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3-4 square feet per chicken is the general rult. . . . closer to 2 square feet for bantams.so lucky said:
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canesisters
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I didn't even know I HAD a member page on BYC. Is it something that just happens when you join? Or do you have to create it?
I've been working on a 4' x 10' tractor/brooder/isolation coop thing. I think that I'm finally down to only needing to add: the metal on the roof, a few more vents, a door (for me) into the run area, and the wire. I added the handle today and FINALLY moved it out of my driveway.
I've been working on a 4' x 10' tractor/brooder/isolation coop thing. I think that I'm finally down to only needing to add: the metal on the roof, a few more vents, a door (for me) into the run area, and the wire. I added the handle today and FINALLY moved it out of my driveway.
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Cane! 
Are you putting a 350 V8 4 barrel into that? That's the coolest!
Are you putting a 350 V8 4 barrel into that? That's the coolest!
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digitS'
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That is just about what I "hoped" to have! You did good!
My idea was to have the door on the short end - above the wheels. This house nearby has a BIG garage door in the front. The door is under it's own gable, another gable has what must be the window for the living room and then there is a tiny gable between for the front entrance & porch.
My plan was that the front porch would be fake. The garage door would be my access to the chicken tractor - both the top floor and the ground under the coop. The chickens would enter and exit thru the floor on a ladder to their coop. They could hang out under the coop for protection and their waterer could stay down there except during the winter. I could also put a nest box down there for summer use.
It should look more like a "play house" than a chicken coop. Just kind of a silly idea based on that house! It is just a big box but the front is kind of interesting . . .
Yes, Cane', you should put that picture on your BYC page! You may be able to find how you can start one by taking the steps Journey has outlined.
Steve
My idea was to have the door on the short end - above the wheels. This house nearby has a BIG garage door in the front. The door is under it's own gable, another gable has what must be the window for the living room and then there is a tiny gable between for the front entrance & porch.
My plan was that the front porch would be fake. The garage door would be my access to the chicken tractor - both the top floor and the ground under the coop. The chickens would enter and exit thru the floor on a ladder to their coop. They could hang out under the coop for protection and their waterer could stay down there except during the winter. I could also put a nest box down there for summer use
.It should look more like a "play house" than a chicken coop. Just kind of a silly idea based on that house! It is just a big box but the front is kind of interesting . . .
Yes, Cane', you should put that picture on your BYC page! You may be able to find how you can start one by taking the steps Journey has outlined.
Steve
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digitS'
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I was probably thinking about this before there was google streetview!
Here it is - just a big box! Imagine that it is just a bit higher like a story and a half so that the wall can cover 2 floors of "chicken activities." Also, shorten the garage and living room so that I can reach around in there to get to a nest box.
Oh, and imagine that I'm the size of Paul Bunyan!
digitS'
Here it is - just a big box! Imagine that it is just a bit higher like a story and a half so that the wall can cover 2 floors of "chicken activities." Also, shorten the garage and living room so that I can reach around in there to get to a nest box.
Oh, and imagine that I'm the size of Paul Bunyan!
digitS'
canesisters
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Funnymarshallsmyth said:Cane!
Are you putting a 350 V8 4 barrel into that? That's the coolest!
No, I'm putting 2 Jersey Giant mixes in it to start off. Then about a month or so later, I'll add them to the flock and replace them with a half dozen chicks. Wonder what that works out to in 'poultry power' in an engine???
Digits, you must have some crazy building skills! I had to get a friend to come over and figure out how to attach the wheels - and in the time it took him to design and create that whole thing.... I cut a rectangle in the other side to add the pet door access from coop to run. Which, I suppose, explains why this little project has taken me 3 months...
I had considered putting the run access door under the coop - but it's only 24" high, and unless I'm going to get on my hands and knees, I need a little more room. Hopefully I will only rarely need to get in there.
But seriously - if you follow that design, that is going to be one COOL coop.
journey11
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Nice coop, Canesisters! It looks like a fast car from the profile.
canesisters
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From that exact angel, it almost looks like it's nearly square....If I take even one step in either direction you'd see that there isn't a square angle or a straight board in hardly any of it. LOL Mike (the wheel guy) was shocked that it is as sturdy as it is... and kept on commenting on that fact. :/ It DOES sorta lean a little, like a cartoon race car. I should post a picture of it from the end.. it's sorta leans in 3 different directions. LOL But when we raise it up onto those wheels, it rolls along rock steady!
Oh well - I prefer 'unique and useful' over 'pretty and ordinary' anyday.
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digitS'
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That's me too, Cane'!
I may have some idea or another but when it comes right down to it, I'm dreadfully practical.
My current coop was going to be in violation of building codes because there would be too many square feet covering my city-size lot. I was planning to enlarge my greenhouse.
So . . . I built it as a camper. Yeah, it could be mobile, just jack it up a little higher and back the pickup under it - it would fit.
No, if'n I get a round toit, my chicken tractor will probably look more like an elevated Snoopy doghouse. Yep.
Steve
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I may have some idea or another but when it comes right down to it, I'm dreadfully practical.
My current coop was going to be in violation of building codes because there would be too many square feet covering my city-size lot. I was planning to enlarge my greenhouse.
So . . . I built it as a camper. Yeah, it could be mobile, just jack it up a little higher and back the pickup under it - it would fit
.No, if'n I get a round toit, my chicken tractor will probably look more like an elevated Snoopy doghouse. Yep.
Steve
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