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Today was "chicken door" and "roosts" day. I still need to put the latch on the door, but the paint's wet right now.
In my current coop, the ramp itself is the door, and it folds down. That's a huge pain in the butt, so on this coop I decided to make the ramp fixed and have the door swing open. Much nicer to deal with, especially in the rain.
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The roosts in this coop are completely different, too. In the current coop, they're fixed in place, and I bang my head on them all the time. In the new coop, I built movable roosts. These roosts fold up, and aren't mounted to anything at all, so when it's time to clean I can just take them out of the coop. No more head-banging, unless I'm listening to some rock. I also left plenty of room for me to walk around the roosts:
There are 96 feet of roost space on those two stands, and I can up that if I want to by rearranging them and/or making them taller.
So far I'm pretty pleased. The only thing I have left to do is build the nest boxes and storage. I should be able to do a good bit of that after work this week (I think; with the time change it gets dark around 5:00 now).
In my current coop, the ramp itself is the door, and it folds down. That's a huge pain in the butt, so on this coop I decided to make the ramp fixed and have the door swing open. Much nicer to deal with, especially in the rain.
Pics:
The roosts in this coop are completely different, too. In the current coop, they're fixed in place, and I bang my head on them all the time. In the new coop, I built movable roosts. These roosts fold up, and aren't mounted to anything at all, so when it's time to clean I can just take them out of the coop. No more head-banging, unless I'm listening to some rock. I also left plenty of room for me to walk around the roosts:
There are 96 feet of roost space on those two stands, and I can up that if I want to by rearranging them and/or making them taller.
So far I'm pretty pleased. The only thing I have left to do is build the nest boxes and storage. I should be able to do a good bit of that after work this week (I think; with the time change it gets dark around 5:00 now).
