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Also to those who suggested I make the roosting pole larger, I just put in a nice big plank of wood, wide side up, for them this morning! Thanks for the tip y'all! :)

Love it!!!

The roosting pole was put in when they were much tinier chicks - now that they're almost 4 months old I believe you're right, it's time to upgrade to big chicken roosts :) And maybe the pic has some funky perspective but the nest boxes are covered :)

Actually the bar you might be referring to is the nest box top... Their perch is above it, and it's made of a thick wooden stake for climbing veggie vines. In terms if the chicken wire, I do realize its limitations but they mostly free range anyway. And I have a perimeter fence, a very barky dog...

Always updating! Just painted the coop with barn paint, added a hinged egg door that locks, and made the nest box top hinged for easy egg access. Also recently made the coop floor raised because of recent flooding. The gals are living in style Egg door Raised area with food/water...

No worries, they're not allowed in the backyard at the same time. The vicious white fluff machine is too old and ornery to put up with the chickens. So they go back in their run when the pup comes out :)

Ah she comes in at night. Hoping her scent keeps the raccoons away. But if not, they get locked up tight at night, and I even put a brick in front of their coop door. :)

Actually we live in a pretty quiet suburban area with not many predators. I've seen a handful of outdoor cats and some birds of prey but otherwise no other critters. Oh and also we have one of these vicious beasts to protect our chickens ;)

Hey there. I posted a pic of my pallet coop a few weeks ago, and some folks recommended I make the run bigger - so I took some advice from some of the other threads on here and built a pvc extension that we can climb in and hang out with them! Behold! Yeah, the door isn't exactly the right...

Thank you for the advice! Once I get some money I'll definitely reinforce my fencing! And both the human and chick doors have double latches that lock into place :) I plan on renovating periodically to update their space (building equity in a chicken coop? Haha)

The coop has a chicken door (front) and human door (side) both of which can be locked. The wire is anchored to the ground around every 8 inches or so using metal spikes that I drove into the dirt and affixed to the fence using wire. It cost me less than $70 for this whole project! :)

I am new to having backyard chickens, and wanted to build my own coop out of pallets and found materials. I've never built anything before, but I've gotten pretty handy repairing things at my job. So anywho, here is the finished product! A pallet coop with a fenced in run for my 4 six-week-old...