Articles by Amigatec
The birds wanted to roost in the nesting boxes so I added a slanted board to the top.
It didn't work. They just crawled under it to get back to the nests.
So I fixed it. I made a new Nest for them. (Good thing I bought 6 of these baskets.)
Put boards around them so the chickens...
I have the walls covered now.
Added a center stub the back wall.
Started framing the roof in. I payed for 8' 2X4'S but was sold precut stud. Now I have to cut one rafter.
Have part of the roof framed in.
Well I live in a small town in East Central Oklahoma, and my little town has an ordnance against raising chickens in town. I talked with the Code Enforcer here in town and was told as long as no one complained he would look the other way.
So I am going to start building the coop, and I hope to...
I used my mini-tiller to dig the trench. (Here I was using it to dig a trench from the house to the garden so i could run conduit to control the water I use. But that's another project.)
Started at the corner of the shed...
Down to the fence and another trench along the fence...
I had something getting in and killing my chickens, so I added some 2X4's to the floor and hardware cloth.
I used 2 pieces of 1/4" and 1 piece of 1/2".
Fastened it to the 2X4" and covered it with Pine Shavings.