post your chicken coop pictures here!

[perchie.girl]

Added some windows with hardware cloth over the cut outs. Still have to add the trim around the right door window but I ran out of daylight. Also added my nest box to the side of the coop and my automatic water.

Love the night lights really shows how much ventilation you have....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Added some windows with hardware cloth over the cut outs. Still have to add the trim around the right door window but I ran out of daylight. Also added my nest box to the side of the coop and my automatic water.

Love the night lights really shows how much ventilation you have....

deb

Quote:
they are real
http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=57236

Hunted for meat in Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Amazon and Columbia

deb

 

[ShrekDawg]

Love the night lights really shows how much ventilation you have....

deb


they are real
http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=57236

Hunted for meat in Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Amazon and Columbia

deb

Wow that's great to know! They are beautiful birds!

And sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were wrong or anything, I realized after I said that that your source was also Wikipedia but what I meant was when I first heard it I found and read the wiki page too and its a coincidence your link happened to be that cause i didn't mean to offend and yeah haha sorry that probably doesn't make sense

Anyway, i googled it more myself after and found more scientific articles plus your links so guess it's real

Even the wiki page is too detailed to be faked

 

[DaddyMcChicken]

Love the night lights really shows how much ventilation you have....

deb

Here in Louisiana with temps in the mid 90's I had to add some ventilation. They do free range most days but if for some reason I'm unable to let them out of the coop, I wanted to make sure they would be ok. Looking into some other things I can do to cool it down even more. I watched a youtube video where a guy made a portable A/C unit with basic materials he had lying around his garage. He put it in the inside of his truck bed thats covered with a camper top and dropped the temperature by 20 degrees. From 104 degrees to 84 degrees. Dont know if its gonna be practical for my situation but I am looking into it.

 

[Spartan22]

Successfully integrate the young ones with 2 year olds & 1 year olds since Sunday. Taken down all the barriers and chicken wire walls that separate them for a month. The 18 wk olds are starting to lay eggs, couple of days ago, since the integration.

 

[bruceha2000]

Thanks for the info!! Very interesting. Being new to this it is pretty amazing how many breeds or sort of but not exactly breeds that there are. My mother in law was amazed to find out that all chickens aren't white.

Heck even my White Rocks are not white! They are a nice shade of "dust bath brown" in many areas.

 

[bigmrg74]

You could get some rubber tubing from lowes and put the wire through the tubing.

Yeah, I have Hardware cloth over the cattle panels and that's what the tarp is rubbing on. Although I did have a thought of using some old junk hoses and using that to keep the tarp and eventually plastic from rubbing.

You might check out a place that fixes motorhomes. They may have old awnings they would let you have for free or at a cheap price. Pull apart salvages sometimes have motorhomes too.

There is that thought as well. I could cut some strips of the awning up and stitch them together, give me that buffer between the hardwear cloth and the tarp that I would want.

 

[Athaid]

Then there is the Rare Tinamou yep they are real and the bird is too.
bird

and yep the eggs are that shiny

deb

Wow that's unreal, truly beautiful.

 

[Intheswamp]

Added some windows with hardware cloth over the cut outs. Still have to add the trim around the right door window but I ran out of daylight. Also added my nest box to the side of the coop and my automatic water.

DMc, I like your coop. What size is it? How many chickens? Is that recycled pallet wood?...if so, that's a great repurposing of it!...and if not, still a great job!

Personally, and this is *me* speaking and not intended as a negative critique, I would make those two windows larger...even to the point of joining them together...studs being visible would be fine and would give somewhere to fasten the hardware cloth to. Being over in southern LA you have much similar heat and humidity as we do here in south Alabama.

Also, the roof in a raised coop is closer to the chickens than the roof of a walk-in coop. The sun can heat that metal roof up pretty hot. You might consider attaching some pieces of 1/4" plywood between the roof joists to block the radiant heat from the metal roof...leaving a small gap between the roof and the plywood would give a nice channel for the heated air to escape. Some scrap pieces of 2x wood could be attached to the sides of the joists to create a shelf to rest the plywood heat shields on...just slide them in. Just a thought...

Thanks for posting your coop. I've been all over the place trying to figure out what I want to build and how big. I've been all over the place from a 4x8 to an 8x12...more food for thought.

Ed

 

[Tika75]

Yeah, I have Hardware cloth over the cattle panels and that's what the tarp is rubbing on. Although I did have a thought of using some old junk hoses and using that to keep the tarp and eventually plastic from rubbing.

That would work. Cut the ends off, slice the hose through the middle, put it over the top of the hardware cloth, & use nylon cable ties to hold it on.

There is that thought as well. I could cut some strips of the awning up and stitch them together, give me that buffer between the hardwear cloth and the tarp that I would want.

Depending on the size of the awning, you might not have to stitch them together. I was also thinking of using the awning and not using a tarp. Both ways would work though. If someone was able to get the hardware too, they might be able to mount it to he side of a barn to make shade if it was needed too.