roost bars

Happy Sunday all- I am running my brain ragged trying to figure out my build for aviary style coop I am working on. The coop and run are one and the same, with the entire area being roofed but otherwise open since my location is hot and humid (Puna, Hawaii). Some others in the area have literal...

Roosting Area

This is the inside of my coop. I still have to put hardware cloth in the window holes but I’m ready to put up the roosting bars and I have no idea the best way to do it or what material is best.... 2x4s? Large dowels? Natural branches? Do you screw a bracket into the walls and put them up or...

Oh wow, when I had my contractor build a chicken run across the back of the old chicken barn that came with my small country house, I was intimidated. I thought, now I've gone and done it. It's built with heavy timber centers and 2x4s, has a metal skirt buried a foot and a half into the ground...

Hi! I designed my coop and had someone local build it. I didn't give a ton of info/direction on the roosts, other than I wanted to be able to remove them if needed. I've known all summer that my roosts weren't exactly "right." But haven't really figured out what I want to do to fix them...

If you have two roosts in the same coop, are they equal heights or different? Please post why. Also please check out this other poll: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-shape-of-roosts-do-you-use-in-your-chicken-coop.1403365/

Part 3 of my Coop DeVille project….squirrels, day spa, roost and poop board V 5.0, ventilation and Zen.... June 22. Squirrels! And this was the FB post - a fun notice to the Coop DeVille residents. So all is fine and dandy in the run until the squirrels. They got through the bird netting and...

Hi again! Thank you so much for the help with the latches. I figured I should make a post for some general help. Our coop was built from a set of plans I found from an Etsy seller, it fit our space nicely. Due to time constraints, we had a local guy build it for us. He did a nice job, all things...

We have 9 week old chickens who have been living in the coop for a week now. They can’t figure out the roosting bars. We have two roostings bars ( 2x4’s ) over a poop board. Every evening , I go to the run and corral them into the coop. I place them on the roosting bar, but first I place each...

DH is designing our new coop today, or starting it anyway. I think I read somewhere that the roosting bar should be 2' from the wall. If that is so, does the poop board need to be 4'? Also, is a foot off the poop board high enough for the roost bar? In order to have windows that do not blow...

Hi Again! We built a lovely coop for our new flock of 12. It has two large roosts, one at about 3 feet high and another at about 4 feet high. The kids learned to roost without issue... but about 2 weeks ago (they’re 17 weeks old) I found them roosting in the rafters!! They are about 8 feet off...

Guess I should’ve posted this before the roost was officially built however at the time there was going to be only ten laying hens and it was figured that there was adequate room for them to sleep... Then reality sets in and I ended up ordering 20 egg layers of different varieties thinking I’d...

I am trying to figure out how to attach some nice branches to my run for the chickens to roost on. i cant figure out how to secure them to the run walls. i’d like to attach two branches across the width of my run which is only about 5 feet in width. any ideas or pictures would be helpful.

So many gorgeous coop design ideas but they nearly all have tiered roosts - one bar higher than the next. I understand about "pecking order" but is there any reason I shouldn't make all the roosts at the same height - maybe as if using a horizontal ladder?

I used to pick up coffee grounds from Starbucks every week. They kept a bin in their walk in dumpster area and allowed me to take whatever I wanted. I found this discarded bakery rack and picked it up thinking it might come in handy. I ended up mounting it horizontally as roost bars in my coop...

hello! I was contacted by a friend who knew someone who needs to re-home their two silkies. I love silkies and have wanted to adopt some soon. Turns out they hatched the same month (october '17) as my current crew - russian orloff (Polina), buff orphinton (Betty), Barred Rock (Darla) and Easter...

I would like to make the best use of the interior coop space of (only) 8x8 shed coop, and I like the design shown in this https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/reasoning-behind-stair-stepping-the-roost.1065008/#post-16217710 thread - with whole wall of brooder boxes under whole wall of same...

Hi all! We are getting close to having our 8x16 Wood's coop "livable for chickens and predator proof".... "Done" to me will mean painted all nice and pretty on the outside and I don't know when that will happen! :p Regarding the roost bars - here's the plan in the book...

Please share the inside of your smaller coops. I have a 5x6 coop that we built this spring. I am not 100% happy with the way the plans have the roosts set up. I am wondering how others have set up the inside of their smaller coops. Where are your roosts? Food and water? Thanks!