the chicken condo

Po-Jo · January 16, 2014, 05:08:28 AM

Its been a while since i have been here , hope all is well with everyone, i have finally started cutting again ,long story, got a few piled up to be cut but thought i would post a chicken condo that was made from the beetle kill pine that i cut last fall

m wood · January 16, 2014, 05:15:27 AM

Po-Jo, nice to hear from you again. Thats a good sized coop. Is that a piece of plexi you framed in for light? My guess is that coop is good for about 6 girls. Is this one for you guys or is it gonna sell?
mark

clww · January 16, 2014, 06:49:57 AM

Nice!

Po-Jo · January 16, 2014, 08:13:11 AM

nah this is for the hens we have, we moved them out from near the woods,opossums and racoons was trying to get to them, they are laying much better now that we have them in the pasture with the cows and goats, less feed bill too , everyone is happy now, no plexiglass its 1/4" square hardware cloth, as hot as it gets here they gonna need all the ventilations they can get, it has 9 laying boxes we have 11 hens now, silly hens will all lay in only 3 of the boxes. Kids got 20 chicks coming in March for 4-H. so i guess we gonna have a chicken ranch going on, or a chicken Bar-B-que ;D

thecfarm · January 16, 2014, 08:27:17 AM

Looks good,But I do have to ask about the snowman on the door? ;D

Po-Jo · January 16, 2014, 08:35:01 AM

well cfarm this was one of my honey do list items, i build it but dont take ownership of it so my wife and kids do the decorating and such, kids wanting snow so bad, but they had to settle for the wooden snowman instead, the kids were spoiled by that freak snow storm back in 2011( we got 5" overnight, has not done that here in 25+ yrs), so now they think it is suppose to snow every year

Po-Jo · January 16, 2014, 08:38:07 AM

the kids want this every year

thecfarm · January 16, 2014, 08:48:31 AM

I have no idea how close you live to WDH,but I can make it to his sawmill in 20½ hours. Pack the kids up,pack winter gear too,and come to Maine. I have snow and will gladly share it. ;D

Wick · January 16, 2014, 03:30:15 PM

Nice coop!

Quote from: Po-Jo on January 16, 2014, 08:38:07 AM

the kids want this every year

Us too, at least once a year would be cool for my family.

m wood · January 16, 2014, 03:45:56 PM

Ohhh, you silly southern boys, it only snows once here...and snows...and snows...and snows :D I'd say it it lasts the better part of 5 months

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wish I could build some of these in January, April will have to do

they sell better in spring anyway
mark

kelLOGg · January 16, 2014, 06:05:32 PM

Quote from: Po-Jo on January 16, 2014, 08:13:11 AM
it has 9 laying boxes we have 11 hens now, silly hens will all lay in only 3 of the boxes.

When I built the coop for my wife, I said. "only 2 boxes for 5 hens?". "yes", she said. They do know how and want to share. Sometimes two to a box, simultaneously.

Nice coop!

Bob

bandmiller2 · January 16, 2014, 08:03:34 PM

A coop de ville for sure. Hens will favor certin nest boxes over others. Only had two boxes for my dozen hens, seemed to work out fine. Hard to find the glass decoy eggs now so I would put a golf ball in the nest. Frank C.

WDH · January 16, 2014, 08:08:21 PM

That is a fine looking hound.

Po-Jo · January 16, 2014, 09:10:38 PM

WDH she sure was , unfortunatly hunters got her a couple years ago, i got her daughter and shes just as nice.

WDH · January 16, 2014, 09:46:34 PM

That is awful. Hunters should never shoot dogs.

Po-Jo · January 17, 2014, 03:40:17 AM

i agree wdh, always the same story "the dogs run deer off" I lived here for a while and have hunted forever and i call BS on that! i seen the dogs run right by a big ol bucks chasing jr who doesnt know better, funny thing was some of those hunters would get me and "Dixie" to come help them find their lost deer . and she would find them everytime, rain or shine. Dixie was a great dog given to us by some of my high end inlaws that had picked her up from some top breeder in Mississippi , they lived in the city and she was a dog that needed room and the previous owners got frustrated and just gave her to us. She was Awesome for sure!

drobertson · January 17, 2014, 07:11:52 AM

Nice coop! and you can't go wrong with a name like Dixie ;D, david

WDH · January 17, 2014, 07:12:45 AM

If anyone had shot Miss Scarlet, I would have hunted them down. When I worked for Weyerhaeuser, we had over 700 hunting clubs in Georgia. The best way to lose your lease was to shoot someone's dog. #1 rule was, "DON"T SHOOT DOGS".

slider · January 17, 2014, 07:42:40 AM

Nice coop Po-Jo now where is the goat condo.

Rockn H · January 17, 2014, 09:20:45 AM

Po-Jo, I like your coop, looks good. I'm thinking about building one for my son's place and I've got a question. We've always had the nesting boxes up behind the roosting bars about chest high. For no better reason than "that's how grandpa did it". Does it make a difference with the nesting boxes down low like yours and m wood? And do you have bars for them to roost?

thecfarm · January 17, 2014, 05:30:34 PM

I had mine about waist high and I had about an 1½'' piece of round wood for them to roost on. All the kids that came here loved to pick eggs. One of my friends would come over in the afternoon. I would have to go back down to the coop with some eggs for them to pick. ;D Grandkids would call and I would not pick the eggs.

Po-Jo · January 18, 2014, 12:21:55 AM

rh there are several roosting bars on the inside for them, and they dont seem to mind the laying boxes low, i did it that way so my kids can help with them, the added benefit is the kids get on top of the lids and "peek" in the window to watch them.

goats have their houses and stalls but i will be moving them to the wood line so they can get to work, but i got to get busy for the cows, they are little now (about 150-200lbs) but they should be around 1k+ when they top out, so i need a whole different setup for the girls.

WDH funny you mentioned that , the club next door is on timber/paper company lease land , they had a 2000 acres lease but always "hunted" on our firebreaks, i never understood that logic... i cant prove anything or i would have kicked someones *** , but they would sit on our property line and "complain" about our animals , wish i knew who to contact about their lease when that all went down. Karma's a b@@ch and i am sure it will come back around to who ever did it.

WDH · January 18, 2014, 07:29:31 AM

We also had a rule that no stands could be put within a certain distance of the property line. I cannot remember the exact distance, but it seem like that it was 100 feet. Then, if we got a complaint that someone was hunting adjoining property from a stand on our property, we had grounds for taking action. Hunting can bring out the worst in some people.

red oaks lumber · January 21, 2014, 07:29:59 PM

my first coop was a little one, then i thought if little is good big must be better right?

the coop measures 16x 36 the enclosed part is concrete floor, heated and a stereo for the girls easy listening. i can run 70 hens with no real issues, there is a trap door that goes to the outside run that i keep a towel over so they can go in and out as they wish.
i made lap siding for the outside but, my wife isn't sure if she wants wood or steel so almost 2 yrs later i'm still waiting :D