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Beth C:

--- Quote ---I just don\'t like bending to clean the lower coops, so my son generally gets to do those.
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Ah, sounds like the perfect job for a 5 year old! ;)

Thanks for the pics - they\'re real close to what I was thinking of, and it helps a lot to have the finished product to look at.

One concern I have is heat building up. It gets hot very early here. I\'ll probably construct them with as much wire as possible for ventilation - any other ideas?

John:
The chicken barn has an exhaust fan in the gable on the east side to draw out the heat as needed.  A thermostat turns it on and off and I usually have it set to kick in at 85 to 90 degrees.
Lots of 2 by 4 welded wire is great, but you need about a 6\" board across the bottom front to stop the birds from \"scratching\" all the wood shavings out of the coops.

John:
I'm not hatching chicks yet like some of you, but I took advantage of the mid weather over the past few days to setup all my breeding pens.  This is 6 to 8 weeks sooner than usual for me and I plan to hatch a month sooner than usual.  Here are a couple photos.  This is a new unit similar to the one I posted a photo of above.
Even though I use LED rope lights in some indoor coops I've decided to also use those old 7 watt Christmas lights that have been stored in the basement for years. 

John:
I\'ve gotten rid of some old bantam coops and built some new LF breeding coops.  That gives me 37 different breeding coops between all the Ameraucanas and Chanteclers for 2011.

Guest:

--- Quote from: John ---I\'m not hatching chicks yet like some of you, but I took advantage of the mid weather over the past few days to setup all my breeding pens.  This is 6 to 8 weeks sooner than usual for me and I plan to hatch a month sooner than usual.  Here are a couple photos.  This is a new unit similar to the one I post a photo of above.
Even though I use LED rope lights in some indoor coops I\'ve decided to also use those old 7 watt Christmas lights that have been stored in the basement for year.  
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I really like this set up and I have the perfect place I could build one.  Do you by chance have a building sketch for a mediocre carpenter like myself.  Or could you email me a ton of pictures so I could try to reproduce it.  What is the total dimension of this unit and what are the individual pen sizes.

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