Fixing up the chicken coop
We fixed up an 20 year old chicken coop on our farm. Came out nice. I'll continue updating as I do more.
Well after moving into our house in Nov and surviving the cold (not that cold we are in Oregon after all) and the constant rain, etc... I had been eyeing the chicken coop to fix. With 25 chickens coming and later more of them it had to be done quick. It is about 20-25 years old according to the county (it had permits amazingly.)
Here's a before picture:
Here's an after from relatively the same angle:
To get from before to after I pressure washed the coop fairly hard and removed the graying from having no paint. If the coop wasn't good wood it wouldn't have survived. I wanted the coop to soak the paint in some so I used no primer. We used Ace Hardware latex barn paint in red and white due to cost. It went on like real quality paint (I use to be a painting contractor) we'll test the durability over the next few years. With no primer that dried wood soaked it in good, the building is 8ft wide x 16ft long and about 12ft at the peak. It took about 7 gallons of red for two coats and 1 of white for trim.
I also built my own walk for the chickens to come out and the doors for it already existed. I did a red and white stripping for fun, and used some lattice I had around so the chickens wouldn't slide coming out (those are white) and plywood for ramp (that's red) See below:
I will show nesting boxes made from scrap wood in a future update to this article.
Here's a before picture:
Here's an after from relatively the same angle:
To get from before to after I pressure washed the coop fairly hard and removed the graying from having no paint. If the coop wasn't good wood it wouldn't have survived. I wanted the coop to soak the paint in some so I used no primer. We used Ace Hardware latex barn paint in red and white due to cost. It went on like real quality paint (I use to be a painting contractor) we'll test the durability over the next few years. With no primer that dried wood soaked it in good, the building is 8ft wide x 16ft long and about 12ft at the peak. It took about 7 gallons of red for two coats and 1 of white for trim.
I also built my own walk for the chickens to come out and the doors for it already existed. I did a red and white stripping for fun, and used some lattice I had around so the chickens wouldn't slide coming out (those are white) and plywood for ramp (that's red) See below:
I will show nesting boxes made from scrap wood in a future update to this article.
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