only cost £4.50

[karminski]

see you can do things on the cheap ,this morning i made my 2 little millifluer bantams thier own house out of a office 3 drawer unit all i did was remove the drawers add a perch and made the wooden drawer bits into a 2 part door ohh and added loads of vaseline into any holes and gaps i still need to put it under a proper roof but i am shattered so thats tomorrows job .

 

[chrismahon]

I'm suitably impressed Karminski. £4.50 for a filing cabinet is cheap, but for a chicken coop!!!!. Presume the Onduline roof will provide the ventillation. Nice touch would be to put the handles onto the new door and draw horizontal lines on, so it still looks like a filing cabinet!

 

[karminski]

:lol: no £4.50 for the 3 hinges i had to buy as i had run out, the unit was free i get loads from work .theres ventilation at the top which is covered by wire to stop anything getting in and as for that roof it is only temp new onduline covering is going up tomorrow unless i need that for this other new house which wont get built until i know it is totally mite free { so far so good to major pressure washes } .i think they like it :lol:the 2 smaller doors at the top are battened together to kinda make a stable door affect .

 

[BabyBantam]

What a fantastic idea, but can you not just keep them in the draws . Really good idea for an isolation unit too. Off to the car boot sale tomorrow....

 

[tygrysek75]

Happy chickens filing 08 08 08 :lol: 10 :lol: 10

 

[karminski]

i did think of that :lol: but decided against it , was also thinking about making one into a broody box only took me a few hours to do just shows you can use anything really but i will know in the morning if its ok i'll let the girls decide 17 if they come out chrippy then i know its great if they come out all moopy and miserable then i know it failed , had to do something for them as lanky doodle picked on them each time they wanted to go to bed so now they can go into thier own house with harmony :lol: :lol:

i am part tempted to turn my wardrobe into a coop thats if i decide to rip it out my room or should i say when ever my room gets replasted as long as its kept dry then theres no harm in using it as a coop

 

[BabyBantam]

Moopy chickens in the wardrobe with lanky doodle - now I know I'm on another planet

 

[karminski]

great name for a chicken isnt it , when she hatched her legs were so long and she had the most tiny body so i called her lanky doodle thing is now though shes actully quite a pretty girl her dad was one of my maran cockerals but her mum was a brown bird with no real breed to her so lanky is maran colouring and markings with hints of brown its quite nice to look at when the sun hits her the brown shines out more .
p.s i think they liked thier new house :lol:

 

[Philcott]

Very clever idea! Did you use all three drawer fronts to make the door, or is it just covered at the bottom - just trying to get my head around how it shuts for night=time! Darn clever though!

 

[karminski]

yes i did phil i took out all peices of the metal sections which then just left the wood and battened the two top smaller sections together so it works as a stable door leave bottom shut leave top open but both can be shut and locked but for this coop i keep the top shut and the bottom open { confusing lols} , i need 2 of those hook eye things but homebase never had any so i need to order them from screwfix so at the mo the doors are just wedged sht with a bit of wood and its all ready been christened lanky went in there and laid an egg :lol: :lol: if this one rots then i just get another from work and make a new one already have the hinges etc so pretty cool .
i did just go out and but 2 pvc sheets so now its dry under the combined feed shelter / housing area .
just got to start building the other coop tomorrow and thats going to be used for the broodies{ combined run } but i am a bit concerned that the house might be to far up for any chicks although from what i saw of my last 2 that cleared 5 inches of the ground when they were 2 days old then i dont think i'll have much to worry about .