Questions about a Little Tikes coop

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chickp

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So I have decided to get a bigger coop for my four girls after some good advice here, and found a very good price for a Little Tikes house that I'm going to pick up today and modify. I saw the awesome thread that someone put up about theirs and it was very helpful, but I am wondering about how to attach a run on to it and if it needs to be elevated. Also, would you all recommend a plywood floor or wire with pine shavings? Just trying to wade through all the info here! Thanks.
 
Plywood floor covered with linoleum for easy cleaning, plus, if I could, I would build a run entirely around the playhouse and make it taller than me for easy access. You can put netting over the top of the run.
 
I'm working on another one right now and will be redoing the others soon. I recommend raising your floor and putting it on plywood with vinyl flooring. So much easier to clean.

As for attaching it to the run, I've done it 2 different ways. One is attached by sinking large eyehooks into the pop door area of the coop.

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I then attach the eyehooks to the chainlink with "hog rings"


With the other one, sorry not a good picture

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I framed the pophole inside and out and then sandwiched the chainlink between another frame and the coop. It's not coming apart.
 
I put mine on tiled plywood and have it on rollers to move it around. It would be more secure in a covered run.



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I put mine on tiled plywood and have it on rollers to move it around. It would be more secure in a covered run.

hey! i used to have that yellow play house!! Now it's my niece's! When she gets older maybe I'll take it back!​
 
The yellow one is exactly the one I got! Still not quite sure how we're going to do the run, but we have a bunch of free 2 x 4s if we want, so we may just make a frame with that and use the pop out door with a ramp. Do you all leave the big door open so you can get in to clean it? I have seen one with a sliding lock on it but it still opens.

Will go for the plywood with linoleum, sounds like the best choice.

And has anyone painted theirs with that Krylon stuff? I was sort of thinking about it for the outside....
 
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hey! i used to have that yellow play house!! Now it's my niece's! When she gets older maybe I'll take it back!

Grab it!! I love mine and bought another one that I have to modify soon. I don't have them in that for our cold winters rather they go into one of the unused garages with a little heat. These are only summer ones combined with a run as they are pretty small to have the door closed on them all day.
 
Toast'n Jelly :

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hey! i used to have that yellow play house!! Now it's my niece's! When she gets older maybe I'll take it back!

Grab it!! I love mine and bought another one that I have to modify soon. I don't have them in that for our cold winters rather they go into one of the unused garages with a little heat. These are only summer ones combined with a run as they are pretty small to have the door closed on them all day.​

That's the yellow playhouse in the 2nd pic, lol.

The 2 in the picture are about to go through overhauls. I liked them at first, but over the last couple months I have realized how small they actually are. I love them for convience. Just need a bit more work to make me happy.
 
When I was considering doing one like that I was going to get a garden cart off of Craigslist and building a plywood base onto it. Then creating a slide out floor and putting the playhouse on top of that. Attachable run panels that simply screw together and onto the playhouse so I could move iteasily but be secure when still.
 
I also have a Litle Tikes play house as a coop It is the girls gingerbread style. I find it is nice and easy to move and now that the girls are starting to lay I bolted an old wooden tool box just below and inside of the the back window makes it easy to check for eggs. The girls got a little out of hand the other day and messed up my neighbors flower bed so..... I built a moveable fenced enclosure on the spot. I want to make it a little easier to move in the comming weeks I have the ideas in my head to convert that playhouse into a durable and nifty chicken tractor. All I really need is to purchase two 2x10s that will alow me to move it like a third class lever I have all the other stuff I need. MM
 

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