PVC hoop coop really strong enough?

[kyflock]

I'm thinking of building a pvc or cattle panel hoop coop to shelter my new girls while they're still smallish... But are these really strong enough? Eventually once we get set up I want to have a really good but somehow mobile coop that we move around to rotate pasture... but I want some kind of enclosure for the newbies or to keep some separate.

Anyone had pvc ones break or get damaged from wind? I've had a greenhouse rip apart once in the wind... the thought of chicks in there when it happens... Ah!

 

[wamflock]

My husband and I built a portable chicken coop and run from pvc and chicken wire. We have 10 hens 2 roosters and 2 turkeys that share the living space. We have found that it has worked well, light enough to move around, but heavy enough to with stand some pretty nasty storms. We have 8 nests attached inside as well and they have plenty of room to run around inside if we need to keep the confined all day....we live in the country and have been able to let them run during the day and every evening they roost in the coop. We didnt have any design to follow, we made it up as we built it. Good luck.

 

[FeatherMom]

Wamflock - Could you post a few pictures of yours? I'd love to see what it looks like.
thanks

 

[kyflock]

I would love to see pics too! I think I'm going to try it... I feel like once I get a frame up, if I'm not happy with its stregnth I can turn it into a greenhouse instead pretty easy... Anyone know of a good design site or example with specs? Mostly just of approximate length, etc... I think I could figure it out - just want to see as many examples while I'm still in the planning stages.

 

[3forfree]

here's a link to hoop coop's

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclie...pw.r_qf.&fp=717d9e3559249a06&biw=1586&bih=767

 

[GoodwinMaine]

WE have one. It works well. The edges do need to be pinned down though.

 

[jamband]

Cattle panel will be way stronger than PVC. PVC can crack, erode from uv exposure, and wont hold snow nearly as well.

A cattle panel coop 8 ft wide makes it just over 6 ft in the middle. Make as long or shorT as you want, hang milk crates for nests, hand feed and water from top of coop. Biggest issue is digging predators. I use electric fence around mine.

 

[kyflock]

The more I think about it and look around online for different projects that people have done the more I think cattle panel is the way to go. If we could get a couple panels home anyhoo! Not entirely sure how to fit those either on the top of our car - haha - or in my uncle's pickup! I love the idea of that heavy gauge wire everywhere anyway.

 

[jamband]

the panel easily fit in a full size pickup. You have to bend them up so they sit long ways in the back. use bungies or a strap to hols the bottoms together and be careful when you release them or they will open fast and could hurt someone. You can build it fast. Just use fence staples to secure the bottoms

 

[kyflock]

awesome! Thanks!