Washingtonians

[lisaheath1]

Hi everyone,

Someone asked me to post pics of my coop when I got done. I am not completely done, but I have gotten a lot of great suggestions from you all. I have raccoon proofed it and learned a lot of coop safety things from this site. So I thank all of you. And here is my coop so far

This was the design I wanted. So I thought I would build my own and make it bigger, as this one was only big enough for 2 birds.


Here's my extra sturdy corners, lol. We get high winds here once in a while and I would hate to have it leaning or fall apart.


We made lots of windows that can be closed up in the winter. And a door on each side for easy cleaning.


We let the chicks check it out and took a break. Coco was chick watching, lol.


Our attempt at roofing, lol. It gets the job done, and it's just for us. It is sturdy!


This is the coop door we rigged up. I just drilled holes to run the string through so we can open and close the door easily. They all go in there at sundown now and we just close the door for them totally secure


another view, oh you can see the tree branch we put in there for the roost, and the door on this side for cleaning.


haha, this is the raccoon proofing that we did before we put the fancy roof on there. sorry its out of order, lol


Here is a nice pic of the inside. The roost is a tree branch the kids brought home one day as a walking stick, but it was huge, so I asked them if I could use it in the coop


Here's a view of the roof. You can see our hardware cloth that we secured for the raccoon proofing again.



The chickies are digging the roost we put in


Put the plywood on the roof. Next comes the shingles, we will get to that soon. Oh and we added some lattice for decoration. Gotta be pretty



So that's what we have so far. The chickies enjoy running around the yard. That 90 degree weather really did a number on our grass. I will have to be watering extra to get it to green up again. And I will be putting in the rest of the raised beds for the garden this fall so we will be ready for planting in the spring. I just do what I can, when I can, because my schedule is so crazy around here. But we are loving the chickies, and the neighbors even think it's cool we have chickens! They are 8wks old tomorrow

and here's the kids holding the chicks


She was all proud of herself, lol. she said Pandora wouldn't calm down so she just flipped her upside down, lol

 

[FlyRobinFly]

I would love to post pics, but I suspect a lot of people would not like to see them.

I post pics sometimes on Facebook, but mostly I am taking pictures of my 2 year old nowadays!

Jennifer

Feel free to PM me any pics, I would enjoy them!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Ok Ok Ok! I'm outta here for now. Before I make anyone too CRODGEDY!!!!

It might be too late, this is a crotchety bunch!

What's scary is I didn't even have to visit anyone to get enabled, incubators, chicks, etc. got DELIVERED to me.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

I currently have 2 blue B Am pullets for sale if you want B's

Thanks CR, but I need the standard size model to fit in with my LF layer flock.

 

[KMHunter]

Hi everyone,

Someone asked me to post pics of my coop when I got done. I am not completely done, but I have gotten a lot of great suggestions from you all. I have raccoon proofed it and learned a lot of coop safety things from this site. So I thank all of you. And here is my coop so far

This was the design I wanted. So I thought I would build my own and make it bigger, as this one was only big enough for 2 birds.


Here's my extra sturdy corners, lol. We get high winds here once in a while and I would hate to have it leaning or fall apart.


We made lots of windows that can be closed up in the winter. And a door on each side for easy cleaning.


We let the chicks check it out and took a break. Coco was chick watching, lol.


Our attempt at roofing, lol. It gets the job done, and it's just for us. It is sturdy!


This is the coop door we rigged up. I just drilled holes to run the string through so we can open and close the door easily. They all go in there at sundown now and we just close the door for them totally secure


another view, oh you can see the tree branch we put in there for the roost, and the door on this side for cleaning.


haha, this is the raccoon proofing that we did before we put the fancy roof on there. sorry its out of order, lol


Here is a nice pic of the inside. The roost is a tree branch the kids brought home one day as a walking stick, but it was huge, so I asked them if I could use it in the coop


Here's a view of the roof. You can see our hardware cloth that we secured for the raccoon proofing again.



The chickies are digging the roost we put in


Put the plywood on the roof. Next comes the shingles, we will get to that soon. Oh and we added some lattice for decoration. Gotta be pretty



So that's what we have so far. The chickies enjoy running around the yard. That 90 degree weather really did a number on our grass. I will have to be watering extra to get it to green up again. And I will be putting in the rest of the raised beds for the garden this fall so we will be ready for planting in the spring. I just do what I can, when I can, because my schedule is so crazy around here. But we are loving the chickies, and the neighbors even think it's cool we have chickens! They are 8wks old tomorrow

and here's the kids holding the chicks


She was all proud of herself, lol. she said Pandora wouldn't calm down so she just flipped her upside down, lol

Really nice coop! And very cute kids!

 

[Chickielady]

All the talk lately about rats, spiders etc came home today. I was working on the deck and one of the outside cats came by crying oddly. I realized he had something in it's mouth, then I saw the tail hanging down. Took a bit to talk Zulukhan into dropping it. I picked it up and realized it was either a baby rat or mouse, freshly killed, still warm and soft. I set it aside and went back to finish the deck. The next door neighbor came by and I wanted to warn him about the critter. I showed it to him and he said it looked like a rat to him. As I was holding it it started moving. I told the neighbor "It's either still alive or full of worms" and "Why am I holding this thing?" As I watched I realized it was 2 bot fly larvae, partway out of the dead body. I quickly sealed it up in a plastic bag and tossed it.

Russ- Ugh!

A couple weeks ago Zulu brought me a mole.

Oh man that is so gross ! Are you kidding me ??????????
So it had bots while still alive ???????????????
I heard that squirrels can have them bad as well, but thought it was in some 3rd world country~~~~~~ugh...my breakfast is wanting to come back up !!!

 

[Chickielady]

That hat was probably made by a chrchet-ity old lady..... Like ... err.... hey, did you guys see that airplane?

 

[Chickielady]

This is exactly why I don't go visit Chickielady anymore!!!

Don't complain, it coulda been a turkle with a purple diaper on !

 

[Chickielady]

This is exactly why I don't visit with Justbugged anymore! Incubator enabler!!! You know you have lost it when you give up your princess soaker tub to turn it into a brooder in the spring!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Hi everyone,

Someone asked me to post pics of my coop when I got done. I am not completely done, but I have gotten a lot of great suggestions from you all. I have raccoon proofed it and learned a lot of coop safety things from this site. So I thank all of you. And here is my coop so far

This was the design I wanted. So I thought I would build my own and make it bigger, as this one was only big enough for 2 birds.

Very nice. While you did nice on the corner gussets I really wouldn't think them need as once you put the plywood on you have taken away nearly all shear.
Also is there something under the bottom. That is where coons will dig under.