XMAS Project #1 – Chicken Coop
January 12th, 2009 AndrewDSo yea we did do some things during the break. The first was a chicken coop. This is a 4 sided coop, 90cm high, 3metres long and 1.2 metres wide.
The back half has a roof on a hinge that provides access to the coop itself, and there is another smaller door in the other half. There is a drawbridge style door that when raised locks the birds in their nesting area for the nite, when lowered they can roam in the rest of the enclosure. The reason for the size is that Lee Ann and I can move it and that it fits reasonably well on the vege patches.
So for construction most of it was using scrap wood from around the place and we had to buy the external ply.
The basic frame.
Here the sides are getting placed on the coop
With the main roof towards the back, and the smaller access point at the front
With the drawbridge up
The drawbridge down
The first vege bed to be hit by the chooks
Now we will be getting 3 Isa Browns for egg production and a bit of weeding. Hopefully they will arive this week and we will be getting these at point of lay (approx 20 weeks old). Lee Ann wanted one point made, that it is heavy to move, but can be done with two people.
