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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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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.