Coopdelisle's Chicken Coop

Posted 04/30/08 • Last updated 04/30/08 • 54046 views • 9 comments

This is the beginning of our new family home!

Coop DeLisle...

This all started because of all the bugs in the yard that destroyed last year's garden. After searching the web, we found backyardchicken.com and got hooked, which was not that hard as we love animals. The platform was an old wooden screen room project that never got finished. We were about to burn, but then we got the idea to use it as the base of what you see now.

As the building started to come together, and the more we read from ones who were sharing their experiences, we realized the coop was too small for how many chickens we were getting, so we had to add on to the back. This made the coop 11ft. X 8ft. on the inside. The back section was lowered an extra 2" for extra pine shavings under the roost to help keep it contained there.

framing

coop

The windows and door were some old ones we picked up in our travels. They were cheap and they had been stored in an old barn and were covered with rat droppings and a few chewed up areas. We reworked them and they turned out great. The windows are tall so the coop gets great ventilation when they are open and the chickens can see out.

windows

inside

We sprayed the inside with gloss paint for ease of cleaning and installed low cost vinyl flooring for cleaning. We also used plastic shoe molding along the edges because it cleans up quicker.

coop

Next we added steps and the run.

For the run we used landscape timbers because they are only about $2.00 a post. Plus we kept the walls at 6ft. so that the hardware cloth was the 36" wide and this also kept the price down. We did cover part of the run with tin so the babies will have shade

run

Then we made a private entrance for them

so as to enter the run..

stairs

first

Finally, we finished it with some paint and added lattice to keep other animals from going under the coop. Then we built the nesting box off the side so as not to take up space in the main part of the coop.

back

side

front

side

nest boxes

After all this we are greeted every morning with a friendly bok!!!

greeting

Now we are just waiting for our return of fresh eggs

sign

Our future plans are to get power and water to the coop, this will be the last of the work for now to

Coop DeLisle!!!

PS...DeLisle is the name of the community in which we live....

Comments (9)

Pam Espinoza 3/31/12 at 10:19am

Good Morning
I just recently retired in California and have moved to Wyoming. While my home is being built here, I find myslef looking at chicken coop designs as one of my dreams is to have some backyard chickens. Anyway--I really like you coop. Are there designs for you coop? Would love to obtain a copy. Any guidance you can give will be greatly appreciated
Pam

nanabear37 5/5/12 at 5:24am

Love the openess of this. Lots of light and ventilation. Getting ready to build a much larger second coop and run and will keep this tucked in my head for later use. Thank you for posting.

bcmom 5/6/12 at 8:24am

Hello from Georgia. I really like your design! Do you have any copies of it?

Patsy2757 5/9/12 at 5:46pm

Your coop is just the cutest ever! Hope you don't mind if I steel a few of your design ideas!

Caperose 5/24/12 at 9:45am

We just started building our coop today. We are using your design as our inspiration and just hope we can come near yours. Thanks for all the great ideas.

CoopDelisle 6/5/12 at 8:32pm

Thanks everyone for your Kind comments. We love our coop and everyday we get about 16 eggs. We haven't been on the site for some time. So we will try to post some new Pics., soon.