Do you have a place for storing your feed already ?this might be the place, my dh made a small room off the goose shed so i can keep my feed in garbage cans in there plus some of my chicken equipment. works great. Will move my ff out there in warm months.My husband is giving me 2/3 of an old garage turned greenhouse turned into a garage again for my chicken coop. So far, he plans to frame the open end with a full sized door. We have an old door from when the house flooded that he will put in there. Maybe. Or he can make a door. He did that when he built the mobile coop. Regardless, it will have a full sized door. LOL I need to be able to move around in there, etc.
Other than that, he just planning on putting up roosts and nesting boxes. Nothing fancy. If you had this kind of space, what would you do with it. His time is limited, so I also need to be mindful of his time. He gets two days off a week, but one of those days is often filled with work stuff.He is not usually available to work on it after work as his schedule is very varied. I can do a few things, but I'm really unhandy.
We have 9 chickens right now. Two are baby cockerels that will probably be culled when they start to crow, unless someone wants them for a breeding program. I expect to get a few more chickens as we get closer to spring. I'd like to have about 20, but his number is 12. We will have an outdoor run outside of the garage. I'm thinking of a pop up door, but we'll see what he ends up getting me.
The garage has two slabs of concrete for car tires. The rest of it is gravel over the slab. There is a 2-3 foot brick base. Some of it is falling apart. The rest is framed with metal covering. It has a metal roof. The eaves look like they can be opened and we plan to open them and put hardware wire over them for ventilation. Will get some pics for you later, but would like to know your opinions. We don't need anything fancy, but we also would like to make it as serviceable as possible.
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