Well Here it Is, 3 Hour "Quick Coop" PIC HEAVY!

[idispatch4911]

Love It!

 

[mfaith694]

Awesome!!!

 

[MrPaw]

If you have a local Wal-Mart with a bakery you could contact them for 5 gallon buckets. The frosting for cakes come in them and they just throw them out. I have gotten about 20 or so for free from them for the nesting boxes as well as to store the feed in.

Bakeries and grocery stores are also a place to find empty, you may have to clean them, food grade buckets with lids.

 

[MrPaw]

This is awesome. Looks like it would be in the permanent category. It is at my house. Chickens are a labor of love. One theme I've noticed on BYC is those of us that re-use, up-cycle and recycle stuff for our girls.

Any grocery store, we have Food Lion here, with a bakery should have both the large 5 gal and the smaller size food grade buckets. Wal-Mart charges for them here in Washington, NC but the grocery stores do not. But I think the Wal-Mart charge just depends on who is working when you go in and ask. I use the smaller buckets for making FF and to carry scraps, water, etc.. I have 8 girls and expanding as we speak. Maybe adding 5 more, Ameraucana's if I'm lucky enough to find some, and a silkie . I know this isn't a lot but it's all I have room for right now.

Thanks for the pepper spray idea. I use the extra large totes with the locking handles and under a lean to. It's been >5 years and nothing in it yet. Better safe than sorry and will be spraying away with pepper spray!

 

[ColtHandorf]

Posting so I can find this later. I do think it was very clever a build.

 

[HayleighMartin]

Looks awesome!! I think I’m going to also use your 5 gallon bucket idea for nesting!!

 

[Ch1ckn304]

Well i finally got around to taking some pictures...
This is built entirely out of 10x6 Chain link Kennel Sections with tin wired over them for the coop area and netting over the run. Took my wife and I about 3 hours start to finish. It has a 8x16x2 inch thick cinder block floor in the coop with the shavings over it. I used leftover 12 inch Masonite siding around the inside perimeter of the coop to keep the shavings contained.
Please let me know if any suggestions or things that i need to change.
Thanks for all the help so far!

Have the pictures been removed? They don't come up in the thread.

 

[TwoCrows]

Have the pictures been removed? They don't come up in the thread.

We are looking into this.

-BYC Staff

 

[casportpony]

Well i finally got around to taking some pictures...
This is built entirely out of 10x6 Chain link Kennel Sections with tin wired over them for the coop area and netting over the run. Took my wife and I about 3 hours start to finish. It has a 8x16x2 inch thick cinder block floor in the coop with the shavings over it. I used leftover 12 inch Masonite siding around the inside perimeter of the coop to keep the shavings contained.
Please let me know if any suggestions or things that i need to change.
Thanks for all the help so far!

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Have the pictures been removed? They don't come up in the thread.

We are looking into this.

-BYC Staff

They were not removed, they were "hotlinked" from a website that no longer exists, but I was able to find the images on the Wayback Machine.

 

[The Moonshiner]

They were not removed, they were "hotlinked" from a website that no longer exists, but I was able to find the images on the Wayback Machine.

This "Wayback Machine" you speak of does not sound cool.
Can things found with it be held against someone in present day?
Asking for a friend.