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IvyBeans
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Do you have any drawings or photos of what this is looking like?
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Do you have any drawings or photos of what this is looking like?
The nests are outside.Are you sure you can't raise that roof another foot?
It's really difficult to get everything stacked up in less than about 4 feet of vertical space:
- Floor with 4-6 inches of bedding
- Nests, which are at least a foot tall, with their bottoms above the max height of the bedding
- Roost above the nest,
- Chicken on roost about 10-14" tall when sitting down (roosters may be larger).
- Vents above the top of the roosting chickens' comb.
We don’t have space for deep bedding. Planning on 3 inches or so of horse stall pellets.What is your plan for material on the floor?
I'm having a hard envisioning how you will access the coop. My coop is a little bit smaller than yours and I have easy access to all of it. I have about an inch of SweetPDZ on the bottom of it. The floor of the coop is a giant poop board. If you were to do something like this, you can lower the roost to about 4-6" above the floor. (That could risk troubles with proper use of the next box.)
If you go with deep bedding, that gets deeper as you go on and would make a super-low roost problematic.
In our climate, it rarely gets below freezing even at night. So I’m trying to shift the focus to staying dry.
I don’t think we can do an open coop because it rains so much.If that is the case then you do indeed have more flexibility.
10F in Central North Carolina in an Open Air Coop
The Queens Have Conceded ...
Open Air Coop in the Snow
Some of my experience with an open air coop in North Carolina's version of winter.
I don’t think we can do an open coop because it rains so much.