8'x50' Hoop Coop for our chickens. Made with 16'x4' Cattle panels, 2x4 frame, and 4 year 6mil greenhouse plastic. Here is a link to the blog on our website. www.theredbridg...
we are taking the plunge and are looking for a few acres to lease to start our chicken and sheep regenerative farm operation. thanks you for this video, I was wondering what we'd do in the winter in Maryland.
I am planning a similar run for this winter.When spring hits I was thinking of using the space as a hoop house. I would have liked to see how tall you made it as well as a shot of the outside,. It looks great from the inside I hope all is going well for you.
Michiganflatlander here is a link to the blog we wrote on the coop during the build. hope this helps. i am 5'9" and can walk through it without hitting my head. www.theredbridgefarm.com/blog/month/2015/2/
Love this design. Reading the comments it sounds like your temps are similar to mine in Upstate NY. Do you think the chickens could stay in his type of enclosure day and night? They currently stay in a small (4 x 6') mobile coop built on a garden wagon base and we do not provide heat - they have done well for 3 years now in this set up - even during our yearly bouts of below freezing days (down to -16 a few times/year). We do provide a heated water bowl so the water doesn't freeze up. Also... some of the comments have links to your website which do not work - has the URL changed or do you no longer have the website? THANKS FOR YOUR VIDEO!!!
Hi, now that you've had your hoop coop for four years, how is the plastic holding up. I was warned that wind will rub the plastic against the metal and lots of holes would be the result within a year. Can you confirm this? Thanks a lot from NZ. E.
Plastic is still in good shape. We tucked the plastic in tight so it can't flap. Ours is also laying horizontal to the main wind direction. This makes the wind roll over the hoop. We have not had any issues with the wind.
Have you had any experience with hail on your greenhouse? I was told recently that greenhouse plastic is very tough and wouldn't be damaged in a hailstorm, which surprised me. Any thoughts or experience?
@@justtom1820 we've had some hail. Most of what we have is pea size. Don't get the big stuff up in our neck of the woods. But from that stuff we undamaged.
Hello new friend. Happy to connect with you! I love the hoop coop! I am in the process of building a new coop and your coop has given me inspiration! Thanks for sharing. Hope you can join me as well.
Back when we ran this, we only ran the birds in there during the day. I later added doors onto it. But our Temps in the winter are generally around 0-30°
Was going to try this in Wyoming, where it gets -20f. Would they be ok in a larger coop like this? Only have 12 chickens. Just thought they'd appreciate the space over their small summer coop.
We have a smaller version of the run 8x12. Since winter time in the Pacific NW, we have condensation on the inside of the tarp, which is dripping onto the sand floor of the run. Have you addressed a prevention method? We don't currently have electricity to the run for fans.
With the open airflow, we never had the condensation issue. Once we closed the ends up, we added a basic box fan in one end and that kept the condensation down.
In total we had around 100 birds that roamed in and out of this coop. They generally used it when the snow was on the ground and did not want to go outside.
Do they pasture on the snow each day? I noticed your electric fence. Do move them onto “fresh pasture” every few days even when it’s covered with snow? Thank you. I’m learning a lot.
In the winter time, we keep them in one place. The fence is to keep the predators out. With the hoop coop, they get the extra wing space to stretch out. Most of these birds do not care to touch the snow lol.
4 years?? Nuts. Raccoons ripped through the plastic on mine in 3 days. Passed right in the opening of cattle panel. Thank God I was home noone died. Rewired with hardware cloth. Saved zero dollars after all said and done, lol. Oh well. Lesson learned for me.
