging.




example of fence using them



timber posts are used when there may be animals pushing on the fence.... Like Cows and horses.. Or if your soil is soft.

deb

 

[Paganrose]

T poles are the metal poles. I would always get the heaviest ones you can afford. The ultra cheap ones are thin and will bend easily. T-pole wont always save you money. It depends on what you are using T poles for. I have an Icelandic ram that is notorious for pushing up against fence and poles. T-pole will eventulay bend or be pushed out of the ground in our wet spring. For the sheep pens we use wooden poles buried at least 3'.

However for chicken/coon preventing T-pole are fine.