Will this building work?

[bbowen]

Hard to get a good look at it now. Its full of stuff and covered in snow. It was moved to its current location by a bunch of guys with no fancy equipment. I wasn't there when they moved it but my mo says they had a flatbed and some boards and jacks.

I'll have to see if she remembers which guys moved it and I'll ask them how it was.

I do need 8x10 since the girls will need to stay inside during parts of the winter. I don't want to crowd them. Plus t will give me a bit of room for storage.

 

[Kung Foo Chicken]

That is very nice. Love it.

 

[wildorchid053]

my coop is shed style and we put hardware cloth under the eaves so no cute critters could crawl in with the hens.. add a pop door, some windows and vents and you should be good to go

 

[bison]

I say if it's been moved once, and there hasn't been much deterioration since, then it'll probably be cheaper to move than to build a new one. Those companies that sell those little buildings always bring them in on a flatbed with a winch. Seems like you could hire the guy who drives that truck for a small enough fee. It would give him a little side money, you know?

 

[Tikka]

Whereas I have the opposite reaction, 4 moves is as "good" as a fire. Least that's what they say in the military. But I guess if it's only the second move, you'd be okay.

 

[bbowen]

Well, the local shed place won't move since they didn't build it. I did find a towing company that will do it for about $125 if it is less than 9ft tall. So, I have to go measure it.

We keep getting dumped on by snow so it puts off any moving plans.

 

[CTChickenMom]

This looks like a great coop and plenty of room for your girls. If no one has said it yet, have someone put up some vented sofit under the eves so that wild birds don't end up in your coop. You'll still have great ventilation but you'll keep birds and bats out. My coop is also 8x10 and by spring time, I'll have 23 or so chickens living in it(with a large run). Are there windows in it? You may want to add a couple of those too. (Sorry, didn't read through all the pages.) I'd love to come by a building like that! Have fun with it!

 

[owler]

The way they do this by me is they use a flatbed tow truck and roll the sheds on 4 inch schedule 40. Rolls pretty easy but not with snow.

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

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A skid loader or Roll back are the trucks you use to move things like a shed that would be useing a skid loader it's a flatbed truck

A roll back you have seen before just didn't know that's what they were called, If you have ever seen a car that had been in a wreck on the back of a flat bed truck that truck is a roll back it has a winch on one end and the bed rolls up and back to go under the car then they hook the car up pull it on and lay the bed back down flat again.

 

[gsim]

I would not put more than 20 standard chickens in that. Do leave the ventilation at the eaves as is, just nail up a strip of hardware cloth mesh in the spaces. Add a turbine vent to the roof, or a cupola, or two gable vents at peaks of gables.

For moving, if a rollback wrecker can get in there and you can get it jacked up ahead of time and prepped, then you can have him move it for the cost of towing a car. You have to make your place ready to receive it and you have to jack it up and make a place for him to attach the two towing hooks. The base of it would be the only place likely to work for that. when you set it, be sure to maintain 16-18" above ground to prevent rodents and snakes from having a home under it.