coop du jour

Posted 04/07/12 • Last updated 04/07/12 • 1265 views • 10 comments

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My husband and I designed this after viewing so many great coops on BYC website. It measures 4x6, it's approx 8 ft tall, has 3 nesting boxes, storage and wheels for easy moving! We and more importantly the girls love it!

Comments (10)

joan1708 4/6/12 at 8:49pm

very clean, professional and good looking. Looks like an original design. What does the inside look like? Has it rained yet? No leaking from the nest box hinge? Did you make the vent windows? How many chickens are you going to have in there?

Bogtown Chick 4/6/12 at 9:55pm

Fabulous!!

Elise Ilona 4/7/12 at 5:50am

Gorgeous. You and your husband could have a part time business!!!

Elise Ilona 4/7/12 at 5:51am

BTW - I see you have a tractor mower pulling it. Can you and your husband move it without a vehicle?

ysglass 4/7/12 at 5:43pm

NICE! Just beautiful.

slawson 4/7/12 at 8:21pm

No leaking from the nesting box and storage box because it has rubber flashing under the siding and hinges and it also has a termination strip holding it all down. It has an insulated ceiling, vinyl flooring, 2 roosting bars, 3 nesting boxes and a hanging feeder. The windows were from the local do it center, 1 window is a basement window and there are 2 vent windows for glass block tile (which works quite nicely). It can be moved with two people easily.... it has 4 wheels, the front end set are swivel casters wheels and the rear are larger utility trailer wheels. the girls seems to really enjoy it! thanks for all your awesome comments!

PEI chicken 4/8/12 at 5:07am

I love the design and especially the wheels for portability. Do you attach the wire run (shown in background) somehow, and do you move it when you move the main part of the coop?

slawson 4/8/12 at 8:58am

to PEI chicken; we have problems with night predators so we have a closed hard wired run 5x10 ft which butts up to the coop chicken door, then after 8:00 am I let them out into the soft fenced area which provides some free ranging space, with ~200 ft of fence.

PEI chicken 4/10/12 at 2:08pm

Great!