Our chicken coop has evolved over the last month.
Here is Nathan building the coop the the Saturday before we picked up the chickens. It was not quite done in time but close enough. Once we got them home there was still time to finish up the last little bit. They spent their first few days in here.
A few days later we finished the tractor. Here is the whole set up as it was about a month ago. The coop and tractor are separate pieces. At this time they had to stay together because one end of the tractor was open. One of the flat sides of the coop opens up like a cupboard for cleaning. There is also a door on the back side for gathering eggs. (We are supposed to have our first eggs around Halloween.)
Here we have finished the door for the tractor. It slides completely on and off. It is off here. We have also started covering half of the tractor to give the chickens shade.
A view from inside the tractor. Notice the chicken's door is at ground level. At this point that is fine but we want to do deep litter inside. A door this low will not work for that.
This picture is from July 3rd after some reworking and painting. Notice the door is about 10 inches up from the floor now. The chicken latter can come off and on.
Here's a picture with the cleaning doors open. Under the nest boxes is just storage.
Here is the whole set up in the back corner of our yard where we will probably keep the chickens most of the time. It is easy enough to move the tractor wherever we want. We can also move coop but that takes a little more work. We move the coop with a hand truck. The chickens love it when we move them on to a new patch of ground.
Here is Nathan building the coop the the Saturday before we picked up the chickens. It was not quite done in time but close enough. Once we got them home there was still time to finish up the last little bit. They spent their first few days in here.
A few days later we finished the tractor. Here is the whole set up as it was about a month ago. The coop and tractor are separate pieces. At this time they had to stay together because one end of the tractor was open. One of the flat sides of the coop opens up like a cupboard for cleaning. There is also a door on the back side for gathering eggs. (We are supposed to have our first eggs around Halloween.)
Here we have finished the door for the tractor. It slides completely on and off. It is off here. We have also started covering half of the tractor to give the chickens shade.
A view from inside the tractor. Notice the chicken's door is at ground level. At this point that is fine but we want to do deep litter inside. A door this low will not work for that.
This picture is from July 3rd after some reworking and painting. Notice the door is about 10 inches up from the floor now. The chicken latter can come off and on.
Here's a picture with the cleaning doors open. Under the nest boxes is just storage.
Here is the whole set up in the back corner of our yard where we will probably keep the chickens most of the time. It is easy enough to move the tractor wherever we want. We can also move coop but that takes a little more work. We move the coop with a hand truck. The chickens love it when we move them on to a new patch of ground.
The coop and the chickens look great!!! Can't wait for the next installment. The Chinese doesn't display properly on my computer. Is there a widget I need to install to get it to show up properly?
ReplyDeleteP.S. I'm assuming that the pict at the top is from your front yard. I'd love to hear about that project. What you did, how you like it, what you would do differently.
Thanks. As I recall there are two steps you need to take to view the Chinese characters. First, download Chinese fonts. Second, configure your browser. Honestly we configured our computer so long ago that I can't remember how we did it. Here are a couple of link that may help. http://www.unicode.org/help/display_problems.html, http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the picture at the top of this blog. Yes, it is our front yard. I'll find time to write about it some time. I am kind of into Chickens right now.