{"id":11,"date":"2012-03-12T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cthreepo.com\/chickens\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-03-12T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:11:22","slug":"ive-been-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/ive-been-working\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve been working"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sorry for neglecting this blog fo so long.<\/p>\n

Our Chicks arrive from MacMurray’s<\/a> in early April, so I have been working on the Chicken Coop.<\/p>\n

Final dimensions were:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I used 64inch studs so the inside height is about 6ft plus the peaked roof.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Raising the roof took one day and a partial sheathing took a day.<\/p>\n

I mostly finished sheathing this weekend. I still have to cut out the windows and trim the sheathing.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 All this in the weeks before the chickens arrive.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/chickens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}