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  • Ideas wanted for temporary coop

    I want to rehome some rescue hens ,but need temporary coop for a few weeks ,to go into the run.as a new coop is to dear.
    so you clever people get your thinking hats on and throw me some ideas.please

  • #2
    Temporary because you've already got some hens and you need to integrate the two flocks?

    Dogs cage with some plastic and carpet covered over for the night...

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    • #3
      I used one of those plastic BBQ trolley things once. A kitchen cupboard? Any hutch?
      Is the run covered from rain?
      I've seen people using compost bins with the flap at the bottom as a pophole.
      Garden table with wire around the legs and a box inside for a nest box?

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      • #4
        Yes, integrateing the two flocks and yes the run is covered from rain ...like the compost bin idea

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        • #5
          The Poultry Guide - Cheap Chicken Coop using a Compost Bin

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          • #6
            How many chickens?

            HomebaZe are selling of some large 145Ltr Black storage containers (on sort of casters) with a lid. they are excellent value at about £13 and with a hole cut in the side and a door/flap screwed to a hinge it would be cheap and effective for 4-5 hens. They were on special so check your local store(s), they are not on the website now.

            Also found this as similar without wheels but £20
            https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ward-Litre-...+storage+boxes

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            • #7
              Its only for two and that has given me an idea.thanks

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              • #8
                Depending on where the hinges are, maybe you could turn it on its side and use the lid as a roof, propped up on ?sticks?

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                • #9
                  what about this if i cut the lids in half.
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                  • #10
                    Will the chooks have a separate run to the others?
                    How many chooks do you have now?

                    Only asking 'cos when I picked up my last 2 rescues, I waited until dark then put them straight in the chook kennel with the one I already had. Let them out again really early and they just got on with it. A little bit of squabbling, but nothing much.

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                    • #11
                      I will close off a 1/4 of the run for them.
                      I have two hen at the moment.
                      I heard they might have weak legs and its a little jump to get on the way to the roosting bar of the other coop ...its a shed....and dopey is a bully ,so i would like them to get a bit stronger first.

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                      • #12
                        That Blue box would be fine, they will crawl out under the lip if you open the lower flap. Give them a brick or roost inside and close them up at dusk. Think about ventilation if the seals are good and drill/cut holes.

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                        • #13
                          The girls are home

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                          • #14
                            Lovely! They look good
                            How many did you get?

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                            • #15
                              only 3 , and is already trying to have a go at the ones aready there.

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