how's it going guys welcome back to the Moon Homestead uh today I've decided I'd do a quick little tutorial on how to do a chicken coop uh you know on your own of course uh so I'm also into putting in the description box the list of measurements and a list of material that you'll need in order to build this uh today we're going to do a five foot wide by seven and a half foot long which is of course front to back and six foot tall uh we're gonna do all brand new material uh from I always go to Home Depot to get all my material uh accuracy here I generally like to start off with doing pre-cuts on all my wood that way by the time you know it's it's time to start assembling everything you pretty much got the majority of your boards cut of course you know there's a few boards like my little shorter ones that my mind went blank on as far as uh you know how long I got to cut them so once I get a lot of it assembled I'll be able to start kind of throwing you know those measurements together but for the most part legs and frames and all that kind of stuff I pretty much already remember from previous builds as far as you know what exact lanes that I needed like someone had did a bunch of pre-cuts uh you know to make that part easier so it pretty much is going to be a step-by-step uh you know video here it's not going to be a full-on video that way you don't have to sit around for an hour and a half watching the song you know uh wasting a whole bunch of time like I said it'll just be little quick steps for it so uh the first thing you're gonna end up doing is assembling a uh the five foot wide by seven and a half foot frame uh that's what this here is right is uh of course we can lay it down you're gonna end up assembling two of these and then which of course you'll have your bottom frame and your top frame and then you're gonna have your four legs to be able to of course hold the upper half in the air your legs are going to be cut at 65 inches now the frame here like I said uh for the front board for your five foot width this is a 57 inch cut where it gives you an overall uh five foot wide you don't cut the front board at five foot you do the 57 inches to account for your extra thickness of your two outside boards which gives you the four or five foot and then lengthwise uh again I went with uh seven feet six inches long and that you you would cut them at the full seven foot six inches uh and then of course you know next the next step would be adding the legs to where you can add the upper half all right guys so like I said uh the next step is gonna be your legs the legs are cut at 65 inches uh the reason for that is whenever you stack it on top of the frame you will go between the top and bottom frame they give you your exact from bottom to top Edge your exact six foot by doing it at 65 inches and then you've got your cross member here once you put your top frame on this will be your your cross board it's going to be also 57 inches just like your inboards for your frame uh what this one's is for of course you know keeping it from bowling or anything like that but also once we start to do our 10 we're going to do our 10 going across this way like the sheets will be going from front to back so they're all going to overlap each other going across here so this will of course be uh helpful to you know support the center of the roof where it's not bowing down from leaves rain you know whatever you know just the weight of the weight of the tint itself but also be able to screw it all into there to keep the wind from trying to you know make it flap up and down and all that kind of stuff what's up the way that I do my my legs whenever it comes into of course whenever you're doing two boards like these you can do the three inch screws from the side but however going in like this way you got two two options I like to go with the pocket screw set up uh which is this machine right here or a little tool right here this helps you whenever you put the boards in you can put it in there it locks it in place it has a special bit that comes with it that screws those holes in and then you've got a special kind of screw that as well goes in there with a flat Edge to where once it hits the depth it automatically stops uh you can either go with that option or a much simpler way you can take your short 2x4 and you can stick it right there like that and then you can just put some three inch screws through here into the frame and then also a couple of them right here into the legs and that'll also hold them together so either one really works just depending on how fancy you're trying to go or how simple you're trying to go uh I know whenever I bought that tool that little extra tool there for the pocket hole screws originally it was like 100 bucks I think it is about 120 130 now which of course I bought that probably five years ago whenever I'll build some other projects like I said it just kind of helps it look a little bit fancier and not so just kind of you know rigged up I just doing the boards like that but like I said that's still an option as well uh the next part is going to be adding in the cross boards uh that'll go across the center here across the back and across the side the the center board across here it is 53 inches because again you've got to account for you know the the boards being you know wide so basically you would take five foot minus the seven inches these two would make up and that gives you your 53 inches across there and then the bars for front to back they are uh I want to say my mind's gonna blink at the moment let's see they are 87 inches so and again that'll be going inside to inside and that'll be for once we do start our wire and our 10 that'll give us perfect Center marks going across both sides and the back all right guys so uh as stated the next thing was the all the side braces so this this is what it'll look like uh what I like to do come right here I like to put in my little marks and my three foot that's exactly three foot from the top Edge to to the actual center of it so basically you're looking at you know right again right on the 36 inch or three foot Mark and then just paste the center of your boards based on that put them all the way around uh again the backboard because the fact I'm going into the widest part of the 2x4 I had to use my pocket screws which again you can just take your two by four lay it across there a couple screws there a couple screws there and it'll hold on the same way uh also I added these in right here these are just little fillers on both sides that way whenever the way again the way I'm going to do my 10 is going to be a long they're going to be faced a long ways this way no trip baby uh so again camera woman down the tan is going to go from you know front to back so whenever it starts to wrap around this will again give that extra support just like this top board is for the 10 to be able to screw to that way it's not so flappy in the wind and also just for the extra stability on it uh the next thing is going to