Backyard Poultry
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| The New Door |
If you thought those nest boxes were something, take a look at this door! Here we are standing inside our shed, looking at the two lovely walls we built across the corner for our chicken house. Well, we had to grit our teeth and cut out a good-size hole (say, 24” by 72”) in that brand-new particle board wall. We used 2x4s to build a door frame around the opening, and a frame for the door. A piece of the cut-up wall filled in the lower panel in the door, and the top we left open. (By the way, my brother drew up the entire design for this door from scratch!) We covered the opening with 1/2” hardware cloth, and also made a styrofoam insulation piece to block it up for cold nights. It’s great for winter ventilation since it opens into the shed rather than right outside.
3 comments:
That is pretty clever. How big is the shed?
Awesome door! Looks like the design worked perfectly.
The shed is about four times as big as the house, so maybe 10' by 20'. It's pretty old and has a dirt floor, so we had to seal it up a bit for the henhouse.
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