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[cabinchicky]

Well. My husband has figured out that we need more coops. He wants to make one 8'x16' next time. I'm going to section off the one we are building now into a brooder/nursery and a 2 section breeder coop. The other half will be for my few silkies and bantams.

When nobody is breeding or broody it will be a good place to store feed.

Ask him to make it wider than 8, you may need it.Think more room for future use.

 

[Sylvester017]

Thank you so much!!!

The Brite Tap combo pkg isn't cheap but we had to decide what chicken expense was the most beneficial to invest in. After dealing with open bowl waterers with wild bird and chicken poops in them and having to change them out 2 and 3x a day we can finally not worry about dirty water or if the hens knocked over a bowl or if the wild birds are mooching or pooping in the water. We like the portability of the jugs and easy to carry to a cleaning station and they can be hung up by the handle in a coop if desired.

 

[TJordan]

Ask him to make it wider than 8, you may need it.Think more room for future use.

I was thinking that but... He says once everything is done our backyard will have 1 8'x8' and 1 8'x16 coop. I might add some easy to build PVC pipe tractors as well

 

[cabinchicky]

I was thinking that but... He says once everything is done our backyard will have 1 8'x8' and 1 8'x16 coop. I might add some easy to build PVC pipe tractors as well

Well maybe try for another 8x8 after that? Lol! I told my husband no more coops until my Apprenticeship is over, only 3.5 years to go! I could move some into the pole barn, but I really like having them in one part of my yard. Less walking.

 

[TJordan]

Well maybe try for another 8x8 after that? Lol! I told my husband no more coops until my Apprenticeship is over, only 3.5 years to go! I could move some into the pole barn, but I really like having them in one part of my yard. Less walking.

but those things are HEAVY. if we move in a few years those will be butts to relocate.

Might do a hope coop.

 

[cabinchicky]

hoop coop may be the way to go!I would love to do a greenhouse type coop next go round. Could let em out in it in winter and I can join them and get warm.

 

[TJordan]

hoop coop may be the way to go!I would love to do a greenhouse type coop next go round. Could let em out in it in winter and I can join them and get warm.

Yep.
Oh I saw someone took hula hoops for framework for a tractor/run. They cut them in half and zip tied hardware cloth around them. A few pieces of PVC pipe held the hoops apart and in place. Simple, light weight and if I can run it to a simple box coop I would have a nice small breed coop/run.

 

[Spartan22]

[COLOR=333333]I had to get my three Golden Comets and five Black Stars out of my house! Chick dust everywhere. So I put the Juvie coop together without any real plan. I knew I wanted vinyl flooring to pull out and clean, suspended cooler with waterer nipples, hanging heat lamp and pvc feeder. It came together fairly easily. The girls are four weeks and five weeks old. They will stay in there till they get closer to the same size as my existing flock. Until then, they will have to verbally and visually figure out peaking order. Only thing I need to add are some slats/stairs for them to get in and out. The coop is four foot by five foot. Lastly, a word of warning, if you've never used corrugated sheet metal, the stuff will cut you by just looking at it.[/COLOR]

Ha ha ha, I've used those corrugated metal for raised garden boxes, inspired by my building the coop, was sharp I had to use winter work gloves to handle them.

 

[TJordan]

Ha ha ha, I've used those corrugated metal for raised garden boxes, inspired by my building the coop, was sharp I had to use winter work gloves to handle them.

Metal can be SHARP!!!! I know.

 

[ShrekDawg]

O ok I know how to do that i am in one of the smarter classes at school and I was in strodes mills elementary grades 1-3. Then there was the middle school that was grades 4-9 and now they built this huge high school and joined all the schools in the area together and now the old high school is now the middle school for 6-7 grade 900 some kids so over crowded. I like the school I just don't like some of the teachers there. And so now he whole school district goes from different elementary schools then the intermediate school and then the middle school then the junior high and then the high school. So basically we change schools every two years when we start in the intermediate through junior high at mifflin county school district we were thinking about switching schools.

That sure does make it hard to gain any stability Roada!

That sounds horrible!

Ours is pre school through second grade (so Pre K, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd), then the other elementary school is 3-5, then middle school is 6-8 and high school is 9-12. But when my brother was in middle school it used to be 5th grade too I think. And now last year or the year before they finished a huge new combinded middle and high school and tore down the old high school and middle school. They put sports fields in the old high school and build where the middle school was, across the street. I think the middle and high school are still seperate and have different entrances on opposite sides of the building but they share the gym, library, and cafeteria I think. But fortunately we all graduated well before the new school (Myself in 2012, my older brother 2009, and my other brother 2014) because I heard the new school is horrible. We got to see plans, they displayed them for years before. It looks like a hotel and they don't even have their own rooms I don't think, the teachers have to wheel carts around. One of the good parts was how the teachers decorate their own roms, this sounds so sterile. No desks either I dont think, a couple tables with a hole in the middle. Think they also gave everyone macs the last few years to,use and homework is online and you used to have to give them back but they just changed it where you can keep them. It's all just so dumb.

My class was only 200 or 300 something though so we're smaller but still.

Its all dumb.

But anyways, this is honestly really basic.

You don't even need to do it in your head or by any method taught. I to this day can't do multiplication and division in my head or even on paper and I took FOREVER to learn the multiplication chart and still can't. Plus I know many schools now teach algebra and other really complicated things really early now. But anyway, so even if you know how to do nothing, if you have a calculator you can do anything. And if you have a computer or phone there is a calculator there. Open the calculator. Type in 36x100 or 4x8 or whatevrr (hit the appropriate symbol) and there is your answer. Takes 2 seconds.