• Last updated 4/16/13 by melliott

My name is Mike and my wife is Kim and our little ones are Morgan and Kayla...so its M&K farms. Anyway we dont live on a farm we live in the middle of the city and we wanted chickens but wanted the coop to blend in and not be a sore subject with the neighbors so this is what we came up with. Its 4X10 with the coop/hen house being 4X4 by 3 foot tall. We painted it the same as our house with left over paint and we plan on adding landscaping this summer to spruce it up a bit.     read more

• Last updated 4/18/13 by pysankigirl

      Apologies for the blurry photo...it will be replaced when I find my camera downloading thingie!              This coop design started with the idea that we needed rain shelter for our goats, and if we were building a roof anyway, we might as well raise it by a couple of feet and make it a combination goat shelter/chicken coop.  Design criteria:   42” underside height for goats Maximize roost length and therefore # of chickens Employ the Sweet PDZ poop trays that I loved about our first coop Protect the PDZ from... read more

• Last updated 4/15/13 by chickety china

      'Chic Urban Chicken Living' We live in an urban location in Los Angeles with limited yard space.  I wanted something that was large enough to comfortably house my chickens but fit in nicely to our yard and was pleasing to the eye.  I wanted to repurpose as much as I could, so I took old windows and a door that we had stored in our garage to add some character.  Bonus: they were free!   I started drawing-up some designs after researching what was needed.  Since we live in a very hot part of Los Angeles, summers are upwards of 100 degrees, I wanted... read more

• Last updated 4/19/13 by aaronri

If you asked me even a year ago if I would ever own chickens, I would probably look at you funny and say "No, I doubt it..." My girlfriend and I came to own chickens when the house we bought had existing outbuildings, and one of them had been used to raise bantam roosters for show in the past. We liked the idea of getting a flock of our own, to have for eggs and entertainment. We were supposed to close by Jan 18th, and didn't end up closing until Feb 22nd. I had already ordered the chickens from eFowl.com thinking that we would be in the new house by February, and they... read more

• Last updated 4/14/13 by Byteme

    !0 years ago I built my children a two story playhouse and sheathed it in stucco to match our house.  Needless to say they outgrew it in less time than it took to build it and there it sat.  I'd look at it sadly and wonder what I'd been thinking when I built something that couldn't be dismantled when the light went on.  Coop!  Out came the tools and there it was.  Insta-coop!  It wasn't quite that easy, but close enough.  I built the Fort Knox run using the swing set beam to run the rafters and ordered a recycled billboard cloth to cover the run.  You may have... read more

• Last updated 4/14/13 by Comaplata

First time chicken owner, first time poster and first time coop builder here. My wife came home with a box full of TSC chicks 5 weeks ago. I had to take a crash course on chicken raising, thank goodness for BYC, and rush to build a brooder, thank goodness for sterilite totes. Five weeks seems like a long time to build a coop, but in my line of work, that really just means a couple of weekends. Here is my almost finished product. We call it "Cluck Commander". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSZ7hlwZQAY read more

• Last updated 4/14/13 by suzannevans

  I have been wanting chicks for a long time and the weekend before Easter Mark looked at me and said, "You wanna go get some chicks?"  My response was "HECK YA!!!" So off we went to the local farm store. In our case, *The chick's came before the Coop!* Now that we had all these chicks we had to figure out what kind of coop we wanted. So we grabbed a roll of Bounty paper towels, started sketching and we were off. Unfortunately we had a little spill while constructing the walls in the garage and the blueprints for my coop just so happened to be the closest... read more

• Last updated 4/13/13 by Sherena

Almost - Completed Chicken Palace or as my wife calls it the "Chilton"     Chicken Dance Floor (makes it easier to clean out by using lino tiles). We found these at Habitat for Humanity. We covered these with sand now.      Rainwater return system is incorporated into the auto-watering for chickens to make sure they've always got water.     Close-up of the Auto-Water system for the chickens, just took some PVC piping and tapped it for the feeder nipples then ran it into a rainwater-return system we built.       Another angle of the... read more

• Last updated 4/13/13 by Thistlelady

Here is our finished coop. It took about 3 weeks to complete & we only bought the wire and hardware. All lumber items were laying around the house or a friends house.I had a window and a door laying around too. Our Coop is  6' x 3.5' with a 6'x6' run. The coop is raised about 12" at the door. All wire is nailed to a 2x4 then sandwiched with a second 2x4. It is also berried 8 to 12 inches. It is also tall enough for me to get in to clean. We put a roof over the whole coop, since we live in Colorado and you never know what the weather will be like. There is a 6'... read more

• Last updated 4/13/13 by roginc

 The coop was build out of reclaimed wood I found around town. Pallets, fencing and odds and ends. The only cost was the hardware which was about $150 total. We have 8 chickens; 2 Americanas, 2 Australorps, 2 Barred Rocks and 2 Road Island Reds.     This was when I thought i was only going to have 4 chickens. When  ended up with 8 because my daughter wanted the "Ones that lay the blue eggs." And we bought a few extra for fear we would lose A few to the boy or the dog.    This is where the nesting box sits attached to the bottom run area.   The... read more