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Have I mentioned I hate doing carpentry anymore? Gonna have a metal roof and concrete floor plus electric chicken doors for free ranging. Plus shutters on the windows for winter. The run will come later.

Have I mentioned I hate doing carpentry anymore? Gonna have a metal roof and concrete floor plus electric chicken doors for free ranging. Plus shutters on the windows for winter. The run will come later.

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From a human’s perspective it looks pretty damn nice, but let’s get the @stupidbird take on it before we jump to conclusions here.

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Looks good to me.

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Great! I’m gonna go ahead and say it then, nice fuk’n job @suplex ! Obviously your fence guy was nowhere near the job site!

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Whats wrong with the fence? I think they did a good job.

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Chicken wire windows? This wouldn't pass inspection in a blue state! No indoor plumbing, no HVAC, no Cable TV?

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Of course it wouldn't pass in a blue state. You probably wouldn't be allowed to own chickens at all, so no need for a chicken coop. Problem solved, you're welcome (">

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I use to be a perfectionist, started out working for a custom home builder, We did it all from the slab to the finish work, then worked for just a home builder who got mad I was drawing a line over 1x2'. Said you didnt have to. I really dont care anymore. Still have to run electrical and water before the floor goes in. It looks good enough for a chicken house. Laid out the square and everything by myself.

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Lol, say what you will about not caring, it’s obvious you still do. It’s a White man thing. Can’t be helped.

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Nice looking chicken house!

I raised chickens for 4-H when I was a young kid (please don't laugh, I got enough shit about it as a kid). My dad built me a chicken house in 1969. Wooden floor, used wood framed removeable cellar casement windows repurposed with wire screening, rectangular hole in the bottom of one wall with a plywood door that slid up and down to let the chickens out during the day and keep critters out of the henhouse at night. Their yard was made from 2" diameter hardwood poles cut from small trees around the yard, chicken wire with a cable running through the holes in the top and large U-shaped wire hooks to keep the chicken wire pinned to the ground. The chicken wire was attached to the poles with U-shaped nails. Dad built a chicken feeder from wood (shaped a lot like an antique carpenters wooden tool box), built a 4 unit egg laying box, 2x4 perch for the birds to roost at night. He ran power from the garage to power lights, water warmer and during the worst of the winter an infrared heating light. I had to carry fresh water daily. He clapboarded the exterior, made an old school "Z-framed" door and topped it all off with a hardwood wooden door handle made from the crotch of a small tree and branch section. The "shed" still stands, door handle still works great, chickens have been gone nearly 50 years. I store planting materials and tools, odds and ends in it now. Still have a stack of the old burlap bags the layer mash/pellets came in back in the day. I've removed all the chicken related implements years ago and it's just a storage shed on blocks now.

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Oh these people raise fair chickens yearly for the kids. I built a fully insulated heating and air, concrete floor building for that.Intake and exhaust fans electical and water.

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All that for chickens?! Sheeeiit! They could rent it out as a 100sqft apartment after they are done with the chickens!

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Yeah, generally I hate rich people, but these actually earned it all themselves. Nice people not scared to work. That one is only used for fair chickens (meat) not year round. It is hard to not be envious though.

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Great job! Could consider 1/4 inch hardware cloth over the windows so a raccoon doesn't reach in.

We had an electric door on our coop for a while but discontinued using it because various things kept getting in the way or there would be some power failure or some random thing causing it to not open or close. When you have 50-100 birds, lots of random stuff is always happening. We would always need to walk out to the coop to check that the door in fact opened or closed correctly, and might as well just be opening / closing the door ourselves anyway. Hope you have more success with yours. We have large chickenwire covered zip tie domes as the principle runs for our hens, and they go outside the domes into the forest every day to freerange.

I'm quite interested in what you're doing for the flooring. That's a weak point in many designs including our 8ish year old coop and I'm watching out for good ideas. IMHO, needs to have a good straightforward way to access the entire floor to clean it out once a year, without bumping into the roosting posts or anything else. Plus needs to be reliable over a long term, say 10+ years. Plus needs to prohibit things from tunneling into the coop from the bottom up. Concrete sounds like a good way to go. I have no experience pouring concrete, and am interested in hearing more about your project.

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The chicken house we had had unfinished 8" pine tongue and groove floors on joists. I had to clean it out about 4 times a year. The ammonia smell was particularly bad in the spring when the past 3-4 months of excrement warmed up. It was used for chickens for about 10 years. The floor held up great! The shed is 55 years old now.

If there is a cabinet shop or lumber yard near you, you can save money by getting shavings and sawdust for free, you bag it.

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Not mine, where I work. They have a generac so not worried about outages, but Im concerned about the doors also. The windows are up high and the horse panels are about 2x4 inches. The nesting boxes arent going to touch the floor, havent really figured them out yet. Gonna just fake it on saturday and figure something out. Concrete for a chicken house isnt really that difficult even with no experience.

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Our laying boxes were about 3ft off the floor with a ~6" walkway along the front, sloped roof so birds wouldn't perch/shit all over the top.

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You should consider making the nesting boxes accessible from the outside. It makes egg collection much easier.

Edit: It looks real sweet though, good job Suplex!

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You would have to crawl thru the fence for that. The last one was that way but you had to enter from the run. This one you just open the door and step inside.

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Looking good, when you do the run and also under the coop add about an extra foot of wire to bury underneath so critters can't dig into it.

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Was gonna do horse panel around the coop but with a concrete floor will no longer have to.

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Concrete is pretty hard to dig through.