So today was my chemo, I was there until 3:30. Well they give me a steroid and I am always pretty hyper when I get it, so I came home and my mom and I designed and cut the wood to enclose the bottom of the coop to make two coops. I made the nest boxes (two that are divided. So 4 total) and I primer/sealed it. I will paint it in the morning and then tomorrow afternoon after it dries I will install it. We have some 2 month old chicks that we will put in the bottom and make the opening smaller (temporarily) so the little ones can go out and in, but the big girls cant. (We have let them play together and they do pretty well.)
When we were cutting the wood, my pump tubing came out (I have to wear a pump for two days and get it off on wednesday). We were joking if she sawed it, how would we explain it to the cancer place lol. They already had to give me a new pump case because I got paint all over the other one. (This time I covered it.)
I will post pictures when I get it done tomorrow. I am excited. I got spring loaded front opening hinges for the nest boxes (since they cannot open on top because they will be under the nest box.
See to the right there, will be a front with a small door.
Then each side will have a nest box the same height as the one above, but resting on the 2x4 below. it will be the full width of the opening and divided into two. Then I have a 6in high board that will go the full width, on top of the nest box (that will leave a 2 inch vent on either side.) The floor to the coop above (is OSB) will be the ceiling. There is already a back door that opens.
I have one roost already to go in and will probably get another.
What do you think. Think it might work? Then there will be two enclosed 4x4 coops. So 16 sq ft total and we want 6 birds, though now we might be able to go to 8
We are going to leave the floor open to the ground right now. (We are up to the high 60's and 70's, next winter, we will put a removeable floor in the bottom. Leave it open in the spring and summer. This is an old picture. We have enforced the bottom of the run with hard wire already. We are also going to make another run that can attach to the end of this one (this one is tarped for shade) and it will be 6ft x 12 ft. Because when we enclose the bottom, the run will go from 4x12 to 4x8,
So in a few months when our little baby EE get ready to go out to the coop, there will be room for 6.
Here is the bottom converted to a coop with external nestboxes
When we were cutting the wood, my pump tubing came out (I have to wear a pump for two days and get it off on wednesday). We were joking if she sawed it, how would we explain it to the cancer place lol. They already had to give me a new pump case because I got paint all over the other one. (This time I covered it.)
I will post pictures when I get it done tomorrow. I am excited. I got spring loaded front opening hinges for the nest boxes (since they cannot open on top because they will be under the nest box.
See to the right there, will be a front with a small door.
Then each side will have a nest box the same height as the one above, but resting on the 2x4 below. it will be the full width of the opening and divided into two. Then I have a 6in high board that will go the full width, on top of the nest box (that will leave a 2 inch vent on either side.) The floor to the coop above (is OSB) will be the ceiling. There is already a back door that opens.
I have one roost already to go in and will probably get another.
What do you think. Think it might work? Then there will be two enclosed 4x4 coops. So 16 sq ft total and we want 6 birds, though now we might be able to go to 8
We are going to leave the floor open to the ground right now. (We are up to the high 60's and 70's, next winter, we will put a removeable floor in the bottom. Leave it open in the spring and summer. This is an old picture. We have enforced the bottom of the run with hard wire already. We are also going to make another run that can attach to the end of this one (this one is tarped for shade) and it will be 6ft x 12 ft. Because when we enclose the bottom, the run will go from 4x12 to 4x8,
So in a few months when our little baby EE get ready to go out to the coop, there will be room for 6.
Here is the bottom converted to a coop with external nestboxes
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