The portable electric fence made the difference. I have an electric fence and motion sensor lights and that’s why I still have chickens and ducks. I have 2 possums and a hark watching my birds. My neighbor has lost lots of birds and lets his hens free range in his yard. 😢
Do your hens in the winter go scratch around in the frozen ground.?I'm in the process of fencing 110X45'foot lot and untill recently I had never seen electric net fencing.im gonna use it for further subdividing my lot.I've been trimming mistletoe from the oak trees on my lot.i am working on introducing edible mushrooms spores to the soil by chipping up the oak and leaf litter and move if my hens a-frame over the spot to enrich the soil with there poop.you got some beautiful hens in that video.i only have a 12 pack of lAdies in my flock
I like the idea of mobility.i don't know about your hens but mine dig holes,I'm talking big aasss deep holes they could get down in and have a card game in.! And move ing the hens around is gonna allow some soil enrichment. And people in the"know" have told me to till in chicken and horse manure first then and your mushrooms spores and oak chips and water. And with luck you can turn a wood lot into a mushrooms forest.in California lot managers charge people to harvest mushrooms on there property.
Brian Shea no we don't heat it in the winter. We have a Mobil coop that backs up to the hoop coop which the birds sleep in at night. we have about 100 birds in each mobile coop. they keep each other quite warm. if it gets relay cold we do but some heat lamps in the coop for them at night. the hoop coop however gets up to about 50-80 degrees during the day depending on the sun in the winter.
The Red Bridge Farm Thanks, Planning on making something similar for Tortoises for the Summer, but if the temp can be kept up, we may use for more seasons.
we change it once a year (beginning of spring generally). We do the deep litter method with all our chicken coops. Works great and the deep litter helps retain heat.
Do you use a heater(s)? Or special type of chicken ? About to start rasing chickens for the first time this year, and I'm not too sure about how it works during winter. Do they still lay for you?
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing! I was wondering how tall it is inside there? I know I'd fit, as I'm only 5'1, my daughter is shorter than I. My Husband is 6'3" and my Son is in between us. We'd use this for winter meat bird growing and then in early spring as a greenhouse. Thank you.
In the snow, we go around and clear a bit around the fence. It does help keep the charge. I can tell you that I have personally felt the charge in the snow. Lol. Never had a ground predator loss in the winter when the fence is on. Hope this helps :-)
Thanks, I'm planning making some movable coop for lying chickens on skids 8x16m for 1000 layers but so far I got more and more doubts. I've got a hectare of land but it's a weird shaped a 40m x 275m plot of land, means i got to pull the coop at least 16 times per year and fence them teporary with electric fence and pull it back back to zero position on winter months that in Poland we have about 4-5.
Ha ha. We have had just about every kind come through at one time or another. This is also surrounded by electric net fence which keeps most at bay during the day. The birds got locked in a coop at night which kept most out at night.
This setup was very new when I took the video. We have since added doors on both ends. The birds all get locked into their coop at night which kept the predators away at night.
It looks great , I am wondering how low the temperature could hit in winter ? Where is ur location again? I am in Montreal , it goes down to -30 in February .let me know 🤔🤗🤗🤗
+Del phine i find that with 130 birds it stays above freezing inside with the outside temps around 0-5 degrees. that is with both ends closed up at night. We are located in north east Washington state. The birds really like it when there is snow on the ground. We have also used this as a brooder for meat birds in the summer. We just tarp it to keep it cool. Works quite nice.
+The Red Bridge Farm thanks for the help,I guess I might try another layer of plastic bubble wrap, so when it hit down to -20, it might stay up 0 with plus huge compost........it's such a great way to raise chicken in cattle panel ,I didn't think about it bf. Thanks for the inspiration ,chill!
The homeless get free food, clothing, hygiene stations, tents in Texas, I can only imagine the abundance provided them by Blue States. I think they would rather not sleep in a chicken tractor, but that sounded so caring!
Our winds generally blow North or South. So we set it up to run east to west. This allowed the winds to roll over the coop. We anchored it to the ground with concrete form stakes. Never had any issue with it in the wind.
Hi, now that you've had your hoop coop for four years, how is the plastic holding up. I was warned that wind will rub the plastic against the metal and lots of holes would be the result within a year. Can you confirm this? Thanks a lot from NZ. E.
Howdy. The plastic is still holding well. This is 4mil greenhouse plastic that is uv resistant. It is pulled tight and my wind blows north or south over the unit as it layes east/west. It has a few pricks and very small holes. Mostly from the birds walking on it. But all in all it is still in really good condition.
