Cattle Panel Greenhouse: The Build - Part 2
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- Опубліковано 24 жов 2016
- Day 106 - We finish building the cattle panel greenhouse today. The greenhouse will also serve as chicken housing over the winter.
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Nice job good to see the family involved
You guys look like brother and sister! They say that usually means it was the match made in heaven. Cute. Thanks for the video!
This is exactly what I’ve been searching for. We have a small space for a greenhouse in our backyard homestead. Thanks so much for sharing.
Turn a 2x4 flat and put it on top of your ridge pole. It will fill the gap and give even more support to the arch
used a 2x6 for the top beam, perfect squeeze! Thanks for the step by step!
Nice job.
Thanks for the props. Alan (TP2)
Thanks Alan! The greenhouse did well with the ridge beam addition over our heavy winter in north Idaho
Nice work!
Thanks :)
Yeaaah! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼y'all did an excellent job!! I love it how little buddy helped out "Supervising" ! Lol
Thank you! Little Buddy said he really likes our projects and being outside with us. He was out there all day!
Great job on the green house, it looks fabulous! :) I'm glad that you mentioned that you're thinking through ventilation options for the chickens. I hear that's important for winter coops.
So great that those stickers came in handy again.
Thanks Melissa! We'll be using a deep litter to keep ammonia etc down in addition to ventilation
I'm really diggin this and love your upgrades to the original design. I think we may go for it or a similar version. Thanks so much!
Do it! You'll love it!
Looks great
Thank you Wendy!
looks awesome! Now I want to build one!
Do it!
Ah ha! Very nice! Now let's get something growing!
I know! If only we had built it a few weeks ago. Thank you!
I love the greenhouse.. and I love Ashley's furry boots! LOL :)
Haha! She loves them, too! She was cold and said "I'm getting my winter boots!"
Really great job! That seemed to come together so much faster than the chicken tractor. I guess each project just keeps increasing skills. I think we want to build something like that. I wonder about the chickens too. Congrats!!! 😃
Thanks Virginia! It went WAY faster than the tractor. Our skills are improving but the real difference is having better tools - the impact driver is a game changer. Also, the magnetic hex driver bit you guys got us is what I used to put in all the hardware. Oh, and the carpenters pencil was well-used also :)
Working my way through your video's so no idea how this worked out but......would put something up to keep the chickens away from the plastic as they will peck holes in it if a bug or something is landed on the outside.
Those little 'U' shaped nail things are cool. I didn't even know they had such a thing.
fence staples - you can get them at home depot
I am very impressed with ya'll work on this greenhouse G! Your wife and yourself did a mighty fine job bro!!! I also used 2" x 6" skids on mine as well. Really the only difference between mine and yours is I put in a automatic window opener I got off of ebay. But it looks great G!
Thanks Bobby. I need to get one of those window openers.
They work like a dream! I ell ya what, it is well worth the money. I think I paid right around $30.00 or so, but they will open and close automatically depending on how you set it. You set it to open and close it at the desired temperature, which is good for plants and chickens for ventilation.
Heat rises. Always put the opening for windows at the top! Otherwise, looks great!
Texas prepper re-did his windows openings by doing what you suggested. His new videos recommends the opening from the top. Good looking out, thanks
Nice job! Suggestion: When you change out the plastic in a couple years, put the pleats so they face down. That way you're not catching rain and snow in them. Good call on the support beam. Having lived in Eastern Washington for 27 years I know what a pain a snow load can be!
Thanks Caroline! And yes, we'll be sure to do the pleats right next time. We didn't even think about that
Hey, you did them exactly the same way they were done in the instructions. I don't think it rains in Texas :)
Hahaha!
Your comment made me smile. I live in Texas on the Galveston coast and we get around 5 or more inches a week.
nice... :)
Get some expanding foam for up on top of 2x4
Hi- my dad had a commercial chrysanthemum nursery. Before he was able to afford fiberglass greenhouse, then glass greenhouses, he had plastic houses. He would roll the plastic edges around the lath, and then nail the lath... then you don't have to waste time stapling the plastic down first than nailing the lath over and cutting the plastic... just sayin'.
thanks Kathy :)
Your wife is cute. I love the way you work together!
Thank you. We enjoy doing these projects together
Hey you guys do a great job on your videos please keep them coming. Can you tell me the outside dimensions of the green house? I'm planning on building one like yours over the winter for spring planting.
Thank you!!
Thank you! The dimensions of ours is 12'x7'. The original plans are 8'x7' but we wanted it bigger. Let me know how the greenhouse works for you when you get it going!
Although it may not mean much to you, you did give up some extra length by overlapping each cattle panel section. The stock panels are 16'X50", so overlapping them gave up maybe 1 1/2-2' total by the time you hooked up 3 panels. I didn't see that you joined them together with rope, wire, ties or welds, but I may have missed it in your build. I am speculating only, but staples to the bottom poly cover are usually bad, as even with furring strips used, moisture or ice/water will get to the staples and rust them. Not being critical at all, but just making some observations. Thanks for sharing the video.
Thanks for watching a1930ford. We overlapped the cattle panels on purpose. As you mentioned, they are 50" tall. Our skids are only 12' (144") so they wouldn't be able to accommodate 150" of cattle panel. Also, overlapping them added stability.
It is a great looking greenhouse and I think I am going to try this one.
But I am concerned about chickens .. raccoons/skunks can easily get into an enclosure like that, and I would think chickens might peck at plastic if bored. I would line the entire thing with a smaller gauge poultry wire. Mostly to protect them.. predators are relentless .. I speak from experience.
