From movin cows to now movin chickens 🐓

Josh, if one of your hay wagons is missing it's floor you might want to consider replacing it with expanded metal. That way the 🐓💩 drops through to fertilize the pasture under the coop. Just a thought 🤔. Have a great day 😊.

So, for 100 birds they will need 25 lbs of food and roughly 30 gallons of water a day. Maybe take the front 2 ft of the "coop" and make an enclosed feed box that'll hold a weeks or more worth of feed. Attached hanging feeders will prevent you needing to pick them up daily when moving them around and maybe attach a spool for a hose to wind up on the coop. Being able to move everything all at once without having to move everything twice is worth the extra time.

As a carpenter, I’d like to suggest using bolts into the trailer to help hold the coop down. Also I’d probably open that floor up somehow and let the poo hit the ground out in the fields. No scooping it out.And I’d use 2x4 hanger brackets on the roof joists . That wind can get strong out in those fields.

Your dog at the beginning is a dead ringer for a dog I used to have when I was a kid. If you ever his off springs please put me at the front of the line. I swear that dog is just gorgeous, makes me feel like 9 years old every time I see him in your videos. Please please more videos of that dog.

One of your best videos!

It's a cool build, but as an old poulterer, I have one single criticism. Though the coop looks secure, it has a fatal flaw in its design and I went back and looked at your recent fox attack video to see if the flaw is still there and it appears to be. The flaw is this: When you attached the wire for venilation purposes, you used a staple gun to attach it. When you sided the coop, you lapped over the bottom edge of your wire with your siding. Spot on! But, the top edge of your wire is not lapped and I believe the side edges were also not lapped. This is a big vulnerability and it's really just a matter of time before a raccoon comes along and peels the wire away to gain entry. Even heavy duty fence staples are inadequate. That could be next year or five years from now, but eventually it will happen. It's a great build, but anytime you attach wire, all edges should be lapped just as you did with the lower edge. For the best results, run a 2x2 or similar strip along all wire edges and screw it down securely. I usually drill a pilot hole to prevent splitting. This will prevent raccoons and others from climbing up and working the wire loose to gain entry. If they gain entry to a coop like this that shelters as many hens as you plan to run in it, it'll make the losses you had from the fox attack seem like kid stuff because they'll literally kill every bird inside, be it one or a hundred. You'd be surprised how many people who keep poultry will eventually fall prey to this one single coop vulnerability.

Whyyyyy people saying you didn’t invent this chicken coop?!? Heck you invented chickens 🐓

Great job. The only thing missing is a auto door so you do not have open or close the door in the mornings or evenings.

Looks good! Nice having the capability mill the lumber right from your backyard when you come up short.

looks great. you’re eventually gonna get tired of cleaning it out though and switch out for a grated floor. need that fertilizer to go straight onto the ground.

Glad that you changed your mind and went with a single door... A double was just not necessary! Plus, you saved a buck or two and time...Great job man! :)

Roost bars to rear by door.. make pockets so they can be removed. Otherwise they poop on nest boxes and you will have to go way up inside to clean.. as a thought. This is neat idea for pastured raptors

Thanks for your service Josh! Great idea!

I bet you're lovin that saw mill. That is so cool when you have a little project and you just go make some lumber! Your chickens will be the envy of the neighborhood!

Love your sawmill. Love your build. God bless you and your wife.

Where’s Miss Stoneyridge been

Hey Josh, love the new chicken coop. I would highly suggest using bolts or screws to mount it to the trailer. I think nails are going to be pulled out real easy when you get a good wind storm is going to hit the side of that. Just a thought.

U are fantastic!! Great moments to see a man making something with his brain/hands..!!❤

Awesome stuff love what u are doing just found your channel a few months ago. Been a dairy farmer for over 25yr and ran 5000 head beef lot. Your are doing stuff right and the only way the cows should be raised

Find a little junk box to mount on the metal frame under it. That way, you can store a roll of plastic and a staple gun to close it up before the big storms come in.

Josh if you put a stand-off rail below and above chicken wire you could slide panels in if driven rain or freezing temps move in.

Great inspiration design! Only changes that I would make are to change the floor to be slatted to allow poop to drop through to the pasture, as well as installing the nest boxes at the entry door end of the wagon opposite of the roosting bars, just to further cut down on the amount of poop the girls will drop during the night on top of the nesting boxes. To further elaborate on that idea, I would even go as far as stacking the nesting boxes on one side of the entry end, and then have food and water on the other side of the entry end, and have the roosting bars over open floor.

On the next 1 you need to mount the nest boxes higher , need to be about 3 feet above the floor . what's to stop raccoons from getting in the back of nest boxes

This is my JAM! I love the builds on this channel. Can't wait to visit the place, and hopefully buy some North Carolina organic farm goodness.. I love this channel anytime I need some DIY therapy.

Josh, i have a mini hay wagon, and am planning a couple more. I use aircraft tires on them as they are very durable, and very inexpensive, since they are take-offs. They measure 3'x5'.

