I was looking at Home Depot sheds yesterday...

I bought a Lowe's Quick Shed 8 x 10 last year. We had to add windows, roofing shingles, wire doors (gets real hot here in Texas),nest boxes (milk crates) and roosts. It's not as nice as some of the other sheds but it has worked out great for me. You can see pictures on my BYC page. I have added another 30' x 10' fence (dog kennels) to the run on the left. It's now a 400' run. The smaller run on the right is 6 x 10. It's going to be good for my new chicks to grow out. I also recently bought a playhouse on Craigs List for $900. It's really cute and would make geat coop but for now my grandkids are playing with it. The original price of the playhouse was $2400. I would really advise newbie's to look on CL for something that could be turned into a coop. I've seen some great deals on there. I wish I would have been told to look on there before I bought my shed. That being said, I do love my shed/coop. No complaints from me.

This is like one of the buildings that lowes sells.I went to the people that build these around here for lowes and saved quiet a bit.I just framed up the brood pens inside like I wanted them.

I found a HD shed 10'x10' in my budget. Could I put a wall down the middle and use 5'x10' for a coop remodel and the other half as supply storage and garden stuff, such as lawnmower?

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Absolutlely, as long as 50 sq feet meets your needs for coop space. Lots of people on BYC have done similar. Good luck and

I just can't decide between a huge shed/coop or smaller coop with no walk-in. I have 6 hens now and will have a run and allow free access to rest of my urban backyard. My backyard is about 4500 sq ft. I thought is a walk in will be easier to get in an clean, than stooping and bending into a raised 4'x4' type coop. As I read and learn, it seems to me a coop is a nesting/laying area (nesting boxes) and raised roosting bars and that's it. If they want to walk around, then they can go outside; so why the need of all that room if the roosting (sleeping) area is big enough and they can go outside?

I like the 10'x10' shed divided to do storage and chicken coop duty, but its a big building and the cost will be only a couple hundred less than a coop-only building. I just want to spend and do it right the first time.

Im so glad someone started this.. I have a shed that I'm converting.. but needed ideas, and couldn't find any pictures of anyone that had chicken coop sheds!.. can you guys post more pictures of the insides? Heres mine:





Its 12 foot long, by 10 foot wide I do believe.. might be 12x12. I want the first 6 foot for my brooder and equiptment ect.. and the chicken area in the back, but I just cant decided how to set it up..

Can you send Picts of your shed/nests etc?

My 11 girls plus roo have been " roosting only" in a 4x5x6 coop for a few months now. My sons are going to build a 8x12x6.5 high shed and l thot l would just put the coop inside up against a wall. The coop is on 3ft legs

Looking for new ideas

Thx!

Did you add on to the 8x12??? It looks bigger!

We've converted a couple of shed to coops. Both were bought at commercial pre-built shed places and were delivered. We got a smoking deal on the biggest one, as it was hidden in the back of the lot and needed some TLC. The dealer wanted it gone because it was an eyesore...

The first 2 pics are of the "under workbench" coop we built along the 10' wall of a 10x16 shed. The coop area was insulated and lined, but the rest of the shed was not. The coop area stayed comfortable, the temperature was always higher/lower than the rest of the shed. This coop was EXTREMELY easy to build - took less than a day. We still had 99% of the shed to use for other uses. I kept up to 15 chickens in it at a time - they were outside free-ranging, and only came in to roost at night. It worked fine for that situation, but probably wouldn't be the best for a more confined situation unless you only had a few hens in it.




The pictures below are of our current 8x10 shed that is entirely converted to a coop. The chickens have the whole thing. We did line and insulate it, and also put down linoleum and installed a doggie door and roost. It was all very easy and affordable. It is lighted by several strands of LED Christmas lights on a timer.

8x10 Quaker shed

Ceiling insulated and Christmas lights installed

Nest boxes are stacking bins from Lowe's. The doggie door is behind them - hard to see in picture.

Roost bar in back, along 10' wall. All the hens sit on it without fussing - so 17 hens. There is actually room for more if I get more hens - they all squish up together and leave big gaps between the groups. Feeder hangs, as does the heated waterer in the winter.

Roost was simple to install before the insulation went in.

Braced the roost with tension wires from the rafters, for a bit more support in the middle.

Nest boxes. Work great!