The building of... {no name yet} - let the *fun* begin! VERY pic heavy!

[jbher]

This is Charlotte, my gold laced English orp. She's only 3 1/2mo's old and she's huge!! She's queen of the coop

Stella is the salmon faverolle in the background. She's 2nd in command

 

[RandomChicken]

Just found your coop page! OMG I am SO jealous. This is so awesomely cool I can hardly stand it.

 

[jbher]

Just found your coop page!  OMG I am SO jealous.  This is so awesomely cool I can hardly stand it.

Oh you're so sweet - thank you!!!

 

[Jetpad]

Great job on the coop. Love the colors you picked.

 

[aart]

Ohhhhh...... so this the coop that poop board is in!!!

That is one wonderful coop!

 

[jbher]

Great job on the coop. Love the colors you picked.

Thank you! I'm very happy with how they turned out.

Ohhhhh...... so this the coop that poop board is in!!!

That is one wonderful coop!

It is!! Thank you!! I'll have to update some pics too - I've added the waterer and swing! Ridge vent was also put on finally

 

[jbher]

Hi All! Wanted to come back to my old thread to update you on changes I’ve made over the years. Last fall I changed the roost set up and poop board.
Other than that the coop has served us well! I pop out our hardware cloth screens every year to clean with hot soapy water and I take all windows off to do the same. This summer I need to sand and repaint the door and the exterior of the coop needs a good cleaning. We moved our original garden fence over to make a bigger exterior run area for the chickens too. I’ll be adding chicken wire to the top this spring so they stop hopping over it.

 

[jbher]

Last one of the girls roosting. Have an incubator full right now for spring chicks

The sweeter heaters are only turned on when air temps are below -10f. And I remove them after winter. They don’t stay in the coop otherwise.

 

[aart]

Thanks for the update!!

The sweeter heaters are only turned on when air temps are below -10f.

Do they ever try to get on top of them?

 

[jbher]

Thanks for the update!!

Do they ever try to get on top of them?

They don't actually! If they did they'd fall off because they hang from chains and aren't stable at all.