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Trimurtisan
Flying by the seat of my pants!
Yeehaw y'all!
This is one section of the pin I'm working on. The back wall was just temporary to hold the ducks.
This is the temp "wall' and will actually be a door to the other half. It will be where the roost and feeders go, and will have solid walls.
When I say half, I'm referring to the 2 office tables being used for frames/roofs. They measure 27"H 23"D & 57"L. In between those I'm building a frame that will have a top hatch style door. The frame will extend the length by 7'. The total foot print should be 11'x 5' minus a couple of inches.
The top hatch door is a 57"² (exact same as the tables) chainlink fence gate. I cut the post down, turned the hinges to 90°. When the center frame is done I'll get u-bolts and place it in the middle. With it being so short, I'll at least have a large access point for maintaining.
There is currently a door on the side of the pin in the first picture. I'll also have a small one on the other side. It's going to have 4 doors in total. Should be easy to access any party of it.
Once the 55 Flowery are grown out, I'll breakdown their pin and add it to this one. The general idea would be to just stack the tables and raise the height up to around 6'. I want to be able to walk inside it, sit down, hang out...
Oh yeah, if your still following along... I bid on those bantam Polish. I'll explain that in another post. All hail chicken math!
This is one section of the pin I'm working on. The back wall was just temporary to hold the ducks.
This is the temp "wall' and will actually be a door to the other half. It will be where the roost and feeders go, and will have solid walls.
When I say half, I'm referring to the 2 office tables being used for frames/roofs. They measure 27"H 23"D & 57"L. In between those I'm building a frame that will have a top hatch style door. The frame will extend the length by 7'. The total foot print should be 11'x 5' minus a couple of inches.
The top hatch door is a 57"² (exact same as the tables) chainlink fence gate. I cut the post down, turned the hinges to 90°. When the center frame is done I'll get u-bolts and place it in the middle. With it being so short, I'll at least have a large access point for maintaining.
There is currently a door on the side of the pin in the first picture. I'll also have a small one on the other side. It's going to have 4 doors in total. Should be easy to access any party of it.
Once the 55 Flowery are grown out, I'll breakdown their pin and add it to this one. The general idea would be to just stack the tables and raise the height up to around 6'. I want to be able to walk inside it, sit down, hang out...
Oh yeah, if your still following along... I bid on those bantam Polish. I'll explain that in another post. All hail chicken math!
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Reading descriptions, there where a few people mention "NOT bantam x LF." 
They made sure to let me know they bred true for size. So there's that... If I win and hatch frizzle girls, they'll join the bantam flock.
So we're going to see about expanding our chicken coop so we can accommodate some more laying hens. If I could get something together before the lake county fair, maybe I can go and purchase a couple of hens to get our order situation under control.
