Building an observation brood coop for chicks
We felt like our DIY
table top brood coop needed an upgrade, and today was a perfect day
for it.
The main entrance is a
salvaged dryer door. An old piece of plexiglass came together as one of
the walls and will allow us to check on the chicks from the kitchen
window.
I remembered we had an old
plastic cargo carrier in the barn and decided to take a page from
Joey's mini
chicken coop and make it fit for our new chick roof.
The plan is to use 4 bungee
cords to secure the roof so we can easily take it off for easy access.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I know! I was thinking as we built that Mark's choice of paying a bit more to build with screws from day 1 on the farm has really paid off. We use the same wood (and dryer door) over and over!
And we can tell the long time readers if they recognize Colonel Sanders from the early days of the Avian Aqua Miser.