PALLET chicken house

[RedThorn]

I'll send the dog out with the camera

Sooooooo...... did the dog oblige and go outside and take the photo?

[LostthePlot]

Here is my 'pallet' house. The girls have been snug as a bug in here for 3 months now.

[lynda66]

Sooooooo...... did the dog oblige and go outside and take the photo?

nope, she swore at me and refused to go out in the snow

[RedThorn]

oh well give her a hug instead. I'm sure she'll appreciate it more anyway

[MaureenHall]

Not surprised she swore at you, you lock her out!! Poor thing

[lynda66]

yeah i know ...... although she's 11 now, and that's the first time i've ever actually gone out and left her out ...... normally she shouts at the door after 5 mins.

shes just shared some leftover spaghetti with the chooks, and now she's snuggled up with me under a blanky on the sofa, doesn't want to go anywhere

[lynda66]

right today has been fairly productive,(despite the blizzards) rescued a door complete with handle from a skip the other night ..... next door neighbour has given me a load of thick wood, which is now a door frame on one side, and the other side will go up this week. and theres even enough for a couple of perches.

the door is now attached ..... and opens and everything

wasn't sure about the roof, so it had to come down, which wasn't quite as hard as it sounds, i pulled out a couple of nails, and the wind caught it, and it landed all neatly in the back garden, and thankfully didn't break (glad i know that for the next high winds)

so i have a piece of 8X4 board on the top of the house now, this is nailed on and makes the whole house much more sturdy (ie it doesn't wave about in the wind)

so i'm gong to attach more planks to the underneath of the roof (2 wasn't enough) then lay that on the top of the wood, and attach it.

so hopefully tomorrow it won't be snowing, and i can get the door frame finished.

just gotta pick up some hardboard to line it with, son and his mate have just gone to pick up some freecycle lino, so in theory, by next weekend, the babies should be outside

[lynda66]

well rob and alex got back with the lino, both of them are blue coloured,(lino rolls not the kids) and one has shiny bits, i'm gonna put that in the nest box, give em summat to peck at whilst waiting for their eggs to hatch

also have about half a packet of laminate flooring, which will save me having to buy quite as much hardboard ....... it's gonna look dead posh

[frias]

Phew, sounds like hard work to me. Thank goodness I had a husband to make our coop. (Knew he would come in useful one day) Hope the weather holds out for you.

[lynda66]

I was hoping to have a son to build it ..... wish he would start coming in useful when i need him to be

[MaureenHall]

Have you got roofing felt for the roof or are you going to put lino on instead?

[lynda66]

no, we have a proper fibreglass roof, looks dead cool, just attaching it is being a pain.

[lynda66]

latest pics in the snow

[lynda66]

more ........ it did look better while the roof was still on lol

[SuburbanFarmerBarnes]

Just read the thread

Thats amazing. That things bigger than my flat, do you need planning permission? When I started reading I imagined a small coop, then it just got bigger and bigger! That must have been so much work, brilliant to use free materials as well. I made some raised beds out of old pallets but copped out and brought the wood for my coop (I thought it was big untill I read this).

Bravo!