My coop is finished! *Updated with final pics!!!* Please look.

[Chelly]

That is a great coop!

I love the little helper - very cute!

(love a man with long hair as well, my husbands isn't quite that long but getting there!!)

 

[ChickaChickaBoomBoom]

It's really coming along fast! I can't wait to see it with the run completed and the hens making themselves at home.

-Dave

 

[catballou24]

looks awesome!!! are you guys going to cut windows? that's my only thought. you can use hardware cloth over them and then either have doors/shutters for cold days and nights..

otherwise looks great!!!!

R is just getting more and more handsome too!!!

love that boy..

 

[chknman79]

Looks great. I bet you all will be happy when it is finished and you can sit back and enjoy it. Congrats.

 

[michellerene]

Cat-- I would love some windows, but you know my DH... "You'll get what you get & that's what you'll get."

I can open the front doors & the egg hatch for ventilation when it gets hot (not very much!), and it will look much better with some siding & paint. Looks like a bunker right now, doesn't it? I will mention a window after he's had a couple of weekends of not working on a big 'ol project for me, but I'm not holding out too much hope.

He is putting in a light with a timer, though, so that's cool.

I woke up at 3 am and proceeded to think about how I was going to paint it & put a little bed of shrubs in the front of it & maybe grow some honeysuckle up the side of the wire... yeah, I should have been sleeping!

 

[catballou24]

i think it looks fantastic!

and yeah, he's alot like my j...hahaha your chickies will be very happy!!!

 

[michellerene]

I'll ask him if he'll cut a window hole for me, I think... I can nail the wire in it myself. Some funky old shutters would be so cute for the outside. I guess you don't really need a window to make a window, huh?

 

[webdawg]

Looking AWESOME michellerene.

 

[catballou24]

i think no matter what it's already looking great!

i was just thinking window in case there are really stormy days in the winter and they have to be inside for a day or so..

but otherwise it's gorgeous..

 

[michellerene]

Okay, here are the final pics... it turned out so danged cute!

With the cedar shingles I got free for the asking:

After today's final touches-- paint, cedar flower boxes & tin signs on the doors:

A close up of the door without wire in the way:

And a pic of my happy girls roosting outside:

As a final note, has anyone else tried to paint with a flock of curious chickens underfoot?!

More than one of them has blue paint on her feathers & a couple even got some on their beaks! Silly chickens!