Finished (almost) coop. We’re working on the attached run now. We have fairly limited carpentry skills and I should’ve bought a plan, but I didn’t want a tiny coop and thought I’d give designing and building a go.
We live in an industrial city with lots of raccoons and cats so we decided to...
It ended up being more ventilation without making the roof taller. We had to build on a slope. Our whole property is on a slope. So the highest side has a 1x6ft opening plus some. Then the other sides have 6 feet and it gets smaller towards the back. The way our wind hits the coop it’ll push the...
Awesome thank you! No I’m not in the foothills. I’m not far but it doesn’t get cold like it does over there. I was worried about having the windows be propped open in the winter d/t drafts but I can do that and add more height to the roof.
Thank you so much!
The ventilation - the whole top will be an open roof with about 4 inches of opening all around. Would that be enough? I can make the roof taller to create more space.
I’ll make the apron the 2ft out. Thank you! I’m mostly worried about the occasional raccoon. The...
Hi all!
Located south of Seattle.
We’re in the final stages of putting together our coop. We have the 4 posts set, the floor and part of the roof joints set. See photos.
We have 8 hens. It’s 6x6 with an attached run (probably 8x12 maybe bigger later on).
The North and South walls will be...