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Ridgerunner,
Thank you so very much for taking the time to critique my coop. I really appreciate your feedback and thank you for all the details.
Love your idea for roosts. Will definitely look at running two lower roost poles for the 15 chickens, for some reason I was stuck thinking that roosts had to be pretty high up. I can rig up something pretty easily to give them the space they need now. I am really praying that sand will make things drastically easier to clean, so the ventilation doesn't become an issue. The plan is to go out there every day or so with a kitty pooper scooper and help keep the sand clean and loose. I have also heard that mites and lice cannot live in it - don't EVER want to deal with those beasties if posible!
The nest box idea is pretty neat too. I will hold off on it until I have just hens, as by this point I am a little sick of the blamed coop and want to stick to the necessary to make it usable - fast! But I have 2"x4" welded wire hanging around, so I can easily attach that over the poultry netting. Except on the bottom - shoot, now that the roof is attached I can't lay the coop flat on it's side. Guess the hatch will stay closed at night until the yard is fenced.
Feed and water on the bottom... hmmm... I guess I could try to hang them from the underside of the floor beams? If they were close to the door opening I wouldn't have to get in there, but it would be a real PITA. I was thinking of hanging them from the roof girder indoors so they had access during the night. I'm not a morning person and a consistent 7am would be pretty good for me, at least until I have a rooster as an alarm clock. Now that's an idea - keeping a roo just to get my a** up! But anyway, I had thought of using a trough feeder indoors and a waterer hung from the girder. Maybe I can re-visit that idea after the freezer is full of the meat birds.
Yes, my next coop will definitely not be an A-frame. However, once I do have a bigger better coop, this one might do very nicely as a brooder. I could rig up a heat lamp inside a protective mesh cage and the enclosed bottom would be perfect for acclimating chicks to the great outdoors. So all is not lost
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Forgot to add... if the windows make it too hot, the summer plan is to cover two of them with fabric or foil. That way they will not overheat the inside and cook my hens.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to critique my coop. I really appreciate your feedback and thank you for all the details.
Love your idea for roosts. Will definitely look at running two lower roost poles for the 15 chickens, for some reason I was stuck thinking that roosts had to be pretty high up. I can rig up something pretty easily to give them the space they need now. I am really praying that sand will make things drastically easier to clean, so the ventilation doesn't become an issue. The plan is to go out there every day or so with a kitty pooper scooper and help keep the sand clean and loose. I have also heard that mites and lice cannot live in it - don't EVER want to deal with those beasties if posible!
The nest box idea is pretty neat too. I will hold off on it until I have just hens, as by this point I am a little sick of the blamed coop and want to stick to the necessary to make it usable - fast! But I have 2"x4" welded wire hanging around, so I can easily attach that over the poultry netting. Except on the bottom - shoot, now that the roof is attached I can't lay the coop flat on it's side. Guess the hatch will stay closed at night until the yard is fenced.
Feed and water on the bottom... hmmm... I guess I could try to hang them from the underside of the floor beams? If they were close to the door opening I wouldn't have to get in there, but it would be a real PITA. I was thinking of hanging them from the roof girder indoors so they had access during the night. I'm not a morning person and a consistent 7am would be pretty good for me, at least until I have a rooster as an alarm clock. Now that's an idea - keeping a roo just to get my a** up! But anyway, I had thought of using a trough feeder indoors and a waterer hung from the girder. Maybe I can re-visit that idea after the freezer is full of the meat birds.
Yes, my next coop will definitely not be an A-frame. However, once I do have a bigger better coop, this one might do very nicely as a brooder. I could rig up a heat lamp inside a protective mesh cage and the enclosed bottom would be perfect for acclimating chicks to the great outdoors. So all is not lost
Forgot to add... if the windows make it too hot, the summer plan is to cover two of them with fabric or foil. That way they will not overheat the inside and cook my hens.
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