tylermckee's Chicken Coop

Our Chicken Coop

Our chicken coop is 4' x 4.5' with a 6' x 10' run. Floor is framed with 2x4 and covered with OSB, walls are 2x2 framing, with t1-11 siding. All the trim I made from cheap cedar fence boards that i ripped to the desired width. Run is all 2x4 framing with pressure treated on the bottom. 2"x2" wire on the sides and top, with 30" of 1/2" hardware cloth around the bottom.

The two front doors open for easy access and what not. The front 2 windows are covered with hardware cloth and have slide out plexiglass windows.

The nesting boxes are to the left they run the length of the coop, they are divided into 3 boxes. The roof opens for easy egg hunting, in a few months, hopefully! The window has become a favorite of the chickens and my wife!

We choose to use sand inside of our coop and like it alot, it has been really easy to clean up the poop! I made a poop screen made out of gutter gaurd and some scrap cedar. The roost was made from a log we got at the beach a few years back, the chicks love it up there. Scrap plywood is covering the nesting boxes from the inside until the chicks are a little older.

This is the chicks door going out into the run.

The door opens down onto the ramp.

One of the girls "doug" roosting! (Our 2 1/2 year old named her!!)

The girls hangin' out inside the coop!

The cost of our coop and run came out to roughly 300 dollars

Coop
siding $44
2x2's $20
2x4's $9
roofing $20
cedar fence boards (used for trim) $12
hinges $10
misc. $35

Free
OSB
pretreated 2x4's
plexiglass
hinges (used on the front doors)
paint

Run
Hardware cloth $70
lumber $50
hinges and latch $10
staples $10
misc. $10


So far we love everything about the coop. The only thing we would have done differently is made it bigger so we could get more chickens!!