Chicken Coop Build: How To Make A Roof For Chicken Run

How To Make A Roof For Chicken Run

The roof is attached to the three horizontal purlins at front middle and back. I never would have imagined wed turn it into a chicken coop garden shed and chicken run.

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After we finished the chicken coop renovation of the depot we started building the chicken run.

How to make a roof for chicken run. Im sure one of the moderators will move this qustion over to the chicken pages. Id been meaning to do it for a while and had earmarked the polycarbonate sheets that had been the roof of our porch for the project but when we had the porch replaced in the late summer i wasnt. It helps to keep the chicken run cooler in the summer.

I really want to make a roof. A run of this size if it is used as the primary daytime habitat for your chickens will be adequate for 4 5 chickens provided you also have an appropriately sized coop. I tend to call both the chicken run.

This allows for easy accessibility for you to clean maintain feed and visit with your flock easily. But i am tired of the rainsnowmud issue. Add outside roosts and perches.

We installed a metal roof on our coop that drains into a 55 gallon rain barrel. There are a number of chicken run designs that manufacturers use and a few other home made runs that are successful. The first big step was laying out a large.

Make sure you can walk into the run. One nice benefit to a solid roof is being able to install a rain barrel to provide water for the chickens as long as its not shingles. The configuration is a shed roof which just means that its higher and the front than at the back so rainwater pours off at the back of the house where is causes less trouble.

Galvanized steel roofs for chicken coops one of my low houses with walls just four feet tall and a simple galvanized metal roof. I really want to do the corrugated plastic the ones that allow some light through. Its currently covered with chicken wire to keep hawks out.

I would put a roof on for a couple of reasons 1 to keep the foxes out and 2 during the winter and spring summer and autumn it will keep the rain sleet and snow out thus helping to stop the ground turning to a muddy mess. It also allows your chickens to get up off the ground to higher levels of safety. This is an 8x6 fully enclosed chicken run made primarily of 2x4s.

I am in the process of researching my options for putting a roof over my run area. We started right up against the chicken coop first moving the dirt around to make it as flat as we could. Makes it nice since the whole operation is about 100 yards from the house and we dont have to schlep water any distance.

There are no rafters. Since wed offed one of their species on saturday i decided to do a nice thing for our chickens on sunday i roofed part of their run. It is difficult to say when a chicken run becomes a fenced off area see my page on fencing chickens if you have a large area to fence off as a run.

Mine currently houses 3 adult hens. Most of my houses have shed roofs made of galvanized steel roofing. But i think that might be a bit of a project.

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