We used a couple of skinny trees to support the chicken wire from drooping on the top. I know that looks like barbed wire at the top, but it’s some super-sexy (NEON!) zip tie sewing we did with scrap chicken wire to keep predators out of the run and the coop. There’s an overturned plastic pool-cover turtle shell (free castaway from a trash pile) pond for the duck and the old doghouse top for a little something familiar. That beachy blue paint is a mix of most of the leftover paint…
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Chicken Coop Progress 4/19/2014
I worked all day on the coop on Saturday, but made very little progress. I tore it apart when I started the day only to realize I should heave left it alone. Now my plywood floor doesn’t cover the entire deck as originally planned. I did get out of cutting 3″ off of each joist though. The plywood I originally bought for the floor was too thin and had to be removed and I had to make a trip to Lowe’s to buy sturdier plywood for the sub-floor. The…
March 2014 – Posts Imported as a single post.
Chicken Coop Progress Report – March 16, 2014 This is the overturned cast-away bottom half of a plastic dog house that they’ve been sleeping in since we moved them out last month. They’re so big now, that they can’t ALL fit in there!! We HAVE to do something! The chicken coop is a project we had planned on building in three stages. We have decided we are at a MUST BUILD point for the Pre-Permanent Coop. We have acquired a full sized door, some used tin sheets to repurpose…