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wbvs58 said:
Tell us a bit about it, doesn't look like the chickens are going to live in there.

Ken
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I still need to put in a roost bar, I have not decided where or how I am going to build it. The shed is 12x12, I'm only giving my sister a small area for the chickens, 6x6. I figure she can put about 9 chickens in there. I think that is going to be plenty chickens. For what it cost I could have bought a lot of eggs. I was going to put a concrete floor in there, but concrete is way to high, I was able to build a floor out of treated plywood and treated 2x4's way cheaper. Five sack concrete is $205 per yard here. There is a four yard minimum, and for this shed it would only take a little under two.
 
CowboyRam said:
Finished my chicken house conversion. I converted a building that I kept my irrigation stuff in. I did not giver her the whole space; I still need some space for my irrigations stuff, just not the whole building.

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Is that an electric nest??? What are the other things hanging on the walls? Do the cabinets have a function?
 
Travlr said:
Is that an electric nest??? What are the other things hanging on the walls? Do the cabinets have a function?
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Not really an electric nest. It is a timer to allow the roost bar down so the chickens can get into the nest box. That way they don't nest in there during the night. The cabinets are for storage. Anything from supplies for the chickens to my irrigation supplies; like dam gates, to pipe gaskets, I will probably put my fencing materials in there as well.
 
CowboyRam said:
Not really an electric nest. It is a timer to allow the roost bar down so the chickens can get into the nest box. That way they don't nest in there during the night. The cabinets are for storage. Anything from supplies for the chickens to my irrigation supplies; like dam gates, to pipe gaskets, I will probably put my fencing materials in there as well.
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And the silver box in the picture with the fan? How much does an electric, automated roost, nesting box cost?
 
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CowboyRam said:
I still need to put in a roost bar, I have not decided where or how I am going to build it. The shed is 12x12, I'm only giving my sister a small area for the chickens, 6x6. I figure she can put about 9 chickens in there. I think that is going to be plenty chickens. For what it cost I could have bought a lot of eggs. I was going to put a concrete floor in there, but concrete is way to high, I was able to build a floor out of treated plywood and treated 2x4's way cheaper. Five sack concrete is $205 per yard here. There is a four yard minimum, and for this shed it would only take a little under two.
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Thanks, it looks a bit too flash for the chooks to roost in. I thought it might just have been a room for processing the eggs.
About 8 years ago Pam and I fabricated a chicken caravan when our daughter was going to get into pasture raised eggs to handle about 300 hens with central double row of nest boxes with roll away trays and excluder on a timer that pushed them out at night time. We built it all ourselves after looking at a few photos and videos of things, worked well but it never got used as our daughter decided not to proceed with doing the eggs. It is still sitting out in the paddock, I'll have to sell it one day, I'll get some photos of it.

Ken
 
Will your stuff be separated from the chickens? If not, just know that every square inch in there will be covered in chicken shyt and chicken shyt dust.
 

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