After we made the decision to raise quail for eggs and meat I began building the coop. Luckily I work in construction so I am able to pick up scrap lumber that would otherwise be trashed or recycled, this is my most recent score that got me started: | |
I started with a basic rectangular frame using 4x4s for the legs which I placed on top of pieces of concrete and a 4x3 for the base front to support the mid-section weight. I attached the structure to the existing chicken run.
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I made a pitch in the roof.
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I was making it up as I went and decided to put two doors on the front and possibly a divider in the center to make 2 separate pens..?
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More roof support beams and 1/2" hardware cloth along the bottom:
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The only lumber I actually purchased was two eight foot 2x2s so I could make the doors:
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Next I framed out the doors. We also made the final decision to separate the coop into two pens so we can have two stages of birds in the one structure. So I added some support 2x4s in the center to hold the separating board: |
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