while our project is to buildin an all-season check acute make we have all the supplies we need it's kinda walk along with a three foot cube for the coupe with a nine foot run the mainframe is going to be for crushing for you to wait for if they're cut to 12 feet long at all that'll be the main spray the coupe the exterior will be 1/2 inch pilot have two sheets should be piping reply on insulator of 1 inch hard styrofoam over here plan to insulate our inside of the coop and we'll need to cover it to keep the chickens from pecking that the styrofoam so I have both 3/8 supply and a sheet up quarter inch chef's mahogany veneer we're trying to keep supplies as as small gauge as possible to reduce the weight of the coop we have two 1 by 2's and a 2 by 2's for the structure and trim and very important link our chicken wire we have two rolls half inch chicken wire it's not easy to find that 1/2 inch we found but very important to keep the whole town small weasel don't hear them lastly piece of one and a quarter inch pipe since we haven't allowed to seal it up pretty tight insulation will need to ventilate it for the winter time all right put the frame together it's all foot pressure-treated two by fours for the mainframe connect with crosses top pressure trees along the bottom three along the bottom I attached the half-finished chicken wire with half-inch staples and then clapped it down with the client in far-end there's no plywood so I used to operate 2x4 holds down the chicken wire and writes vertical support you're losing your two preps half-inch plywood on the floor and one it's styrofoam just pressure fitted in there for now bluff the pepper with that some thin plywood to keep the chickens were packing it coming together and of course the pen is good for keeping babies in - just kidding good job then Oh looks like you have a chicken door in oh yes I built this wall here nine and a half Y 9 a half inches high and curved on the sides and I smooth the edges so the chickens don't get slippers on the way through I've lined the inside the sides but the styrofoam mm-hmm on this side use the corner mahogany in the cabinet I used inch and a half screws so they wouldn't poke through the other side of here I pinched plywood on the outside plus one inch tire folds which equals one and a half and with the quarter inch mahogany nothing the penetrate the other side the screws will grab the half-inch plywood on the other side okay I worked out well I think my next step is to put them to Haugen II upside on my back ends and then cover this side I think I'm gonna use strips of one inch plywood to a barrier to the insulation yeah bear even insulation through the chickens can turn yeah there are little peckers I think first that little peckers we're getting close still need to enslave the floor on the bottom side nobuggy hey here's a next chicken poop update what the man is the lost cliff I believe we've felt the finished making the Box finished insulating the top the bottom and the sides but at chicken door small chicken doors been built which we didn't bother insulated and the main door to access the coop we we sandwiched styrofoam between half-inch plywood and three strips the half-inch plywood to box it in so that the styrofoam wasn't exposed and you got your oh go ahead and talk about the roof I've got three rails to screw that the metal roofing on it's gonna fit to fight for an edge to right some rise and some slope down to a one inch flat piece of board to for the bottom edge we're up to two by four partly in the middle to provide some silver styrofoam placed in between next up extending the top and the bottom rails oh I'm gonna coop put the metal on roll cat ends of pilot okay I see you got your chicken door in here oh yeah it slides well but we're gonna have to we have to figure out a system to be all their degrees I still think a plunger system would be better I think it well we have a roof on it health very important part stopping and rockers that the roof - let's do it - what's that's done it should be weasel proof that nice metal roof tilted to allow for the snow to come off I'm gonna give you something to make sure the edges are too sharp but I nipped off the corners they were extremely sharp but consider its head height for little kids I'll do something what was a nerd or something like that to get rid of the sharp edge inside the next box is complete where's not completing a subfloor with that one inch rise and a stroll in the back while we do that next Peter you've been mangled edges to try and keep the chicken just fence post and you know they're pooping on the inside and the water dish a heated water dish will go right here and I'm assuming we're gonna have a light up in that corner event eventually - before winter yeah it's springtime right now so I'll get to the light by winter yes look at the white on a timer off the heater water dish delightful tea time okay go straight or I think both so lots of fine details oh one other thing and forget the next step would be to put a small feat bin on therefore pay for the chickens oh that's right the grit the chickens needs a grip all right so we're finally done this chicken coop it's already been in use for a few weeks but we're gonna show you how easy it is to move this thing around as you can see we got wheels on it now on the inside there's our chickens they're nesting spot right here they going nest a little bit we usually have the water up here we're just in the process of moving the coop again and they're they're stooped to stand on and my husband's gonna show you how easy is to move this slanted metal roof nope we have a rope in the front here and all he does is lift and move it to wherever he wants tada so in the summertime we put it close to the edge of the bush for shade and in the winter we move it over there close to the house so you can put the electricity up and everything Aereo perfect and that's our water dish there and the winter we use a heated water dish heated dog dish all right thanks Ben for giving us a demonstration we left in the summertime lots of bugs and mosquitoes and now we're just adding one extra part here where shows how everything is wired in the light and the the water dish and the vent and the sliding door right so we waited until the snow yeah so this was done yesterday really good for this purpose on the inside and all the pow'rs going to do here's the heated water dish with the light bulb instead of using a metal box and behind I I want to use what because I was concerned that the metal would attract lots of moisture cold wet hazy a lot of frosting on the walls and I thought it's best to keep that away from the electrical are you guys warming up in there hmm oh yeah like box he was talking about again in case yeah I see it really we didn't want to go too big and too much heat leave in the winter but we didn't want to just some small ever get plugged up by frost you put one elbow on the end to keep the rain snow and wind out and also in between the connection I fold up a piece of chicken wire to keep leaves a little X ever so anything below minus-10 we shut them in at night so you just dip your nail in there so it stays that will close them in after it gets dark the timer if you have it coming on really early then it ensures that the chickens lay eggs all winter yes we do bank the entire chicken coop with snow so it'll be egg glued over and then we'll have a snow wall built all the way around to block the the north wind from pounding up against the door even though it is insulated and if you want to know what that looks like check out our how to keep a chicken warm video which is already up with Orion orientation it's really important that we put it pointing this way we are gonna put boughs along this side back snore snowfall top we'll use the run right under there they really seem to like that here on the cold winter days and I on your camera person you