post your chicken coop pictures here!

[TJordan]

Congrats TJ! You need some feel good events.

Thanks. My 3rd just zipped.

 

[Red Banks]

Sure it did Patty, uh huh.

How old are they?

Coop and grow out pen look great for your climate.

Thank you. This group of Biels are now grown and so beautiful,.. 5 months. I have new chicks coming next week, 9 more Biels and some BCMs. I have 13 BCM, 1 Biel and 15 Ams in the grow out pen right now. Yes...... I like the open coops. The grow out coop has tarps and heat lamps when necessary.

I start a new coop next week. Never enough chickens means never enough coops!

 

[bruceha2000]

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Given the tragedies that have befallen some, you might want to rethink those.

 

[gpeters3]

Got started today, drilled one hole, hit my sewer pipe on the second, hit a rock on the third and all the way on the fourth. Used one man ice auger, broke the safety handle.off and sprained my elbow and then it started raining. Drilled the last hole in the rain. Saturday i'll rent the proper auger (on a cart) and finish all the holes. I did buy another post so i can set up a 4' sliding barn door. I'll hand dig the sewer pipe hole and back fill all holes with pea stone (trick i learned on my back deck) pea stone is self compacting and is like cement with no tamping. Great stuff

 

[perchie.girl]

Got started today, drilled one hole, hit my sewer pipe on the second, hit a rock on the third and all the way on the fourth. Used one man ice auger, broke the safety handle.off and sprained my elbow and then it started raining. Drilled the last hole in the rain. Saturday i'll rent the proper auger (on a cart) and finish all the holes. I did buy another post so i can set up a 4' sliding barn door. I'll hand dig the sewer pipe hole and back fill all holes with pea stone (trick i learned on my back deck) pea stone is self compacting and is like cement with no tamping. Great stuff

Oh my goodness

sorry for laughing... but I been there done that....

 

[Red Banks]

Got started today, drilled one hole, hit my sewer pipe on the second, hit a rock on the third and all the way on the fourth. Used one man ice auger, broke the safety handle.off and sprained my elbow and then it started raining. Drilled the last hole in the rain. Saturday i'll rent the proper auger (on a cart) and finish all the holes. I did buy another post so i can set up a 4' sliding barn door. I'll hand dig the sewer pipe hole and back fill all holes with pea stone (trick i learned on my back deck) pea stone is self compacting and is like cement with no tamping. Great stuff

Sounds like you are off to a good start!

 

[gpeters3]

Sounds like you are off to a good start!  

Elbow is feeling better already, no serious damage i guess Hope the pipe isnt damaged.

 

[bruceha2000]

Got started today, drilled one hole, hit my sewer pipe on the second, hit a rock on the third and all the way on the fourth. Used one man ice auger, broke the safety handle.off and sprained my elbow and then it started raining. Drilled the last hole in the rain. Saturday i'll rent the proper auger (on a cart) and finish all the holes. I did buy another post so i can set up a 4' sliding barn door. I'll hand dig the sewer pipe hole and back fill all holes with pea stone (trick i learned on my back deck) pea stone is self compacting and is like cement with no tamping. Great stuff

Dare I ask WHY you are going to drill another hole into your sewer pipe??

OK, I ASSUME you don't actually plan to drill into the sewer pipe but I would not choose to place a post on top of a sewer pipe at all. I think I would redesign the run to miss the pipe by some distance. And where is your water line? Any underground utilities? Might want to check all those things before you hit it with the power auger.

 

[McKinneyMike]

Got the holes bored for the covered run/run area today. Tomorrow start setting posts and mixing concrete. The covered section of the run will be 8x12 and the uncovered area will be 12x12.

Built a ramp to allow chicks to get access to roost yesterday. Slowly coming together. The girls are not sleeping on the roost yet. I was hoping that the ramp would entice them to get up there easier. They explore up there, but are still all huddling into a corner every night on the coop floor.

 

[bruceha2000]

Nice work Mike! They will figure out the roost thing eventually.