Thanks, we solved the condensation by adding bubble wrap under the tarp. Thanks again for response
Oh interesting. Must have created enough vapor barrier to cut the temp change. Cool!
What a beautiful view you have. The coop is awesome. New subbie here. Thank you for sharing✌🏽
Amazing, all the snow and partially open. Awesome free run!
8x50 for $400 5? ... so easy and so cost effective! Thanks for the quick informative video.
Wow beautiful landscape you have there !
What a beautiful run! I plan on building one exactly like this.
Wish I would have seen this before I built mine,,,absolutely awesome!!
Hello, simple but wonderful idea. Thank you for this video and accept my regards from Saudi Arabia🐤🐥🐣🐓
Merci from Montreal, Canada, nice Hoop, I like it.
Hey there! Just popping in for the first time! Nice coop! We want to make the same style one for our chickens
I'd kill for your property. Such an amazing view..
I love these ideas, thanks much!!
Just found your channel and subscribed awesome job guy
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Good design, thanks for the idea!
we are taking the plunge and are looking for a few acres to lease to start our chicken and sheep regenerative farm operation. thanks you for this video, I was wondering what we'd do in the winter in Maryland.
That is a nice setup. Just found your channel and subbed!
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I am planning a similar run for this winter.When spring hits I was thinking of using the space as a hoop house. I would have liked to see how tall you made it as well as a shot of the outside,. It looks great from the inside I hope all is going well for you.
Michiganflatlander here is a link to the blog we wrote on the coop during the build. hope this helps. i am 5'9" and can walk through it without hitting my head. www.theredbridgefarm.com/blog/month/2015/2/
Great setup
Man the views are wonderful
Really pretty
Beautiful chickens! Gorgeous views! Too cold for this southern girl, though. Brrrr.
Love this design. Reading the comments it sounds like your temps are similar to mine in Upstate NY. Do you think the chickens could stay in his type of enclosure day and night? They currently stay in a small (4 x 6') mobile coop built on a garden wagon base and we do not provide heat - they have done well for 3 years now in this set up - even during our yearly bouts of below freezing days (down to -16 a few times/year). We do provide a heated water bowl so the water doesn't freeze up. Also... some of the comments have links to your website which do not work - has the URL changed or do you no longer have the website? THANKS FOR YOUR VIDEO!!!
I need one of those.
Alsome that is a great idea for a flock of chicken!
Great idea
Hi, now that you've had your hoop coop for four years, how is the
plastic holding up. I was warned that wind will rub the plastic against
the metal and lots of holes would be the result within a year. Can you
confirm this? Thanks a lot from NZ. E.
Plastic is still in good shape. We tucked the plastic in tight so it can't flap. Ours is also laying horizontal to the main wind direction. This makes the wind roll over the hoop. We have not had any issues with the wind.
Have you had any experience with hail on your greenhouse? I was told recently that greenhouse plastic is very tough and wouldn't be damaged in a hailstorm, which surprised me. Any thoughts or experience?
@@justtom1820 we've had some hail. Most of what we have is pea size. Don't get the big stuff up in our neck of the woods. But from that stuff we undamaged.
@@theredbridgefarm1254 thank you for replying!
Hello new friend. Happy to connect with you! I love the hoop coop! I am in the process of building a new coop and your coop has given me inspiration! Thanks for sharing. Hope you can join me as well.
How does it stand up to wind?
🐼👍 nicely done
hog rings work well with cattle/hog panels
So sweet
Do you till in the hay a chicken manure and garden directly where the Hoops are?
Well done! Thank you!
Hey red bridge farm,
How much snow has that hoop held up too?
I like the idea.
I looked up your other stuff.
I thought the name was familiar.
I'm an hour away in republic!
Ha! It could hold up to a lot. I can hang from the middle inside. Wind, rain , snow it has taken it all. Still on its first piece of plastic too.
VERY NICE ,I LIKE THAT .
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS.
Just incredible nice...
Are these chickens
Rhode Island Red...
I noticed your coop isn't insulated and lots of air flow. How cold does it get there? We get down to about -40 here.
