Saturday, April 6, 2013

Building the Coop



Friday, March 29, 2013
 
Coop construction began with a trip to Home Depot, where we gather an assortment of 2x4's, plywood, and screws.  After bringing everything home and unloading, we began measuring and cutting.
 


Slowly the outer frame of the coop began to take shape.


I am not a carpenter, so the roof framing was a bit of a challenge.  However, we managed to come up a design that worked for our purposes.  Next was the roof decking.

 

Once the walls of the hen house started to go up, the coop really began to take shape.



Notice we built this coop on our back patio.  This is not the coop's final location.  Any one board or piece of plywood doesn't weight that much, but when you attach several piece of wood together,they begin to get quite heavy.

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