Second-floor chicken coop in my barn

[redoak]

Cool idea, wonder if my wife would allow me to keep chickens in our house attic

 

[patandchickens]

LOL -- that is just too cool. I am seriously impressed. Wow. Neat!

Pat

 

[chickiebaby]

okay, that is majorly cute. and smart. Can you get someone to shoot some video of them going in and out?

btw I love Montpelier. How great.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

I love it.

A nice way to make some space for chickens.

 

[vermontgal]

Thanks for the compliments.

Sara, there is a door for the open window pane. Otherwise the chickens would fly out whenever they wanted (They are only allowed to be out when I am home). So, that should keep the owls out.

Lee, the barn is not post and beam, I think it's balloon frame. My house is post & beam, though. (My house is older - c.1855.)

It seems to be working out pretty well. The chickens seem to like the elevation. When I first put them up there, I didn't have the 8-pane window in place yet - I just had a removable screen across the whole window. I would put the chicken ladder up, and take out the screen. But they would ignore the ladder. They would just jump out the window -- and crash! I think that is why they are called Barred Rocks. They fly -- a little like a rock. Thud.

Now that the ladder is directly in front of the "door" they are better at using it.

The platform they hop up to is about 5' off the ground, and this seems doable for them, both up and down.

 

[WA23]

Very nice. That sure looks like quite the gauntlet just to get too their quarters.

What breed is the one standing on the table?

 

[Lee]

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Hmmm, balloon frame, intersting. I'll have to google that one. And an 1855 built home? They srue built them to last. Like some I've seen on This Old House.

 

[miron28]

That is awesome love the idea!

 

[vermontgal]

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That's a pure-bred Easter Egger. http://www.eastereggers.com/

Unlike many of you who have Easter Eggers who were sold to you as Ameraucanas, mine was sold to me as a Rhode Island Red.

 

[hennypenny9]

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That's a pure-bred Easter Egger. http://www.eastereggers.com/

Unlike many of you who have Easter Eggers who were sold to you as Ameraucanas, mine was sold to me as a Rhode Island Red.

Interesting. I didn't know there was such a thing as a pure-bread EE. I thought they were all "mutts" But I'm very new so bear with me!

http://www.mypetchicken.com/Easter_Eggers-B145.aspx

Anyway, your barn hen house is amazing! Chickens always like to roost high, and you made in HAPPEN.