Chicken Coop Build: Playhouse As Chicken Coop

Playhouse As Chicken Coop

We filled it in with pea gravel and placed the playhouse on top of the platform. My dh is still trying to get me to give away the chicks but i am holding out for the chicken run with playhouse coop.

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Each hen requires 2 to 3 square feet of living space.

Playhouse as chicken coop. To use the dog run we need to flatten some land. Give a playhouse a makeover into a safe and roomy chicken coop. First we want to thank everyone who has posted their stories of building their own coops and how they upgraded existing ones we couldnt have completed ours without your help.

Check out how we turn a problem excess leaves into a solution rich compost with chickens. Doing the wood based run would allow us to customize the run to our terrain. 15 when we moved to our new house we had to start from scratch building a chicken coop.

The playhouse came with two openings for the kids. Day 4 of the great american farm tour. I imagine a lot of folks have sheds forts or playhouses that have outlived their usefulness.

Obviously youre not going to end up with the same end product as me but hopefully some of what. How to convert a playhouse to a chicken coop the area we were putting in on wasnt real flat so we did prop it up on concrete cornerstones so we could level it. You will need chicken wire about three rolls a 100 pack of washers 100 pack of.

Playhouse chicken coop craft how to the homestead uncategorized november 13 2013 comments. This months cool coop is an great example of repurposing. The chicken coop doors.

I needed to build doors before i let the girls sleep in their new digs. Day 4 of the great american farm tour. Chicken coop from a playhouse.

In total this project took about three hours. Unless you have the same exact swingset that we did this instructable will only give you an idea of what i did to transform my playhouse into a coop. The opening became my door so that i could installed a full length door albeit only 17 wide.

Our biggest problem with all of this is we have no flat land. Calculate the number of hens your playhouse can support. One was just a 43x 17opening and the other was a43x17 opening with a little door and window in it.

Create and attach a chicken run to your new coop if you prefer to keep the hens contained during the day. No particular question on this just an update on where we are at this time.

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