Can anyone identify this room attached to coop

[harmon]

This room is attached on the end of a chicken coop on a small farm I'm buying on the Oklahoma Missouri border. I thought maybe it was for slaughtering birds but i cant tell. Also i attached a picture of the coop end.

[kudzuvine]

it could be a number of things. does it have water and/or elec running to it? If they sold eggs, it could have been a place to clean, sort and pkg eggs...it could have been just a place to store feed, egg cartons, supplies - but it's good storage for you....Janet

[aart]

I find the pics very confusing....but an 'extra room' in a coop....it's extra room.
Maybe segregation for broodies or a mating pen or a rooster room....or storage.
Or knock the wall down and make the coop bigger.....or...

Does it have a separate entrance? A pic of the whole coop building and a pic of inside the coop and a pic of the 'extra room' might make answering your question easier.

[Fire-Man]

It looks to me like this building is in 2 sections. First 2 pictures taken on one end and 3rd pic taken on the other end----the 3rd picture looks like nesting boxes on the shelf. The first picture has a shelf but no nesting boxes on it. To me this looks like a storage building that someone converted with the wire doors to keep some type of animal or animals in. I do not see any roost/perches for the chickens. Just My Guessing!

[sriston]

We built an extra room in our coop. It is a brooder room, although we use it for a separation room, too. One of the handiest things we decided to do.

[harmon]

Thanks for all the replies. I hadn't considered a separate brooding room. We raised chickens from the time I was in fourth through 10th grade, but we just had a coop inside of a pen. The pen was at the woods edge behind our house with the coop between our house and most of the pen, and the pen faced away from our house so I never even saw the birds unless I was out collecting eggs / feeding. I never really learned anything about it except collecting eggs and feeding and watering them. I was in 4H the first year or so, but other than that, no formal education (or informal for that matter).

And yes fireman, your description of the photos was dead on. I didnt explain the photos because I assumed anyone answering with their opinion would have enough experience with coops to recognize them . Also the description of the insides of the coop were right on, I didnt actually go inside the coop, I had seen enough of the place to make an offer, the coop wasnt going to make or break the offer or the sale. I guess I should go inspect everything a little closer now. Its been a long time but I'm almost certain growing up our coop had no perches. I dont remember anything in the coop other than straw, the laying boxes, and a heat lamp in winter. The coop had a regular wooden door as the only means of entry / exit.

I dont know if this question should have its own thread, but as far as doors go, am I correct in assuming I need a solid type door for the end of this coop (where there is currently a stock panel?

The entire end of this coop is open.

[Fire-Man]

Originally Posted by harmon

Thanks for all the replies. I hadn't considered a separate brooding room. We raised chickens from the time I was in fourth through 10th grade, but we just had a coop inside of a pen. The pen was at the woods edge behind our house with the coop between our house and most of the pen, and the pen faced away from our house so I never even saw the birds unless I was out collecting eggs / feeding. I never really learned anything about it except collecting eggs and feeding and watering them. I was in 4H the first year or so, but other than that, no formal education (or informal for that matter).

And yes fireman, your description of the photos was dead on. I didnt explain the photos because I assumed anyone answering with their opinion would have enough experience with coops to recognize them . Also the description of the insides of the coop were right on, I didnt actually go inside the coop, I had seen enough of the place to make an offer, the coop wasnt going to make or break the offer or the sale. I guess I should go inspect everything a little closer now. Its been a long time but I'm almost certain growing up our coop had no perches. I dont remember anything in the coop other than straw, the laying boxes, and a heat lamp in winter. The coop had a regular wooden door as the only means of entry / exit.

I dont know if this question should have its own thread, but as far as doors go, am I correct in assuming I need a solid type door for the end of this coop (where there is currently a stock panel?

The entire end of this coop is open.

I did not take the time to look up your area to see how cold it gets------but if it gets Real cold---closing the coop up tighter during the winter is a good Idea. Here we need our coops some-what open so they are not so hot in the summer. I had a chicken coop inside a chainlink chicken yard that I never closed the door on for years until I started having preditor problems.

Having somewhere for the chickens to roost makes them feel safer---in my opinion. A roost is simple to build. I like to use small trees out the woods.

[harmon]

nice roost. theres no shortage of trees out there, I suppose a roost is one of the things I'll get done my first week out there. I'm in zone 6. the oen end of th coop is on the west end.