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haven't decided on that yet, the slats on the base pallets line up pretty well, where most poop should fall right through onto the ground, I was thinking of nailing chicken wire to the floor and just raking out every week from under the coop

I started shingling the back side yesterday, the way I had set the base on the cement piers, I couldn't go all the way to the ground with the shingles, so the back is pretty open

just about got it done and was going to start on the roof, when it started lightning and down pouring, so that wrapped up my day

working on it today, we have been getting hammered with rain, just finished pulling all the straw out because it is soaked

eh no worries, it's really not needed, but someone had asked options for insulating, all they really need is to be out of the wind and their water de iced. Our original coop has no insulation, we just cover the openings with plastic to keep the wind out and stick a heat lamp over their water to keep it ice free and give them a bunch of straw, never had any issues

so I put in a filler piece on the end, I measured up fro the last row of shingles we had nailed down to make sure it visually looked right

and did the same on the other side

and shingled them

I trimmed the extra

I had picked up some drip edge, ignore the pug, he's a suck up

and nailed it down on the front, back and sides

I decided to utilize one of the drawers as a clean out from them roosting, roosting equals pooping, so I framed out a small roost for them

I needed to get some roofing,and decided to grab it off our old coop

I quickly screwed down the metal roof, now just need to throw a door on and stain the whole thing, and then we are done!