end up being the door hey guys as far as the door goes uh the way that I do it uh I choose to do my door on the side now uh as y'all seen like in some of my previous videos like Tweety's cage it's in the middle Jack's cage it's on the left out of the two I decided that I prefer having the door on the side more the person's having it in the center uh so the way that I do it cut you another base of light like just like another leg is 65 inches and that's going to be for your frame of your door I do my doors two foot wide so I do exactly a two foot wide Gap from inside to inside and then the door the way that I'm doing the my doors from now on because I've been having issues sort of place it with my bandies with them when I open the door they try to like hop out which of course is really low to have to reach way down there or trying to kick back with your foot so I'm going to actually wire this in right here I put a little brace I did 14 inches high uh from the ground up to the top of this board is 14 inches so we're basically creates a 14 inch wall for them to they would have to hop over which again will make that a little bit easier for you know pushing them back and of course it's low enough for me and the wife we can still step over it you know to be able to get in and out uh for if you do if you decide to do that doing the 14 inch little wall you would cut your door at uh what's this so this is my first time doing this one the door is 53 and a half uh inches you cut your two side boards 53 and a half that would allow that once what I do is I'll take a marker or you can take you know one of your Carpenter pencils and turn it you know a long ways up to where it gives you a half inch gap on the bottom and the top of the door for in case you know you put it on slightly on level ground or if it tries to Bow a little bit over you know time it'll give you the half inch gap of play on top and bottom of the door to keep it from sticking or anything like that uh your Center brace boards I do three top bottom and Center I cut them at for a two foot wide door I do 16 and a half inch boards right here and then that allows about a quarter inch of play like once you put your hinges on you have about a quarter inch over here of play to you know again keep the door from sticking uh if you decide to do a full-size door like some of my previous wall my previous pins you do the sideboards at 64 inches uh because again you have 65 inch Gap so do your door your door frame is 64 and again that allows for that half inch play uh but as far as the frame goes that is everything about the frame uh that you would have to do uh we'll take back that correction of course I won't really have to do a video on this part I will end up I still got to do a board right here a little Center board like I did all the way around uh it's gonna end up being a either two foot wide door it's going to be a 25 and a quarter uh board that you would have to cut and just put it across uh there you know again for whenever you do your wires you can go the wire that I buy is the welded wire it's 50 foot long roll which only takes just under 30 foot to do this particular size cage because you're only going to do the bottom half on the sides in the back and then of course you'll do everything on the front and then your 10 will do will take up all of your upper half on both sides your back and of course across the roof uh and we're fixing to do that next the next thing is going to be putting the wire on all right guys so this is of course the finished product now now that we've added the wire and the tin uh as you'll see the entire front side is all wired to where you have full view you know plus you know of course you know that they get a lot more sunlight especially if you get the coupe face it towards you know the sunrise and all that way they can get first thing in the morning they get the sun shining in give them some sunlight whatever if they need to they can still get up kind of high enough where the roof will you know shade them some but they want the sunlight they can uh then of course you know of course they'll settle behind uh on the as you'll see here on the outside on the sides and just in the back we have wire on all both sides and the back on the bottom half only that way your upper half is all 10 all the way around across the top everything that way they have full shade if they want it if during winter time you've got you know 20 30 degree weather with high winds at night once they're up on the perch inside which is also at the halfway point up off the ground no wind they don't get direct wind blowing directly on them from the sides or the back they don't get rain being blown directly on them the perch I put it exactly two foot from the back so it's it's about right here uh that way if the wind blows in from the front it's still not enough thanks to get directly on them uh so as you look the way I do mine I take two by two blocks for locks basically just flip them up the door opens up what I do is I also always I install a 2x4 or some type of board here on the inside where whenever the door is closed if something was to jump up to push against the door it blocks it from being able to rip inside or anything like that that way also you don't mess up your hinges but also that's just out of security keeps that door good and sturdy like I said this is where the roosting perch is it's another two by four that we just added I said two foot from the back that way if you decide to do some type of laying desk or something in the back it's still far out enough that they're not pooping inside of it or anything like that plus it gives you plenty of room for coming inside here you can still reach Nest box you know over the perch and you still have plenty of room in here for food water buckets you know doing whatever you need to do on the inside uh plenty of room to walk around I can see you know pretty much you know you get almost full full arm width with the five foot long and of course like so plenty of room to you know of course if you're one about five foot eight or by five foot nine you may want your head right here on that but I said the six foot tall works great especially for you know ones like me and pretty much your average height uh maybe other than that like I said that's gonna be the full tour of it like so you can see the tail on the back side as well I said I got plenty and of course by using the silver 10 a lot of the sunlight will kind of reflect off which I've been told kind of helps out with some of the Heat and stuff like that but you know if there's anything uh you know I hope you guys enjoy the video hope this was helpful for y'all if you have any questions or anything that I might have not mentioned in the video please hit us up in the comment section uh you know again you know as always subscribe for future videos hit that thumbs up if you enjoy the video and you know if you don't mind sheriffs on some of the other social medias hope you all enjoy and hope you all have a great day