Back when we ran this, we only ran the birds in there during the day. I later added doors onto it. But our Temps in the winter are generally around 0-30°
Was going to try this in Wyoming, where it gets -20f. Would they be ok in a larger coop like this? Only have 12 chickens. Just thought they'd appreciate the space over their small summer coop.
And can the chickens sleep in the winter coop or they have to sleep in the wooden coop ?
They slept in the wood coop and would go back and forth between the 2 during the day.
We have a smaller version of the run 8x12. Since winter time in the Pacific NW, we have condensation on the inside of the tarp, which is dripping onto the sand floor of the run. Have you addressed a prevention method? We don't currently have electricity to the run for fans.
With the open airflow, we never had the condensation issue. Once we closed the ends up, we added a basic box fan in one end and that kept the condensation down.
How many chicken's do u have in this 50ft long coop ?
In total we had around 100 birds that roamed in and out of this coop. They generally used it when the snow was on the ground and did not want to go outside.
Do they pasture on the snow each day? I noticed your electric fence. Do move them onto “fresh pasture” every few days even when it’s covered with snow? Thank you. I’m learning a lot.
In the winter time, we keep them in one place. The fence is to keep the predators out. With the hoop coop, they get the extra wing space to stretch out. Most of these birds do not care to touch the snow lol.
4 years?? Nuts. Raccoons ripped through the plastic on mine in 3 days. Passed right in the opening of cattle panel. Thank God I was home noone died. Rewired with hardware cloth. Saved zero dollars after all said and done, lol. Oh well. Lesson learned for me.
The portable electric fence made the difference. I have an electric fence and motion sensor lights and that’s why I still have chickens and ducks. I have 2 possums and a hark watching my birds. My neighbor has lost lots of birds and lets his hens free range in his yard. 😢
Does your electric fence work with the snow around it?
great build.... I see seedlings everywhere...
How did you attach the plastic?
Nice!, think I will try something like this for next year!
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Nice job
How do you keep them from getting eaten? That flock wouldn't last two days where I live.
Great vid, thanks for sharing!
Do your hens in the winter go scratch around in the frozen ground.?I'm in the process of fencing 110X45'foot lot and untill recently I had never seen electric net fencing.im gonna use it for further subdividing my lot.I've been trimming mistletoe from the oak trees on my lot.i am working on introducing edible mushrooms spores to the soil by chipping up the oak and leaf litter and move if my hens a-frame over the spot to enrich the soil with there poop.you got some beautiful hens in that video.i only have a 12 pack of lAdies in my flock
I like the idea of mobility.i don't know about your hens but mine dig holes,I'm talking big aasss deep holes they could get down in and have a card game in.!
And move ing the hens around is gonna allow some soil enrichment.
And people in the"know" have told me to till in chicken and horse manure first then and your mushrooms spores and oak chips and water.
And with luck you can turn a wood lot into a mushrooms forest.in California lot managers charge people to harvest mushrooms on there property.
Do you heat either coop?
Brian Shea Brian, I am in Michigan and haven't heated a chicken coop yet. Just do your research on the breeds for hardiness before starting out.
Brian Shea no we don't heat it in the winter. We have a Mobil coop that backs up to the hoop coop which the birds sleep in at night. we have about 100 birds in each mobile coop. they keep each other quite warm. if it gets relay cold we do but some heat lamps in the coop for them at night. the hoop coop however gets up to about 50-80 degrees during the day depending on the sun in the winter.
The Red Bridge Farm Thanks, Planning on making something similar for Tortoises for the Summer, but if the temp can be kept up, we may use for more seasons.
Great idea! What type of plastic did you use to cover the panels?
Thanks! It is a 4 year 6mil Greenhouse plastic.
Would this be okay to use all year round as a duck coop?
Mini Galaxy20000 add kiddy pools the ducks will love it!
it may get hot inside will need ventilation
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Thank you very much...
Did you change your bedding quite offen, say how many times through out the winter or can you just keep adding the bedding? Thanks... Kevin
we change it once a year (beginning of spring generally). We do the deep litter method with all our chicken coops. Works great and the deep litter helps retain heat.
Thank you, sir.
