Tororider said:
Bmac, Have you made any progress?
We've made some progress since the last photos of windows, doors and nest box.
You may recall that my design called for roost boxes on each side of the front door and a "foyer". I framed one roost box and the foyer and lined the inside of the box with luan. I also framed one of the side walls of the opposite roost box. However, after measuring the 1st one, we've decided that we have ample roost space with 1 box (almost 12 linear feet for 20 little bantams). So, unless I'm told differently here, I'm going to abandon the 2nd roost box, enlarge the foyer and (taking 4270 Owner's suggestion) use that space for food storage. That will entail only a minor modification of the plan with just a little demolition.
I covered the exterior of the nest box with T1-11 and made the hinged lid. My wife has been working on the interior window stop molding (all cut to length and weather stripping applied).
Tomorrow, our plan is to finish the interior framing of the modified foyer, hang chicken wire to enclose the foyer, build the roost frame (that sits atop the roost box and has the roosts on it), complete the installation of the window stop molding, hang wire mesh on the inside of the windows, frame out the "chicken door", hang the screen door that completes the foyer and whtever else is necessary to move the chickens to the coop. Realistically, I doubt we finish this list. But, that's our goal.
I'll update pictures once we've completed the interior work. Sadly, I still have alot of work left, even after we move the chickens to the coop. I have to build the pen, cut the opening for the "chicken door" and build their ramp to the pen, make the clean-out doors for the roost box, complete the soffits, do the exterior trim around windows and doors and other things that I just cannot think of right now.
Thanks for asking.
). I know my daughter got her chicks somewhere around the 17th of March, I think. I started on the brooder about 2 weeks or so before they arrived and continued for another week after they arrived. As you remember, I spent an inordinate amopunt of time researching and designing the coop before I broke ground. Early April is the best I can estimate on the start date. So, here I am 2 1/2 months later and still working.
