Walking The Plank

[Booswalia]

Hello fellow chicken people.

I'm about to build the plank for the chickens to enter and exit their coop by. The bottom of the pop door is about 2 1/2 feet off the ground. I have a 5 foot plank that would do nicely but I think it might be too steep. What do you "builders" out there think?

 

[Master S.M.C]

make it long and try to angle it to touch the ground if its to steep

 

[jjdward]

I'm not sure how old you chickens are but they should do okay with that set up. Mine usually just jump/fly even though they have a ramp that is not even close to steep.

 

[sillybirds]

I'd try the 5' plank you have. I think if you have adequate cross pieces on it, it'll be ok. If not you could just set the end away from the pop door up on a block or something. As they are birds, and can hop/fly, it's not like it has to be wheel-chair accessible

. My pop door is about 3 1/2' above the ground, so I have an 8' 4X4 with cross pieces nailed to it extending from the coop to a post about 7' away. It gets them to within about 2' of the ground. They hop up and down to it no problem.

 

[Booswalia]

Thanks. Yes, I hadn't thought to sit the end on a block. That will work just fine.

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