• Last updated 4/4/13 by SeaChick

  Our Garage CoopWe used to live in the suburbs on a small lot, only 100 x 55 feet. We decided to utilize part of our existing garage for the henhouse and save the yard real estate for the enclosed run. We also had other considerations based on the brand new city ordinance about keeping chickens, which we helped pass in 2007: the coop has to be aesthetically pleasing, it has to have wire buried 12" deep and no chicken wire, etc. We're only allowed up to 6 hens (no roosters) so we knew that we didn't need to build bigger for a possible future flock. Since our city... read more

• Last updated 12/5/07 by ruth

THE CHICK SHELL-A  Front of Coop Back of Coop Painted and with vintage signs  Back of Coop Painted - Black Plastic Drape that can be dropped to cover vented area during cold nights. How the top is made Back of coop with doors open   Sides lift up to get to nest boxes.  Plywood floor and nest dividers slide out for cleaning or replacing. Nest boxes with hay.  Just waiting on eggs.  Lots and Lots of Eggs - Almost always laid in far left nest box. Everyone shares one box instead of using the other seven. Inside view of one end. Two sides are mirror images.  No divider down... read more

• Last updated 11/10/07 by horsewishr

horsewishr's placeI'm Michelle, from Holland, Michigan. I live about 3 miles from the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline. We got our first four chicks in April '07, and then turned an old playhouseinto a coop. My husband and I also have two sons ('93 and '95 models!),two dogs, a cat, a "big" horse, and a miniature horse. I'm looking forwardto a few more hens over the years--but I don't want to go too crazy! The red barn hanging in the window frame is the nest box. The barn door opens, so we can gather eggs without setting foot in the coop. The garden... read more

• Last updated 10/6/07 by WVJeanne

Jeanne's Bantam Coop  When we moved to West Virginia from Massachusetts three years ago, my husband and I decided we wanted to raise some bantam chickens in addition to our laying flock.   I had bantams in Massachusetts and didn't care for the coop we had built there.  It was about 12 by 6 feet and was divided into four 3 foot by 6 foot rooms.  I had different breeds of bantams and wanted to keep them separated. This time, I wanted room to store the feed and other supplies in the coop and I didn't want to have to go outside to enter each separate room in the coop. ... read more

• Last updated 10/1/07 by adeters2

Welcome to my Granja de Pollos...aka Chicken Farm!   Ok, so it's not really a farm... But I do have chickens!!  This page is to display my newest coop design.  It is constructed out of Cull wood bought from Lowes Home Improvement.  You can get good wood for almost half the price!  Anyways, here is the coop.  It stands 6' 6" tall at the peak from outside.  8 feet long and 6 feet wide.  I built the frame with 4x4 corner posts and 2x4 wall studs.   The floor is raised off the ground about 8 inches in the front and 12 in the rear. (unlevel ground...)  This also gives the... read more

• Last updated 9/9/07 by imloulou

My husband and son built this coop entirely from recycled wood and recycled "stuff". They bought one concrete block (they already had the others needed to support the floor) and the screws and nails. The roof was leftover from our house shingles...when we had our roof replaced from Hurricane Ivan.(I do not have any plans since it was made without a plan in sight and was designed as it was built.) This is the left side run that runs behind our workshop: This is the left side run showing the entrance into the main coop (this is all protected):Here is the area to the... read more

• Last updated 8/19/07 by cookinmom

Valerie's Chicken Coop This is the view from the Northwest corner This is the view from the Northeast corner Here is the view from the South side And here's the view from the North side And just so we don't forget who's house this is ..... Here's where we go to get all those lovely eggs.. And here are some of the occupants, We searched a lot of websites looking for plans for a small chicken house, but this is the one we ended up using. http://www.buildeazy.com/chicken_coop_8.html We made a few modifications. We extended the beam for... read more