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The coop is on the property!

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Our coop was delivered this morning arriving just before dawn. David Rice, the owner of David's Chicken Coops in Turtletown TN and his son Luke did an outstanding job of putting the coop on its foundation. My wife and I also assisted. David did a remarkable job backing his truck and trailer downhill weaving around many trees to get to the foundation. Kudos to David and Luke. IT LOOKS AWESOME!
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Our coop was delivered this morning arriving just before dawn. David Rice, the owner of David's Chicken Coops in Turtletown TN and his son Luke did an outstanding job of putting the coop on its foundation. My wife and I also assisted. David did a remarkable job backing his truck and trailer downhill weaving around many trees to get to the foundation. Kudos to David and Luke. IT LOOKS AWESOME!
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Our coop was delivered this morning arriving just before dawn. David Rice, the owner of David's Chicken Coops in Turtletown TN and his son Luke did an outstanding job of putting the coop on its foundation. My wife and I also assisted. David did a remarkable job backing his truck and trailer downhill weaving around many trees to get to the foundation. Kudos to David and Luke. IT LOOKS AWESOME! View attachment 35830 View attachment 35832 Our coop was delivered this morning arriving just before dawn. David Rice, the owner of David's Chicken Coops in Turtletown TN and his son Luke did an outstanding job of putting the coop on its foundation. My wife and I also assisted. David did a remarkable job backing his truck and trailer downhill weaving around many trees to get to the foundation. Kudos to David and Luke. IT LOOKS AWESOME! View attachment 35842 View attachment 35834 View attachment 35836 View attachment 35838 View attachment 35840
Looks great!
 
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Yeah it's made really well. All pressure treated 4x4s, 2x4s and 1" southern yellow pine with 2 coats of oil based stain. 14 gauge wire and I am adding 1/2" wire for more protection. Tweeking things here and there as I learn. I am working on the run foundations next. I'm thinking I will have to build a larger pen for the chicks cause they will soon outgrow the 3x4 brooder box before I put then in their coop and runs. I have the material (free)to make a 3'x8'x4' pen and put it out in our glassed sun room in the next couple of weeks before putting them in the coop. I added 6" of height to the brooder box today and put in a "y" shaped branch in for roosting. They took to the branch quickly. I moved the doors on the top up cause they were starting to jump and fly.
 
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Yes, a sun room is an excellent place for your bigger brooder. We always joke here on the Forum that a working coop and runs are never finished, I am always tweaking here and there too.
 
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The simple explanation is that chickens are an addiction.
Think of it this way, you've got someplace to walk on your property after work for a few minutes of chill time. Even my hubs who wasn't into chickens would walk out just to watch them for a while in the evening.
YES! I have a pop up canopy at the back side of our property behind an out building we built years ago with wooden spool for a table and a couple of camping chairs. I call it my "chillin hut". We have a freight railroad line 30 yards behind the property and I love the trains. The backdrop beyond the trees are 2 3,000 ft. mountains with a river running between them (Hiwassee River). Now with the coop I'll have another chillin spot. Life is Good!
 
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I saw he canopy in one of the pics. I wasn't sure it was there full time or for some special thing going on at the moment.

I sort of wish we hadn't left the N. Ga. mountains but fast forward a few years and it's turned out to be the right move.
That canopy in one of the coop photos is not the one behind the shack in the back. We put that one up temporarily for another reason (Sukkot). North Ga. mountains is a beautiful area. Where are you now if I may ask?
 
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Our coop was delivered this morning arriving just before dawn. David Rice, the owner of David's Chicken Coops in Turtletown TN and his son Luke did an outstanding job of putting the coop on its foundation. My wife and I also assisted. David did a remarkable job backing his truck and trailer downhill weaving around many trees to get to the foundation. Kudos to David and Luke. IT LOOKS AWESOME! View attachment 35830 View attachment 35832 Our coop was delivered this morning arriving just before dawn. David Rice, the owner of David's Chicken Coops in Turtletown TN and his son Luke did an outstanding job of putting the coop on its foundation. My wife and I also assisted. David did a remarkable job backing his truck and trailer downhill weaving around many trees to get to the foundation. Kudos to David and Luke. IT LOOKS AWESOME! View attachment 35842 View attachment 35834 View attachment 35836 View attachment 35838 View attachment 35840
Looks very nice. If you plan on automating the coop door to the add on runs, let me know. I have many different wiring diagram options
 
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Be careful driving tonight.

How are the birds getting from the run to the coop? Are you building a tunnel for them?

Want to talk about bad dirt, be glad you don't live over where I did on the Highland Rim. No rocks but the whatever it was was impenetrable. Most of it didn't perk. The tractor with an auger attached only penetrated the ground a couple of inches.
 
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The run on the left is even with the coop door on the left and I will cut the wire and make a tunnel. The one on the right I will have to make a ladder and a tunnel for their access. I also have a 100' roll of 1/2" black pvc coated mesh that I am adding to the runs for extra predator protection and 1/2" mesh for around the bottom of the coop. I moved the 3 week old chicks to a 4'x8'x4' high pen I built in our sun room and they are all doing great!!
 
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