What have you repurposed while building ?

[MissChick@dee]

View attachment 1472872I used reclaimed cedar fence boards and an old farm window for my coop.

 

[MissChick@dee]

WOW!! That’s beautiful. Excellent job.

 

[MROO]

My whole chicken coop build was repurposed stuff from around the property: pallet, wood posts, metal siding, osb, misc wood pieces, a piece of leftover vinyl flooring, leftover paint, and a kitchen cabinet for nest boxes.
The duck house is a repurposed playhouse.
Old cattle panels that used to be used for actual cattle for my run.
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Ooooh - tell us about the playhouse coop. please!

 

[Chickassan]

My roosts are old wooden bed rails.

 

[igorsMistress]

Hi everybody

On the right is the pool area, the center is a place to hang out and enjoy some deep shade. On the left is additional shade to keep direct sun off the old picnic table late in the day. Every part of this is recycled with the exception of the shade cloth. In the foreground is a water/feed station and a shady spot to pause when the ground is hot.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

Ooooh - tell us about the playhouse coop. please!

Since it is for ducks, it was pretty easy to do - as I did it myself. Lol
I added hw cloth to all of the windows. Closed off the back opening with corrugated plastic (that I had leftover from years ago when we had guinea pigs and used it as a liner for their cage - not the pieces that I used though. Lol) I also put hw cloth over that opening on the outside. I closed off some of the windows with plastic - I had it on all the windows and then realized there was no air flow. So, for the winter, I am going to add some sort of removable panels - still working on that idea. The roof is a bit off so that there is ventilation at the top. I also added hw cloth inside the roof area because I felt that if a weasel ever came, it could squeeze through that opening.
These pics don't show it, but I affixed some of the corrugated plastic to the front over the door and a side window for an overhang to keep as much rain out as possible.
The last pic is Blossom sitting on a stump, you can see the cp overhang over the side window.
Oh, it also sits on a pallet held down with L brackets. We put a piece of wood over the pallet and painted it.

 

[MROO]

Since it is for ducks, it was pretty easy to do - as I did it myself. Lol

VERY Chic! Once you figure out how to increase the ventilation and any other tweaks you make, please document the whole thing and add it to the Coops pages... the ones everyone has been rating and reviewing, lately.
I'm a big fan of conversion coops. We redid my kids' wooden playhouse and sandboxes for our chickens. Now it's Mom's playhouse! As soon as we get it whitewashed, finish the brooder and nest boxes and clean up the mess we made, we're planning to put ours up, too. In the meantime, checking out all the other neat conversions have given me way too many ideas. I guess I'll do them in all that spare time we always have ...!

 

[chipens]

I lov e recycling/repurposing, make stuff from junk/rubbish. Haha
This is chick inn, for young chicks, its my childhood tree house recycled! And odds and ends as a run, Gates, security screen then recycled bird netting on top.

One of my main coops cluckingham palace. Is made from a big shipping box and pellets!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Might be hard to see, but this window is a single pane of frosted glass from an old shower door, the kind with an aluminum track. It’s not operable, but it lets in lots of light. Some of what I used to frame it out was repurposed2x4s too, I’ll paint it all to match eventually View attachment 1473366

I used two of those for a big skylight in the first coop i built in VA.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I made a run out of a big round metal hay holder for round bales. I have seen old trampolines used the same way.