Coop Almost Finished

It's been a couple of weeks, but the coop is almost finished.  Between the cold evenings, busy weekends, and being sick, things just haven't got done as fast as we would like.  Anyway, here are some pictures of the coop in progress.

Tractor picking up coop

I forgot to start the coop by building it on legs, so after I got some of the walls covered and it felt sturdy, I put the forks on the tractor and picked it up.  I also wanted to make sure the tractor could pick up the coop, since I will need to move it out of the barn.
 

View of interior

The egg box is built on the side of the coop.  It is 22"x12" and the roof goes from 12" to 16", giving a 4-12 pitch.  I should have grabbed a picture before the siding went on, but if you look at the picture above, you will see that the shingles and the roof extend inside the coop a couple of inches.  I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to have any leaks, and trying to keep the cost down, this wound up working out really well.

Egg box

Now we just need some warm weather and the chickens are just about ready to head to their new home. I added a roost bar for them to hang out on since they were jumping on top of their waterer. 

I used some scrap pine from the trim of the coop.  The legs are 4 inches long, the roost is 24 inches, and the leg supports are 4 inches.  A couple of them are starting to sleep on it at night.  We are all enjoying watching the chicks grow and get their colors.  It's funny, the pecking order was established almost on day one and the light colored bird on the left of the roost has established herself as the queen bird.