My wonderful and patient husband and I finally finished the chicken coop! Well, I should say it's 98% done. We've got to add roosts and I've got to finish staining the green roof...
Anyhow, we live in south Texas about 10 miles from the coast. That translates to "incredibly hot and humid." It only gets below freezing *maybe* 6 days a year. So that's why we chose to design the coop the way we did. In the end it will hold ~6 chickens. Feel free to give feedback, but please pull punches because we busted our butts in the smoldering heat to build it!
-Dimensions
8' long
4' wide
4' tall
-Nesting boxes are 16" all around
-Green roof planted with Asian Jasmine
- Temp shown in picture taken during the hottest part of the day today (humidity was way lower in box than in outside air!)
-Powdery stuff is DE... trying to get a jump-start on nasty critters. Chicks will be in coop the beginning of August
- Food/Water will be hung from front support beam
view inside the coop
egg doors and other access doors
view inside nest box
underneath nest boxes
Anyhow, we live in south Texas about 10 miles from the coast. That translates to "incredibly hot and humid." It only gets below freezing *maybe* 6 days a year. So that's why we chose to design the coop the way we did. In the end it will hold ~6 chickens. Feel free to give feedback, but please pull punches because we busted our butts in the smoldering heat to build it!
-Dimensions
8' long
4' wide
4' tall
-Nesting boxes are 16" all around
-Green roof planted with Asian Jasmine
- Temp shown in picture taken during the hottest part of the day today (humidity was way lower in box than in outside air!)
-Powdery stuff is DE... trying to get a jump-start on nasty critters. Chicks will be in coop the beginning of August
- Food/Water will be hung from front support beam
view inside the coop
egg doors and other access doors
view inside nest box
underneath nest boxes
