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| The Chicken Sedan - 2019 |
We finished the Chicken Sedan (chicken coop) in 2019. Our first significant landscape structure, it took too long but the continuous fiddling with demo'ing a playset and re-using/upcycling all the materials to build a screen door, rebuild the roof, add metal roofing, added swinging bar door, and enclosing the run area in chicken wire and hardware cloth was just a lot of work.
We installed an auto-door, a very nice one made in Texas. Very easy to install and I'd definitely recommend them. We chose a swinging door because we didn't have space above the door for it to lift up but did have the space to swing out.
Initially I had a ladder inside the coop however I found the smaller birds really had a long drop down and 2 of our birds ended up with bumblefoot, possibly because of that drop. It also was difficult for me to clean around. I gave up on the "cute ladder" design and one day just mounted a simple 2x4 along the left side. To my surprise, it worked out so much better. So easy for us to clean now while just standing on the ladder with a long rake.
The linoleum helps with the easy clean-up. I think because we bought a cheap piece on clearance, it ended up being a matte finish linoleum so we've had no problems with slippery-ness that some people complain about with linoleum.
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| The Chicken Sedan - with shade and sand run added. |
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| Re-arranged interior that works better now. 2x4 on closet shelf brackets is all we needed on the left side. For 8 hens, 3 nesting boxes are all they use. (Neck-neck and Ebony, the 2 broody birds this spring 2020 each take over the end boxes!) |
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| This ramp is still holding up. Even the silkies we were babysitting one summer learned to use this loooong ramp just fine! The slats placed about every 6 inches over some cheap outdoor carpet rugs really helped make this work. |
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