My cousin got chickens a month or two before we did and recently discovered that one of them was a rooster. Well where we live you are allowed to have chickens but not roosters, inside the city limits. There are basically two options eat him or give him away. Well, his daughter is quite attached and just couldn't possibly eat the little guy so he is coming to live with us. I told her she could always come visit him. She still wasn't happy to see him leave. They named him Shy.
Well Shy is quite a bit bigger than our other rooster and I don't want to have to worry about them getting in fights later so we decided to build another coop.
We decided to try to do this one cheap and use as much recycled wood as we could. We have lots of random boards of different sizes in the barn, we just grabbed all the 2x4s that we could find.
we also had chicken wire so we stretched it across the bottom and I used wire to tie it together and make sure there weren't any gaps that other animals could get through.
Something we did buy was hardware cloth for the sides of it. I have read some horror stories about hawks and coons grabbing through chicken wire and getting to the flock. Chicken wire is really meant to keep the chickens in more than it is to keep the predators out. So we forked up the extra money to protect them. We attached them with fencing staples which are a pain in the butt and now I truly understand why someone invented the staple gun.
We didn't have any plywood big enough in the barn so we bought 2 pieces of that for the roof.
This is the door before we attached the hardware cloth.
The finished product. Right now it is more of a run and we put the old "duck house" in it for him to sleep in, since it wasn't being used at the moment.
Patrick has been talking about getting another flock of chickens anyway so this just gives us the option. We don't want Shy to be lonely.
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