Josh you did fantastic job on the chicken mobile

Awesome build… this is a first time visiting your channel… liked it a lot. Put a chicken rooster picture on the 12x6 wall.

There is an attachment that fits on your cordless drill that works as a pair of tin snips. Pretty handy item to have

Hey Josh, You forgot to put in the roost poles for the chickens to roost on.

Good going Josh. Looks like you just built a great pasture "deer blind". lol Oh yeah, the chickens will love it too.

Have you ever considered having a contest where you have a small group tour and live "the farm life" for a day? You could get some free help on the farm and whoever gets to go gets some really cool experience homesteading.. Just a thought 🙂 I know i'd love to come hang out for a day, learn me some stuff and help you with some projects while there.

Great ideas employed. Similar design on the Wild and Wonderful channel that also incorporated a water catch system and water nipples. Your mobile coop looks great!!!!!

I’ve made a few videos and know how much goes into making them. This was a huge undertaking and I want to thank you for doing it. Gives me some really great ideas on making a mobile coop for our chickens. Thanks Stoney Ridge!

Its great building your nesting boxes

Cool mobile coup build Josh! That one came out great! I look forward to seeing what you do on the next two. Wooooo!

Anthor awesome video don't go the lumber yard make your own so cool.

Good job on the Coop. Add some blocking between rafters to keep pesky critters out of the hen house. Figure out a locking system for the egg doors for the same reason. Raccoons will find out pretty quick that there us a free lunch in there. Here where i live, i would also neeed a header in those openings where the nesting boxes are. Our sniw load can be pretty heavy. Other than these observations, i like what you have done. 😮 * edit for typos *

You have officially just constructed the first "Chicken Carney Cart"! Carney as in Festival/Carnival workers...

i love these types of videos from start to finish and you are designing on the fly. awesome job josh

Josh, love your re-purpose of the old hay wagon. I have two suggestions. 1. you have no idea how old those tires are(but there should be a date code on them) You might wanna replace them with some newer used tires so you aren't having issues with dry rotting and leaking any time soon. Also, might wanna add some slime to them to combat leak downs. 2. The floor, I most HIGHLY recommend putting down some lanolium or vinyl flooring down. it'll serve you well to keep moisture off your already rotting floor a,d clean out is a breeze. just sweep it and it's clean(of course you'll have to shovel it out once swept up, but it makes it really easy to clean it up. Also, forgot, some solar lights on the inside to keep the chickens up and laying during the shorter winter months. For 100 chickens, I am thinking you'll need more roosts to keep chickens from having to lay on the floor and getting pooped on. Are you gonna put you an auto opening/closing door on the coop for them to be able to get out and secured in without you having to do it all the time? They work great off solar and you could install it anywhere on the coop even at the bottom of your walk in door.

chainsaw action baby. I like this kind of videos-thanks. 🙏👍🌻

Maybe consider a smaller space for the chicken wire on the next one. You get any of that "sideways rain" & you're gonna have some soggy birds 🤭 with this one.

I would paint the lids of yur metal coops where u get yur eggs outta of with some sun reflective paint. Eggs gonna cook themselves.

That's a sweet trans am in the background

THAT WAS THE BEST WAY SAWING THE LUMBER . STAY COOL AND GOOD WORK

A farmer must know how to do everything themselves to save money & are the best teachers in the world. One just has to listen then apply what we are given freely. The farmers paid a hefty price for what they know.

I've seen such coops- but never made from scratch! Yours looks nicer- AND it was waaayyyy less expensive! LOL! Good job! Has to be an satisfying sense of accomplishment.. 🙏🏻💪🙏🏻

Josh it is much easier to saw that metal irf you flip it over and cut it no ribs to jump over much smoother on the bottom side

My machines always wind up being a name. Michael is my lawnmower.

Nice work Josh, this will be great for your layers

I like to put a piece of linoleum (remnant) down on the floor then build on it. Makes clean up a breeze plus the chicken waste doesn’t help rot out the floor.

Noice coop. Love senco nailers. Maybe use Thompson water seal on floor. I used to cut my metal with an older carbide crosscut blade put in saw to run backwards works great. Maybe get a Vaughan 16 oz smooth face framing hammer. Great build cheers buddy Ricky 👩🏻‍🦼🇺🇸💥🎸🙏

Very nice build Josh.

Hey Josh thank you for the video and good luck with the chicken coop there woo

Nice looking chicken condo

Awesome job! Thanks for sharing

Very cool. Especially using wood from the farm. One thought was preventing tip-over from high winds, and Just A Few Acres' chicken tractor had simple outriggers they were able to quickly put up and down every move.

So impressed with how you mill your own lumber! This is my dream to build one of these. Now I just need your skills!! Well done and thanks for the terrific video!

Pretty great chicken coup Josh maybe make ceiling height 6'7" headbanger type thing. If you have a rooster will you name him Foghorn Legghorn? I hope so. Looking forward to the actual rolling pecking field operations. Nicely done Josh

Cows don't know the meaning of "motif". Where is Miss Stoney? Been awhile since her last appearance.....she would been handy in this project!

