We offer several different styles and many different sizes of chicken coops.
Moss on a roof for chicken coop.
Peat is amazing at absorbing moisture.
A coop also requires elevated roosting perches where the chickens can sleep nesting boxes where they can lay eggs and a connected run or pen where chickens can roam.
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I secure the soil moss and plants in place with chicken wire pulled tightly and stapled to the frame of the roof.
What makes a good chicken coop roof.
Place the roof on top of the coop.
A good chicken coop roof has these qualities.
Perhaps the best quality of peat moss as a chicken coop bedding is its absorbency.
Keeps moisture out of the coop.
To make a simple roof join two 40 inch 101 6 cm by 84 inch 213 4 cm pieces of plywood with some inexpensive hinges.
If you live in the city and need only a few chickens or in the country and you need lots of chickens we have the chicken coop for you.
In order for a roof to be durable you need a material that doesn t absorb moisture doesn t rip off in the wind and doesn t break down under the sun s rays.
Check our our mini chicken coop shed roof coop and our most popular coop the walk in chicken coop.
Be sure to join them along the 84 inch 213 4 cm sides so that the roof with cover the entire chicken coop.
You want a bedding material that will absorb as much moisture as possible otherwise your coop will be wet slimy and disgusting.
Then i trim off the excess wire and tuck more moss around the edges or anywhere that the wire is still visible.
Sloped so that rain and snow slide off.