Please, everyone post pictures of your shabby and chic coops here

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I not sure that this is quite 'chic' but it is sort of decked out for the up coming fall holidays nonetheless. A continuing work in progress, but a most fun and rewarding adventure. This is the winter banty coop, the large fowl have there own abode. I'll have to get some pictures of it, an original 1925 12 x 20 coop my grandfather built on the place. I've redone the inside and it is in very good condition, it has a cement floor and is white as well.

Some interesting buildings here in this thread, many not too shabby and a few chic.

Best to all and your birds,

RJ

We live in the outskirts of Fairbanks Alaska where we see temperatures of -40 below.
My husband built this over the summer we insulated it very well.
Due to some of the storms here we lose power so we have a backup heating system that runs off of propane. Most of time we use heating lamps and regular light bulbs for heat and light.
Hubby is going to be making some changes to the inside will update as he completes it.

I am tall and so is my wife so we wanted to be able to stand up inside. and also that high wall is going to have a shelf for me to store straw bales and their other stuff and keep it off the ground.{Quote}

If you plan to store straw where the chickens are, remember most can fly fairly high and will roost or perch on the bales and poop all over them. I keep everything I have to handle outside the chicken area to keep it clean. My new coop has a work/storage area for that purpose. It also has facilities for butchering which I tested on my 3 roosters that got out of hand. Not everyone can have a large area for this but I built on to the back of my barn with that very purpose in mind and roughly another 9x30 space for expansion. (That is supposed to be a green house for my wife's Texas fruit trees which we now have in the house

Here is my structure in progress. You can see how it all started. The door on the left is my work area and also has a barn entrance I put in later. The right door is to the coop area and how they get in and out for ranging. Its a storm door I had in the barn for about 5 years and I just set the closer stop to keep it open. I'm going to design an auto chicken door soon. The back wall is 12 feet. Tall enough for you?

gpeters3 said:

Its a storm door I had in the barn for about 5 years and I just set the closer stop to keep it open. I'm going to design an auto chicken door soon.

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Came home tonight after dark and my birds were not in the coop.....because it was windy and my storm door closer broke again and the door slammed shut so they couldn't get in. Fortunately I have a junk pile next to the coop for them to evade predators (except weasels) and i got them all back in. I think its time to design a wind proof chicken door.

The sign on the fence is a Circle K (gas station) metal sign. The tornado that came through on April 22 2011 deposited that in my yard.

It was literally stuck about 1/4 of the way into the earth.

My previous chicken coop I made myself was destroyed that day (all the chickens survived).

Therefore because of time constraints (had to get the chickens shelter) and the fact that I had a huge mess in my yard and had to get my house back in order (over 40K in damage) I took the money the insurance company gave me for my old coop and bought a shed from Tuff Shed. I was shocked at what they paid me. They measured it rated my coop as "high quality material" and told me if I wanted to go buy one of the same size etc. and they would reimburse me for it and they did, every penny.

They actually customized it for me with the chicken pop door, extra windows and the smaller door etc.

One day I am going to replace the door with a wood door with the same material I made the gate with to give it more "chicken" look.

I built it outa an old shipping crate, some landscape timbers,& some old chicken wire I had layn around