Guide 83

Chicken coop with run 2 × 4 m for 6 – 9 hens

40 h · 5 days for two★★★materials 1 224 – 2 172 €

A coop you can walk into: nest boxes and door on the outside, a pull-out droppings board, perches in U-brackets and a 2 × 4 m run of 19 × 19 welded mesh with an anti-dig apron. A guide for advanced builders: 363 parts, a 45 × 70 timber frame, rafter and polycarbonate run-roof calculations for snow and a 5-day plan for two.

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27 pages A4 marten-proof run dimensioned drawings shopping list

What's in this guide

Sizing by numbers: m² per hen, perches, nest boxes, vents
Timber frame 45 × 70, 4 wall-frame drawings
Mono-pitch roof with OSB and EPDM — snow calculation
Posts in concrete and 19 × 19 mesh with an apron
Polycarbonate over the run at 5°, with expansion gaps
Hygiene: washable walls, droppings board, floor at 270

PDF, 27 A4 pages to print for the workshop · dimensioned drawings and illustrations · shopping list on a separate page so it can be torn out and taken to the store. You download it right after payment, access is for life.

Before you start building

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