Recent content by fat brown hen

@paintedChix Thank you for sharing all your different hoop coop builds. I really appreciate the time you took to compile this.

Very interesting! Do the cattle panels provide enough structural support for the front/back walls? What keeps the door frame from moving?

This is great! Thank you so much for the help and inspiration.

@StinkyAcres are your vertical supports anchored to anything (eg cement holes), or are they sort of free-standing in the garden bed?

Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for. I might use mine as a greenhouse when unoccupied, also! How did you attach your hoops to the "base"? It looks like your hoops are elevated a couple feet as well.

It will be a spare coop. Probably a tarp in the winter, shade cloth in summer. Where would you add "lots of extra support"?

with fence staples.

Most of them feathered out in the colors predicted. They are much bigger/fluffier than leghorns. This one has an interesting "bib" pattern. If you squint, it almost looks like the bird in the first post.

Are the pallets sufficient for a base frame? I know there are builds *like* this on YouTube, but this is my build. Question 2: How critical is it that the hoops are straight and level on the x- and y-axis? The pallets are mismatched and warped due to being free.

This is sort of a slapdash build using whatever garbage I find on the side of the road. I have pallets held in place using t-posts, and two cattle panels hooped in the middle. I plan to add t-posts + pallets along the back and front, with one front pallet hinged for a door. I will bolt the...

No sign of parasites but I dusted it with permethrin just in case. Could it be a frizzle?

Very interesting, I had never heard of shredded feather before. It's hard to see from the photos and color pattern, but this bird is really scruffy.

This is a 10-week-old hamburg from McMurray hatchery. It's supposed to be a sexed pullet, but the feathers look odd to me. A neighbor says it looks like it might have mange 😳 What's up with this chicken?

It is a clever solution. I especially like the last suggestion of hanging gutters on the edges as bumpers/rain collection. Although, after thinking about what I would need to make the roof decapitation-proof, it seems like a regular wood+shingle roof would be the least amount of work. Same with...