• Created 12/4/13 by Idess

This last April my boyfriend and I received 6 tiny chicks in the mail, and with much prior research and planning, we started work on our backyard coop. All Spring and Summer long we worked almost non-stop on creating "Fort Cluckins", our fairly massive medium-sized coop and run located in Fort Collins, Colorado!     Our biggest inspirations came from http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-palace , http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/wichita-cabin-coop , and the aesthetic pleasing look of http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/navychicks-page . Our coop is located on the... read more

• Created 11/28/13 by Lancaster KY

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• Created 11/28/13 by Lancaster KY

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• Created 11/27/13 by nkkennedy

Last Thanksgiving if you asked me if I would ever own a back yard flock I probably would have said it's cool, but it will never happen....well.....one year later:     This all started last August while my boyfriend and I were house sitting on my friends farm. There were a few horses and a chicken coop with 8 hens. After spending a week at this farm both my boyfriend and I became very fond of her hens. I jokingly kept saying that I wanted chickens and one day my boyfriend actually mentioned interest in building a coop. Over the winter we started researching what type... read more

• Created 11/27/13 by Sciencediva

What came first, the chicken or the coop? The co-evolution of my chicken obsession and my coop!   Once upon a time the opportunity presented itself to have “summer chickens”. This involved raising baby chicks from Easter all the way through fall and then giving them back to the farmer who they belonged to. What a wonderful experience for our children to have the opportunity to see the chickens develop and grow, without having to commit to anything beyond that.   I could not have been any more wrong!     We received three adorable little yellow fuzzy balls on... read more

• Created 11/25/13 by Kathryn4629

Welcome to my coop page!! After much procrastination and thought I have finally decided to make a coop page. My coop is a remodeled 16x8 barn shed, the kind that you get from the home improvement store. The shed is about 15 years old and when I started it had for sure seen better days. It was originally used to store grain and tack for the horses, then the shingles started flying off the roof and it was deserted because the roof leaked. When I started work on it I fondly referred to it as the yellow-jacket barn, because it was full of them! But.... Before I started this... read more

• Created 11/24/13 by DonGallina

Don Gallina Makes His First Coop!     I've been wanting to get backyard chickens for a long time. I live in the city (Lima, Peru) with limited space, so I just wanted to build a coop that was big enough for 2-3 hens. After looking at many, many designs I settled on building a combination of these two designs:   Keep in Simple http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/basic-backyard-coop-keep-it-simple I liked how this design utilized the 4x8 sheets of plywood to the fullest extent, and the coop was simple which made me think that I could actually build it. I followed... read more

• Created 11/23/13 by Alaskan

I wanted chickens for a very long time. When I was little, I would visit my grandparents, by myself. One of my jobs was to take care of the chickens. I did the feeding, watering, and the cleaning of the coop. I loved it, even the coop cleaning. My grandmother used hay, in a deep litter kind of method, in that she would toss fresh hay on top of the old soiled bedding. By the time I would show up, it looked fine, until I started to shovel it into the wheel barrow. Then the stench would make my eyes smart. All of that soiled hay was taken to the vegetable garden... read more

• Created 11/22/13 by roostersandhens

 The door way, this coop is connected to the barn, inside the barn is another coop. This is the rooster who owns the coop I am showing you We will call this coop Eddy's coop this is Eddy: More of Eddy's coop: Eddy's coop is actually just a shed, we added perches inside and nesting boxes.    This is the inside of Eddy's coop:           This is my other rooster, Oreo: So this next coop is "Oreo's Coop" Here are the pictures: Oreo's coop is inside a barn, this 1st picture is the barn the rest are the coop:         Oreo's coop... read more

• Created 11/18/13 by sentinelchicken

I got two chickens from our Mosquito Control sentinel chicken program.  They are about 10 months old and have been laying regularly.  They have been handled frequently and are very tame.  I'm not sure of the breeds.  The white one is Laverne and the brown is Shirley.  Since I only had a week to prepare them a space to live, we had to improvise with what we had on hand.  This is the story of my chicken tractor, aka chicken tank because it ended up being so dang heavy!         Day 1: We re-purposed a metal dogbox as the base of the chicken tractor.  It was 3'W x 3'L... read more