UPDATE: It's done!! Pictures!

[Pittboss]

Looks very classy, i like it

 

[ebonykawai]

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Thanks, my mind is changed!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

really awesome!! lucky chicks!

 

[GloriaH]

WOW!

 

[skatcatla]

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Yes its called Lap siding (?) and it was $21.95 a panel at Home Depot. It took three panels to build this 4 x 5 x 5 foot coop, so it was the most expensive part. All together the materials were about $265.

 

[skatcatla]

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thanks Carla! Yes I can paint it straight away (well as soon as these awful rain storms are over!). And yes, the red seems to be hands down the winner in my informal poll.

 

[skatcatla]

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Actually no! Although it is sort of modeled on the Ware chick-n-pen, which I had with my first coop, the chick-n-hutch. I didn't like the pen though, it was pretty rickety and too small, so my husband and I built this one a few months ago. It works pretty well, although of course now I wish I had made it at least a foot wider. Isn't that always the way though?

 

[crysmom]

The coop looks great congrats!

 

[okto]

what do you use for flooring in the run? looks like wire

 

[skatcatla]

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Yes, the run is actually open on the bottom but I put a layer loose roll of 1/2 hardware cloth underneath to keep critters from digging in. Then I cover the bottom with a couple of inches of bark chip mulch so the girls have a nice surface to walk on. It lasts a long time, requires almost no maintenance and doesn't get muddy!