Do you use a heater(s)? Or special type of chicken ?
About to start rasing chickens for the first time this year, and I'm not too sure about how it works during winter. Do they still lay for you?
just found your youtube site. Did you put anything on the top of the cattle panels to keep from poking holes in the plastic?
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing! I was wondering how tall it is inside there? I know I'd fit, as I'm only 5'1, my daughter is shorter than I. My Husband is 6'3" and my Son is in between us. We'd use this for winter meat bird growing and then in early spring as a greenhouse. Thank you.
Hi, where did you get the electric fence from? Thx.
Bunch of flash frozen bird in Canada.
Hey there, no problem with electric fence dip in snow? still gives the charge?
In the snow, we go around and clear a bit around the fence. It does help keep the charge. I can tell you that I have personally felt the charge in the snow. Lol. Never had a ground predator loss in the winter when the fence is on. Hope this helps :-)
Thanks, I'm planning making some movable coop for lying chickens on skids 8x16m for 1000 layers but so far I got more and more doubts. I've got a hectare of land but it's a weird shaped a 40m x 275m plot of land, means i got to pull the coop at least 16 times per year and fence them teporary with electric fence and pull it back back to zero position on winter months that in Poland we have about 4-5.
Must not have much predator pressure....
Ha ha. We have had just about every kind come through at one time or another. This is also surrounded by electric net fence which keeps most at bay during the day. The birds got locked in a coop at night which kept most out at night.
Please tell me where I can see a list of supplies to build this coop. I NEED to build as soon as April 15th 2018.
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this is basically how it was made ruclips.net/video/-DKlXs8iov0/видео.html
What a view
The link is no longer available to see the way to build the coop.
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where about do you live in the US? This is pretty neat...
Both ends of the green house are open. Why don't eagles and hawks come in and have a chicken buffet?
This setup was very new when I took the video. We have since added doors on both ends. The birds all get locked into their coop at night which kept the predators away at night.
Any hole large enough to fit a hotdog through a predator can get in.
It looks great , I am wondering how low the temperature could hit in winter ? Where is ur location again? I am in Montreal , it goes down to -30 in February .let me know 🤔🤗🤗🤗
+Del phine i find that with 130 birds it stays above freezing inside with the outside temps around 0-5 degrees. that is with both ends closed up at night. We are located in north east Washington state. The birds really like it when there is snow on the ground. We have also used this as a brooder for meat birds in the summer. We just tarp it to keep it cool. Works quite nice.
+The Red Bridge Farm thanks for the help,I guess I might try another layer of plastic bubble wrap, so when it hit down to -20, it might stay up 0 with plus huge compost........it's such a great way to raise chicken in cattle panel ,I didn't think about it bf. Thanks for the inspiration ,chill!
Great!
nice.
u raising them for $?
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Hi how are you . I want your help in this project if you want to help me
sir we want your hens eggs plz any contact number give me...sir I am from India....we don't have your breeds egg plz..
mohammed hassain lol Trying to scam somebody
chickens on wheels nice
the homeless should have so good lol
The homeless get free food, clothing, hygiene stations, tents in Texas, I can only imagine the abundance provided them by Blue States. I think they would rather not sleep in a chicken tractor, but that sounded so caring!
the mountains in the background are beautiful
They really are. We love farming out here in Northeast Washington!
What other animals do humans eat for food that raise their young, live in a social setting, and are bipedal? Exactly!
How does it stand up to wind?
Our winds generally blow North or South. So we set it up to run east to west. This allowed the winds to roll over the coop. We anchored it to the ground with concrete form stakes. Never had any issue with it in the wind.
Hi, now that you've had your hoop coop for four years, how is the
plastic holding up. I was warned that wind will rub the plastic against
the metal and lots of holes would be the result within a year. Can you
confirm this? Thanks a lot from NZ. E.
Howdy. The plastic is still holding well. This is 4mil greenhouse plastic that is uv resistant. It is pulled tight and my wind blows north or south over the unit as it layes east/west. It has a few pricks and very small holes. Mostly from the birds walking on it. But all in all it is still in really good condition.