• Last updated 4/29/13 by trinkets94

Our last coop was a large walk-in frame with little house on stilts inside of it.  We needed something movable this time around, so I wanted to go with a tractor type design.  I decided to do run below with a nesting/roosting house up above.     The coop is accessible from the run via a ramp attached to a door flap in the bottom of the coop.  At night, I pull the ramp up with a wire and it closes the door, protecting from cold and predators.             There are two front doors, both open.  One doorway is covered with wire, so I can leave it open on... read more

• Last updated 5/11/13 by fishnet1971

Fall               Spring                                This is my babies home of homes!     In 2010 when I came home with 12 fluffy chicks my husband almost fell over. I told him we have 10 weeks to get a new chicken coop built!   And so in June of 2010 he and I started to build the new Tajmahal I call the Fluffy Butt Hut, and he calls the Time Machine. (Because I loose all track of time when I am down with my girls.)   We started looking at prebuilt sheds and plans.  Hubby was sure that we could build one from scratch a lot cheaper... read more

• Last updated 3/18/13 by candyNflowers

My husband built this medium coop with run with recycled plywood to save money but it still cost more to make than we intended but we are very happy with it. He found a sign when he bought the recycled plywood that said Serenity Garden in a pretty script so we put that on the coop. the run, including coop is about 6x8 ft. My kids like it so much that they have been treating it like a playhouse but the chickens will move into the coop soon, they are already testing out the run but its been cold at night and not all of our four chickens are fully feathered yet. I got the... read more

• Last updated 9/17/12 by Tropical Chick

We purchased our three chicks before we thought too much about the coop and we thought we had plenty of time to build a small coop.  They grew so darn fast that we started with a premade coop and then built the runs.  We decided on "The Parlor Chicken Coop" from www.chickensaloon.com and ordered it online.  It is made for about 4 hens, approximately 30 x 26 in dimensions not including the nesting box.  It arrived fairly quickly and we set it up on our back porch.  We have raccoons and hawks in our neighborhood, so thought we better re-enforce it somewhat and also... read more

• Last updated 5/1/13 by nono

  What do you get when you combine a Child's School House with a Chicken Coop?        Well, a Schoop of course!  :)          Our coop journey began two years ago when our neighbor's a few doors away converted an old wooden child's playhouse they had acquired for their daughter, into a chicken coop.  It was the perfect combination of quaint yet functional, and very aesthetically pleasing to the eye.  Sitting in their back yard during visits, I would always comment to my husband that IF we ever got chickens, that's exactly how I would want to do our... read more

• Last updated 7/3/12 by MacGuyver

This is our hoop house for our pastured system.     I wanted to build a new coop for our chickens this year. Our original coop was a stationary coop and the birds free ranged over our property. That didn't work so well for us though because we have so many predators and I was sick of losing birds. I spent the winter reading and planning. After reading Pat Foreman's Day Range Poultry I decided that I wanted to build one of her little hoop houses and use poultry netting to limit the bird's range so they would be less vulnerable to predators.      These... read more

• Last updated 6/25/12 by MacGuyver

I acquired four bantams when I was originally going to get ONE bantam and keep her in the sunroom as a semi-house chicken. Housing had to be acquired. There were no plans involved, just me walking around the barn thinking "What the heck can I build a chicken house out of really fast so I can get the birds out of my sunroom? What was I THINKING anyway??"     I had some big shipping pallets left over from a previous project, and a bunch of hardware cloth. So, I covered two pallets with cloth, and decided to make an a frame.      Sorry there aren't more... read more

• Last updated 5/3/12 by DebtFreeChicken

    Setting the corner posts.  Plenty of headroom for me (6'-0")   Starting to frame the roof for the run.  The coop will be part of the existing garden shed.   The run roof all framed up.  Using Vinyl roof panels so there is bracing every 2ft.   The run framing complete.  We then dug down and concreted under the baseboard.  Run is 8x8 with a 1"/ft drop on the roof.   Painted the roof framing so we could get the roof panels on to have some shade.  Painting before roofing made for a very clean install.   Decided to build an... read more

• Last updated 1/10/13 by rendezvous1838

I think this is an original design.  I have been looking at these pages for months and have not seen one like it.  It started ot to be like the Witchata Cabin Coop, but then evolved to be 4'x4' to just use 2 sheets of siding. All of the sudden we had version 3.0 that was bigger and looked nicer also.   I wanted a coop for 4 to 6 hens, elevated so it is easy on the back to clean, well ventilated and the nest box outside of the run.  The coop and run will be tucked in between our garage and the neighbors chainlink fence.  It has nice south and east exposure and is... read more

• Last updated 1/19/12 by brambleberries

The Pink Place   I've really needed to build a new coop lately, since we've acquired more hens and it got quite cold for a little while (I know they are fine out there but I just feel bad ), and then lastly, the coop we have now is extremely hard to collect eggs from, unnecessarily hard, actually, and I wanted something that was easier to collect from, easier to clean, and easier on the eye  I found all sorts of different coops that I could buy online that were beautiful and functional but very expensive :/  So my husband, being the Eagle Scout that he is, said,... read more