In the future I would use hardware cloth rather than chicken wire. I've seen predators get through chicken wire, plus I think it looks better. Since it's high up though it's going to take a pretty smart predator to figure it out.

Amazing work! The continuous surprises created interesting suspense through the video. Thank you for being vulnerable enough to show us all the challenges and how you overcame them.

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Not sure if you mis-spoke or didn’t realize but those nest boxes don’t CLOSE themselves with solar, BUT they are capable of OPENING themselves. Just thought people should know.

100 hens seems like a lot. It’s a beautiful setup.

Awesome job Josh on the chicken coop

That is beautiful! Well done!

The coup looks wonderful! Might I suggest that you make doors that could drop down where you have the chicken wire? It would help if you have high winds or down pouring rain. I'm not sure what type of predators that you have in your area, but I would definitely secure my egg laying boxes so that predators can't gain access to your coup. Here we have raccoons and they'll get into get your eggs and kill every chicken. What's weird is often they are only after the eggs and won't eat your chickens. Also snake's are a huge problem here. Just a few things to consider. I have a friend that lost all her chicken's about 30-40 to a raccoon and a snake had taken a good amount of eggs before she realized what was happening to them. Great video! Looking forward to checking out the updated version of the next coup! Much Love from our family to your family 💞

Great show, thank you

maybe add the auto door for the chickens maybe solar on the roof for your power to raise and lower the roosting bar ti the layer box and the auto door

Just curious, should you close/secure the gap between the roof and the wire so snakes don't get in? Also maybe a pvc gutter to tank/auto waterer?

A Chicken door in your Man door would be a good upgrade. That way the big door won't slam on the chickens.

Looks great,Josh gonna be assume to see the chickens 🐓 out there with the cows 🐮 ❤😊😮

Don,t forget the bracing struts on the framework.

Great video, Josh! I'm looking forward to watching your progression with this and the implementation into the cows rotation. I miss the livestreams, but this was fun to watch! Great job. Plus, kudos to editor Josh or whoever did this one!

it's smart to have a mobile coop for free ranging. You can put a big ready unroller on corner for large Kencove PA electric fencing, rack for batter under someplace, with solar panel on coop roof. just ideas.. :)

Need to add wind Ty downs on the side for high wind but you may not have high winds there so it was just a idea but it looks great chicken house.

Looks nice. Cool egg catcher system. Since you are prototyping .... I'd extend the roof longer over the person door so you're out of the rain fiddling with the latch, move the person door so the hinge is on the left post giving more siding on the right, build in a chicken door on the right side of the person door. They sell auto-dusk/dawn chicken door actuators that you could add then. ... what about some sort of mechanism that could wind up your electric fencing like a tape measure or winch? Solar power for the winder motor and the electric fence zapper. Rack for step-on posts. Goal is make set up and tear down for moves as efficient as possible.

Wooooo 🇺🇸great video Josh

You need to get you some nibblers to cut metal they work really really great they also cut straight line and they cut in a circle

Yes I have seen a chicken coop like this before 😊. You obviously haven't seen the big red chicken tractor that "VW Family Farm" built several years back on an old hay wagon that's quite a bit larger. I believe they were housing a couple hundred chickens in it to begin with.

Turned out good I still would have put a little slope to the roof at least 1in

NICE!!!

Like you said it's only a coup and I like it, my suggestion would be to orientate the sheet metal to the slope. I love new tools but I wouldn't find that milwaukee tool helpful if i had to flip my steel to finish the cut. Just my 2 cents Cheers :)

You should add a trailer jack to the front of the frame to lift or lower the end to provide a slope for your roof 👍🏽

nice looking coop but i would suggest taking wood floor up and using coated 1/2 inch hardware cloth for the floor to let the poop yhru the floor to help keep coop clean

N you do all this w/o a can of beer in yur hand the whole time! AMAZING! It can be done!!!

Looks like you need io add a automatic door to keep the night time critters from having access to a free meal. Door can be operated with a battery and solar panel to keep battery charged.

I love the end 😅👍

Looks nice and very user friendly, good job.

I wondered about how predator proof those nest boxes were. Would love to see the mechanism.

Great build Josh

Can racoons or predators get into the chicken coop through the space between the roof and side walls where the rafters are?

I would make a drawer pocket under the rear door to hold the ramp while transporting it so you can slide the ramp under the floor.

I've seen similar builds. Obviously, everyone does things a little differently. That being said, the issue with these is , they can and have been tipped by strong winds. So, take that into consideration. I'd hate for it to get destroyed like others have. So, maybe eye bolting some tie downs with some anchoring stakes on each corner would help give it a bit more security.

Looks good. It will be interesting to see how the nesting boxes work..I think I would have had them about a foot off the deck. But will see.

Love it, great stuff!!! I’m planning something similar, will be awesome when more animals are on pasture!!! Keep on farm’n! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

Nice job I’d liked

good job Josh .. now for a auto door for the chickens to go out and in.. on the roof next time you could use 2x6 and cut arches in . say 6 down to 2 inches.. just to give the roof some slope.. you gave me a col idea. we have two trailers.. need to find a few rims and tires first..