post your chicken coop pictures here!

[perchie.girl]

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yes and the best long term results you should pull that fence tight.

 

[cabinchicky]

Well heck it's a normal post for pasture! I may have went full crazy chicken lady mode planning my runs.

So did i??Lolololol!

 

[perchie.girl]

Well heck it's a normal post for pasture! I may have went full crazy chicken lady mode planning my runs.So did i??Lolololol!

LOL.... you did tooo..... but I like the looks of yours better.

Mine will be Tpost with wooden horizontals and Wire....

deb

 

[cabinchicky]

wooden horizontals post to post here too. the middle of the original run had to have support posts run down the center. we covered the top, sides and bottom outside edge with all welded wire. Both coops built from landscape timbers to match our cabin. That was not my idea but he insisted so "Ok Dear." Talk about learning experience. We used come a long to help tighten fence then stapled the crap out of it.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Yes to hold up the chicken wire in my run I have a big long stick to hold it up nice and tight and when it gets windy I take the stick out so its lower to the ground and inside the walls of the run so it don't swing or sway or anything

 

[bigmrg74]

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.

You're in Wisconsin right? You probably should be burying the end of the wooden posts deeper, under your local frost line. where I'm at in SE Michigan its 42 inches, might be deeper where you're at in Wisconsin.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Kept mine REAL simple....In Hawaii the only big worry is RAIN! Hence the shower curtain all the way around.
Added the roost over the "house" with poop board Works great! They sleep there & the other roost are used during the day. House I'm hoping they use for nesting, so far they've explored it. They love sitting in the tray under the house, my intention was dust bath. They grub the (fenced) yard when I'm home & we just strung up a roll of bird netting (hawk prevention) over the Ti Leaf plants where they hang out when not in the patio.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Kept mine REAL simple....In Hawaii the only big worry is RAIN! Hence the shower curtain all the way around. Added the roost over the "house" with poop board Works great! They sleep there & the other roost are used during the day. House I'm hoping they use for nesting, so far they've explored it. They love sitting in the tray under the house, my intention was dust bath. They grub the (fenced) yard when I'm home & we just strung up a roll of bird netting (hawk prevention) over the Ti Leaf plants where they hang out when not in the patio.

Love it!! Looks so simple yet so cute at the same time!! Your birds are pretty too and very cute

 

[MeepBeep]

House I'm hoping they use for nesting, so far they've explored it.

It could be a roll of the dice on that, as they might find it too big and open, some birds like a tighter more private space to lay, others don't care only time will tell but you might consider offering them a smaller 2nd option, especially with 4 (or more) birds since some also don't like to share...

 

[perchie.girl]

Kept mine REAL simple....In Hawaii the only big worry is RAIN! Hence the shower curtain all the way around.
Added the roost over the "house" with poop board Works great! They sleep there & the other roost are used during the day. House I'm hoping they use for nesting, so far they've explored it. They love sitting in the tray under the house, my intention was dust bath. They grub the (fenced) yard when I'm home & we just strung up a roll of bird netting (hawk prevention) over the Ti Leaf plants where they hang out when not in the patio.

love love love it..... and a shower curtain too.... VBG.

Oh and to combat the damp you should be able to get rice hulls in Hawaii. I find them excellent for water wicking away from the surface. They have tasty bits in them the chickens go after and give the bedding a good stir. Id pile the whole bag in the middle and by the end of the day it was nice and flat and evenly spread about. Gives em something to do...


deb