- Made of premium fir wood
- Pull out easy to access cleaning trays
- Great ventilation slot in the front wall
- Lockable outside entry door
- Size: 100" x 40" x 59"
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Product Description
Chicken Coop HJB112-F
Specifications and Features
- Material: premium fir wood.
- Size: 100"x40"x59" inches.
- Lockable outside door.
- Pull out drawer for easy cleaning.
- Ventilation slots in the side walls.
- Model: HJB112-F.
- Walk up access ramp inside coop.
- Nesting box with top access.
- Hinged roof for easy food and water access.
- Holds up to 8-10 Bantams or 4-6 Standard Hens.
- Comes with assembly instructions
NOTE: Fir wood is a light density wood which has very good odor control properties that aren't found in other heavier woods. Due to it being a lighter density wood, holes are pre-drilled in many places to help avoid splitting. It does not require much force to strip out or over-tighten the screws. Please use appropriate techniques for working with fir wood during assembly!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Solid construction, Well built, GREAT value for the money.,
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This review is from: Large Wood Chicken Coop Nest Box Rabbit Hutch Backyard Poultry Cage Hen House 12 (Misc.)
This Chicken coop is a great value, and holds up excellent to all kinds of weather. Solid Cedar construction design will help prevent corrosion and ensure years of trouble free use.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cedar is a safe, rot resistant building material,
By cachkn46 (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Large Wood Chicken Coop Nest Box Rabbit Hutch Backyard Poultry Cage Hen House 12 (Misc.)
I don't have this coop but I do have chickens and know something about cedar. Another reviewer, Chandler, posted a 1-star review claiming that cedar can kill your chickens. Nonsense. This person misunderstood or was mislead by her reading, and I'd hate to see someone's business destroyed because of it.Cedar housing does NOT kill chickens. The danger lies in inhalation of the wood DUST, a hazard for anyone who is heavily exposed, such as sawmill workers, as well as animals housed on sawdust or wood shavings. Western red cedar is the worst offender because it contains more plicatic acid, a potent irritant, than any other wood. But heavy exposure to dust from ANY wood can cause disease. Check the OSHA guidelines to verify this. Also note that the OSHA guidelines say nothing about illness caused by exposure to a plank of wood (of cedar or any other tree). Similarly, the animal studies implicating cedar in various diseases were done with animals living on cedar SHAVINGS, and therefore at risk of inhaling (and possibly ingesting) a lot of DUST. No study shows that animals get sick from living in a cedar house. Some pet fanciers and wildlife enthusiasts make some wild claims on their websites, but if you check their sources, I think you will find, as I have, that the actual studies which appear in peer reviewed journals, refer to exposure to the DUST. If inhalation of the dust particles can cause illness, why doesn't standing on plank of the wood make you sick? Because a substance has to enter the body in order to cause disease, and if you're a mammal or a bird, you can't get it into your body unless you inhale or eat actual wood particles. You and your pets won't get sick just by breathing the air around cedar planks. That's because the irritants in cedar are heavy (relatively high molecular weight) and too tightly bound (hydrogen bonded) to the cellulose fibers, to come out of the wood and get into the air as a gas, in appreciable quantity. More will get into the air from a pile of SHAVINGS, given the much higher surface area, relative to a plank of wood. If you're a frog or salamander, you can absorb some substances through your skin, so sitting on a plank of cedar MIGHT be dangerous. But chickens don't absorb these compounds through their skin, and they don't eat the walls of their coop or grind them to dust. They do grind the litter to dust, though, and could theoretically get sick from shavings of ANY wood, with cedar causing the most serious problems. There is no USDA document that says, as Chandler claims, that cedar is dangerous to poultry. The document says it kills or repels INSECTS. This is important information for poultry farmers because it means cedar housing is less susceptible to termite and carpenter ant infestation. And cedar's affect on insects should not be news. This is why your grandmother kept wool sweaters in a cedar chest and why some people have cedar closets - to repel wool eating moths. But did you or your pets ever get sick from having that wood in your house? Not unless you ground it up and inhaled it or ate it. Cedar is an expensive wood, a preferred building material for outside housing due to its rot resistance. It will stand up to weather better than many other woods, and for that reason, many people have been using it for years and years to house their chickens. These people report no unusual rate of death or illness in their chickens. If they did, they would use something else. Even people who don't think of chickens as pets, do not want to lose their source of eggs. So there is no reason to destroy someone's business with frightening claims. Just be sure ventilation is good (no matter what wood you use) and use something other than cedar shavings for litter.
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This killed my aunt's chickens--cedar is highly toxic to chickens,
This review is from: Large Wood Chicken Coop Nest Box Rabbit Hutch Backyard Poultry Cage Hen House 12 (Misc.)
It's people who aren't familiar with chickens but think they can make something liess expensive by using cedar that give me shivers.Any chicken owner knows that cedar is toxic to chickens. If they don't immediately develop respiratory problems or die, then it will slowly reak havoc on their livers meaning they won't live as long. Just google chickens and cedar or cheickens cedar toxicity and you can read all the storie of people who didn't realize this who watched a loved chicken die from it. Although I'm an advocate for chickens and even treat some that vets cannot help, even if you think of your chickens as food or egg layers, a sick one will still cost you...but for me it's all about compassion and a good life. This isn't it. My aunt called me when her chickens fell ill and some died to ask about food, etc. We went through all the usual questions about feeding table scraps with something toxic like onion and avocado to no avail...then I visited her and smelled the cedar....I said "This IS NOT cedar is it?" We ditched the coop for a pine one and they are now all fully recovered. It's a beautiful coop but it's a sick coop. This is why all MAJOR manufacturers of coops never use cedar. Anyone who has raised chickens for long lives knows better. Ideal Poultry, one of the largest chicken breeders in the United States says right on their website to never use cedar as it's toxic to chickens. Backyard Chickens Forum, breeders of chickens and chicken experts say: Cedar and cedar shavings should not be used around any small animal. They not only cause respiratory damage but liver damage long term. That's long term. That means you won't see anything in a day, a week, maybe not in months but over years. Also you may not realize that the cedar is why your chickens died. If a chicken dies after 2years of internal damage would you guess it was the cedar shavings if you hadn't been told? From "Raising Chickens for Dummies": Do not use cedar shavings (toxic to chickens) or kitty litter (will turn to clay in their stomach). Do not use newspaper. From the Small Farm Management page: "Be sure to never use cedar as this is toxic to chickens." But if that's not enough proof for you, THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE advises to never use cedar wood around chickens as the oils in cut cedar are toxic to all poultry There was an actual study done on the toxicity of cedar for caged birds, rodents, and poultry by an animal pathologist who studied the effects of being housed in cedar and found the effects to be negatively severe. As you can see from the Amazon guidelines we cannot list links in reviews but this is the name of the site that posted the study results which does list poultry and interviews the animal pathologist who did the study so that you can find it to see it has been proven: It not only is an irritant but has been found to form cancers and limit reproduction (egg laying) as well as being in irritant to lungs etc Melissa Kaplan's Herp Care Collection Last updated December 18, 2009 Use of Cedar as a Substrate for Reptiles and Other Pets
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