I am sorry for neglecting this blog fo so long.

Our Chicks arrive from MacMurray’s in early April, so I have been working on the Chicken Coop.

Final dimensions were:

8ft long by 64 inches wide. It is larger because we want it to serve as a garden shed if the chickens don’t work out.

I used 64inch studs so the inside height is about 6ft plus the peaked roof.

I built the floor of 2x6s and put a bottom board of sheathing on that and then flipped it and put some particle board flooring down. I then built each wall of studs separately, assembled them and put them up.

The floor/cinder-block foundation took one weekend. The framing took 1 weekend. Undoing the framing because Erica did not like where I placed the door took another weekend.

Raising the roof took one day and a partial sheathing took a day.

I mostly finished sheathing this weekend. I still have to cut out the windows and trim the sheathing.

TODO: I have cut limber for white trim on the corners, around the windows, and under the roof. I have to put on roofing. I have to put on siding. I have to build a door. I need to insulate the walls and ceiling. I need to put in vents. I have to panel the interior. I have to paint the interior.  All this in the weeks before the chickens arrive.

Here are some pictures of the framing progress, the windows are in place but just setting there to give an idea of what it will look like: