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  1. My Coop Design With Plans

    My Coop Design With Plans

    The Plans After looking online for combination chicken coops with integrated runs, we were not willing to hand over the £500 that these cost. So I sat down with some paper and a pen, and sketched out a design which I guessed would cost around £60 in timber to produce. The idea is an integrated...
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    Drop Out floors on coops????

    I'm in the early stages of planning a new coop, and I am going to have a collpasing floor over half the run (to let you walk in to clean inside. My idea for a catch was a long piece of rebar or threaded rod running along the open side of the floor, which you could pull out and push in with a...
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    ••• 2008 Coop Page Contest - Win A $20 BYC Gift Certificate - ENDED

    Yeh the shed thing, I think next time I build a coop, I will definitely start with a shed as my base material - you have to add and modify it so much that it could hardly be called cheating to miss out the boring box construction bit!
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    ••• 2008 Coop Page Contest - Win A $20 BYC Gift Certificate - ENDED

    Thanks for the comments on the coop. The four chickens seem to like the house - if we want more I'll need to extend the coop, I think, it's large enough for four but probably no more. The chickens seem happy enough, all four are laying, and exploring the garden (and house!) so we're happy with...
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    ••• 2008 Coop Page Contest - Win A $20 BYC Gift Certificate - ENDED

    Just uploaded my coop, with full story of how I built it. https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=7961-MyCoopDesign Hope I did it all properly!
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