Technical coop building question.

[Ridgerunner]

I personally don’t see a problem with an 11” x 13”. As I said, I’ve had a Midget Turkey use a 12” x 12” with no problems. That turkey was bigger than any of your chickens will be.

I’m usually an advocate for making things bigger than the absolute minimum. I do not consider 11x13 minimum, by the way. But one reason you use a pop door instead of a human sized door is to help keep rain and snow out. The bigger you make it the more weather you might let in.

 

[aart]

I personally don’t see a problem with an 11” x 13”. As I said, I’ve had a Midget Turkey use a 12” x 12” with no problems. That turkey was bigger than any of your chickens will be.

I’m usually an advocate for making things bigger than the absolute minimum. I do not consider 11x13 minimum, by the way. But one reason you use a pop door instead of a human sized door is to help keep rain and snow out. The bigger you make it the more weather you might let in.

Agrees, 11x13 is fine.
Both mine are covered from weather by awnings.
One even has a wind block/foyer made of window panels because it faces our prevailing winds.

 

[ScottandSam]

I maybe reading ever thing wrong here. I have a chicken door @12"x12" and then a poop door 10"x 30". The chicken don't use the poop door they use there chicken door. We simple use the human door and pop door to clean the coop out. So they may be open a whole 15 mins every few days.

I was thinking of elongating the poop door since it is below the roost, where the most poop is. Then I could open this whole space and just drag out the straw with the most poop on it, shut door and add a little more straw under the roost.

Scott

 

[aart]

I maybe reading ever thing wrong here. I have a chicken door @12"x12" and then a pop door 10"x 30". The chicken don't use the pop door they use there chicken door. We simple use the human door and pop door to clean the coop out. So they may be open a whole 15 mins every few days.

I was thinking of elongating the pop door since it is below the roost, where the most pop is. Then I could open this whole space and just drag out the straw with the most pop on it, shut door and add a little more straw under the roost.

Scott

'pop door' is the term most often used for where chickens go in and out of the coop.

 

[ScottandSam]

Quote:
I knew I was reading wrong .I edited my post above to correct what I meant. poop not pop. I need to slow down typing and reading. LOL. I have been calling them a poop door a human door and the chicken door. Lol. I guess I don't have a chicken door but a pop door.


Scott

 

[TalkALittle]

'pop door' is the term most often used for where chickens go in and out of the coop.

"Pop door" doesn't show up anywhere but in reference to chicken coops when you do an internet search on the term.

I've got two theories as to its origins. The first is that it developed as an onomatopoeic phrase to describe how the chickens practically explode out of the door when it's opened in the morning.

The second theory is that it is a shortened version of "pop up" door. Remember those pop-up books we all had as children where, if you pulled a tab on the side of the page, a door or flap would open revealing another illustration.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents on it.

 

[aart]

Quote: If you add 'chicken' to the search term 'pop door' you'll get lots of hits.
One of those cultural colloquialisms.

Agrees it's the chickens popping out the door that influenced the coinage.

 

[TalkALittle]

If you add 'chicken' to the search term 'pop door' you'll get lots of hits.
One of those cultural colloquialisms.

Agrees it's the chickens popping out the door that influenced the coinage.

Oh yes, you get tons of hits with or without the inclusion of the word chicken, but they are all in reference to little chicken doors. So it would seem that "pop door" isn't used for anything outside of chickenkeeping.

 

[aart]

Quote: True Dat...wonder how many other words are only used in one single context......
.....but I digress from the OP's topic at hand, we could go way down the 'rabbit hole' with that-haha!

 

[Merrymouse]

Ok, dog shows are over now back to coop building. Kind of rainy yucky today so I thought I would attempt to build the people door to the run in the garage. But then I realized I have no idea how to make a door. So I dont have a kreg jig to countersink the screws so can I just toenail the joints, should I do 45 mitre cuts for the corners or should I just make square corners?

I bought 1x3 strapping for the screen doors because it was inexpensive and lightweight. They had better top choice 1x3 but is was 5 times the price. Will this be ok?

Also a question about the hardware cloth. My intention was to attach it to the wood frame using screw/washer method then have it sandwiched between another piece of lumber. This was very expensive and I could not find a good screw/washer combination last night at lowes with two employees trying to help me so I bought a big box of plastic cap roofing nails. Will this work? Could I just use staples or U nails if Im going to sandwich the cloth between two pieces of lumber? I want it to be safe for my chickens so I'd rather do it right initially.

Lots of questions today....thank you in advance for your continued help.