Thanks Roxanne. I used .25" hardware cloth around the bottom to keep them off the plastic. Stay tuned for that video
The Grass-fed Homestead Hi what did it cost you to build your green house
,if I may ask?
i notice you both have hats and sunglasses dont forget junior
Oh yeah, that came together nicely. More pullets on the way is exciting. Labor wise, there isn't a big difference between a dozen chickens and 50 chickens, I'm just sayin'.
Exactly!
Thanks for the links PD! Ashley and I have discussed the possibility of chicken breeding next year. We really like the genetics we're seeing from our breeder. Probably focus on the Copper Marans.
50...wow...makes sense though
One thing he mentioned was several smaller breeders working together on the same line of chickens. In fact, he's set up a Sustainable Poultry Network organization to help achieve that. (Not an endorsement of them, I've only read a little about it.) His model suggested pens set up with 1 rooster and 12-20+ hens in each pen. That may be more doable for you to start next spring.
Maybe tell your chicken dude what your plans are and ask him if you could work together and help him with his breeding program of those Copper Marans? If you're willing to loan him back a great rooster or hens for his breeding purposes he has more genetics to choose from. And if you are willing to raise a straight run of chicks, like 30 with 15 of each sex, then that's even more choices to help improve the line. Pick the best of the best of those 30 at around 16 weeks for breeding purposes, and the rest can go to his customers or in the freezer. Sharing eggs from your flock for him to hatch and select the best is another way to help each other.
That's the theory anyway, for what its worth. I get a little excited about breeding chickens as its something I will try in the future. Don't mean to impose, just spit-balling again.
No imposition at all. I love the suggestions and where you are going with this.
Very nice! I plan to build one with 3 cattle panels. I didn't understand why you used 2x6x12 instead of 2x4x12. Your end base is 2x4, right?
I don't remember
Would the chickens pick through the plastic and the predators get through it too?
I'm going to put up fencing around the greenhouse which will help with the predator situation but I don't know about the chickens picking through. I sure hope not
Are you going to use chicken wire (vs hardware cloth) over the inside of your window, much like a regular window so it's more like a screen window? Will you roll the ends up during the summer for extra ventilation for both chickens and the greenhouse during the hottest part of the summer? I can't wait to see the pullets! What breed did you order?
Great video, thanks!
Hi Kylia - I thought about using wire or hardware cloth over the window but then I realized I didn't need it because I'm setting them up a yard area outside the greenhouse which will be fenced. So if they did happen to fly out the window, it wouldn't matter because they would have access outside anyway. As for the summer, the chickens will not be in the greenhouse during the summer. It is just for the winter. The ends are stapled and nailed down so we won't be rolling it up. We'll probably just park it someone in the shade during the summer.
We ordered Rhode Island Reds, Copper Marans, and Ameraucana
Great choice! The RIR are great egg layers too, I don't have Copper Marans, I do have some Easter Eggers, they were supposed to be Ameracauna, hmm, but sadly, all but 5 have gotten picked off. 1 rooster and I'm hopeful I have 4 hens. I have a difficult time "seeing" those skinny, pointy neck feathers of the roosters. I'm hoping to have someone young help me sort them. Boy that'll be fun, catching them.
looks good guys! How much did it cost in materials?
I need to go back and look to see exactly how much, but it was right around $300
The Grass-fed Homestead gotcha, not bad. seems like this would be one of the more cost effective ways to build a green house. thanks
The chickens won't mess with the plastic?
I hope not! We'll find out. Joel Salatin houses his layers in a poly tunnel during the winter so I'm guessing it'll be alright.
How long are the cattle panels?
16'
If you put the chickens in there they are going to destroy the plastic. I like the plans and look for an actual greenhouse though! I like your videos very nice family
Thank you! Do you know from experience they will destroy the plastic?
The Grass-fed Homestead Not with that grade of plastic but while trying to keep my free range birds in a run I used a tarp on the top and they destroyed it. They will probably leave it alone for a while if they have enough to forage and keep busy but they are curious creatures I've found.
The Grass-fed Homestead looking back at Joe Salatins set up it looks like yours on a larger scale so maybe it'll work. All about trial and error to find what works best. Good luck!
Thank you. I've been giving it more thought and I think it would be easy to add some furring strips to the interior of the cattle panel (to provide some offset) and then put up some hardware cloth or chick netting to keep them off the plastic. I'd like to see if it goes well without it but by the time I figure out it isn't going well, they will have already damaged the plastic and I don't want that.
Was it racoon proof?
Not sure. I don't think we ever had an attempt
a possum will go right through that to kill chickens at night.
Nice job guys :) on the comments below will the chickens peck through the plastic? They might. They get bored and peck at everything that catches their eye really. You can always offset that by placing a wall board maybe 18" high around. We are going to put wire over the entire structure then plastic it over. Raccoons and possums love to climb here... :)o I wish our door worked as well as yours lol :) You guys did a wonderful job ...in the words of Little Buddy...I wuv it! what a cutie he is :)
Thank you! :) I witnessed the chickens peck at the plastic so I put up wire. You can see that in this video: ua-cam.com/video/8bjX1KdWLkI/v-deo.html
Did you build the same/similar design?
Yeah similar except we went with 2 cattle panel design & will join 2 buildings together. (each bldg is approx 8ftx9.5ft)One with an arctic reversible tarp the other just covered clear Poly on top though I'd love to turn it into a greenhouse too. But I think to keep the chickens in a plastic environment might be too much moisture & will produce bad breathing conditions so we'll be giving them windbreaks with plywood & open air mesh covered runs. All our chickens are heavy cold hardy breeds
I put up the electric fence around the greenhouse so the chickens have access to the outside.
oh that will be great :) I don't think it would work for us because our area is bountiful with hawks (they love to nest in our pines & perch in apple trees) & owls. But yours should work great with that secured run. Good luck!
You know that the predator that would break that latch could easily just push through the plastic right