Over the winter we
decided to get started on our chicken adventure in 2015. We decided to start
small and see how it would go. Ordering ready to lay birds from our local
supply store only gave us one date for delivery, June 30th.
Come
June we started the prep work to get this up and running. Ordered 164’ of
electric poultry net fencing and a solar charger to power it. Plans were
perused online for a coop, skimming the features that we wanted to use in ours.
The coop was cobbled together with gifted and recycled wood as much as
possible. Only a few sheets of 4x8 were purchased to complete the structure and
hardware for latches and such.
I’m not well versed in standard stick frame construction and do things a little backwards on small buildings like the coop and outhouse. My builder buddy would likely cringe with how I get them up but I know he was impressed by our ‘Cadillac’ of an outhouse! After toiling and swearing, and toiling some more, we finally had a structure. We put Ice and Water Shield on the roof and Tricia coated it with some paint we had around. The Coop De Jour was done!
Now time to start getting some bags down and walls up on the house.