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First we want to thank everyone who has posted their stories of building their own coops and how they upgraded existing ones, we couldn't have completed ours without your help. To save money and the desire to have an attractive new chicken coop to replace our ratty old and smaller one lead us...

I had a plan, an item shopping list priced out and all my research done! Sadly my husband does not work like that!!! Designs are figured out in his head and materials purchased as needed. To keep our marriage a happy one, he is refusing to tell me how much the project ended up costing us :) The...

This is a mid-sized coop, built for about 6-8 occupants. It's insulated, and designed with easy maintenance in mind. Above the egg-boxes there's some storage-space. The whole back wall can be opened up to easily scoop out all the litter. The perches are located right in front of this door to...

My big Chicken Coop Complex is on this page: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/my-coop-journey My Free Bantam Coop is on this page: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/alaskans-no-cost-bantam-coop This page is for my two small coops, the about $8 Muscovy Coop in my orchard, and the Pond...

Alaskan's Chicken Coop Complex (I made a separate page for my Muscovy Coop and Overflow Poultry Coop: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/alaskans-smaller-coops and my free Bantam Coop: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/alaskans-no-cost-bantam-coop ) (Cold Weather Tips are at the bottom of...

In a few days, I'll be getting some laying hens from my sister along with a couple of Guinea keets! Since I didn't have a chicken coop, I had to design and build one (by myself). It's been an interesting process for someone with very few tools and very little clue as to what she was even...

Our finished Barn If we could do things differently (we still can adjust a few elements) Locks and handles inside and outside all doors Wish we had of had them install the brooder lower, so the top was easier to clean out. Made the breeding pens in the hallway with dirt flooring. The cement...

Our last coop was a large walk-in frame with little house on stilts inside of it. We needed something movable this time around, so I wanted to go with a tractor type design. I decided to do run below with a nesting/roosting house up above. The coop is accessible from the run via a ramp...

Incubation Cheat Sheet Links Chicken Column Feed Recipe Twitter Facebook Hatching Dark Eggs EZ Affordable Heated H2O Keeping Flocks Cool Ordinance Info Hatching Eggs Sales Illness Cheat Sheet First Flock Zombie Hens Dealing...

Fall Spring Summer! This is my babies home of homes! In 2010 when I came home with 12 fluffy chicks my husband almost fell over. I told him we have 10 weeks to get a new chicken coop built! And so in June of 2010 he and I started to build the new...

My husband built this medium coop with run with recycled plywood to save money but it still cost more to make than we intended but we are very happy with it. He found a sign when he bought the recycled plywood that said Serenity Garden in a pretty script so we put that on the coop. the run...

Covered Wagon 3 ft tall x 2 ft wide x 4 ft long 2 nest boxes, fair weather perch, entry gate,free range,organic,mobile Chik'n Hut total length 10 ft with run installed Hutch with 2 Stalls, cage is 38" Tall x 38"Wide x 6 ft long on legs for benefit of the keeper

These are my adventures turning the shed into a coop for a batch of Easter Egger chicks... November 28, 2012: We have an old shed on the property, divided into three sections with two doors. One of the sections is 10'x10', perfect for a huge batch of chicks, though I ordered only 25...

We purchased our three chicks before we thought too much about the coop and we thought we had plenty of time to build a small coop. They grew so darn fast that we started with a premade coop and then built the runs. We decided on "The Parlor Chicken Coop" from www.chickensaloon.com and ordered...

What do you get when you combine a Child's School House with a Chicken Coop? Well, a Schoop of course! :) Our coop journey began two years ago when our neighbor's a few doors away converted an old wooden child's playhouse they had acquired for their daughter, into a chicken coop...

This is our hoop house for our pastured system. I wanted to build a new coop for our chickens this year. Our original coop was a stationary coop and the birds free ranged over our property. That didn't work so well for us though because we have so many predators and I was sick of losing...

I acquired four bantams when I was originally going to get ONE bantam and keep her in the sunroom as a semi-house chicken. Housing had to be acquired. There were no plans involved, just me walking around the barn thinking "What the heck can I build a chicken house out of really fast so I can get...

The Fort Rox Coop Munchkin Mountain, Ohio It all began when I decided that having a few chickens around our place would be a fun and worthwhile project, for myself and our family. It would teach the kids responsibility and provide a great food source for our family. It wouldn't...

Setting the corner posts. Plenty of headroom for me (6'-0") Starting to frame the roof for the run. The coop will be part of the existing garden shed. The run roof all framed up. Using Vinyl roof panels so there is bracing every 2ft. The run framing complete. We then dug down and...

I think this is an original design. I have been looking at these pages for months and have not seen one like it. It started ot to be like the Witchata Cabin Coop, but then evolved to be 4'x4' to just use 2 sheets of siding. All of the sudden we had version 3.0 that was bigger and looked nicer...