large-coops

Welcome to my chicken coop. Coop is located in Latvia, so winters here my be freezing. That's why I have to built it insulated. Coop size is 13' x 9' (4m x 3m). 1/4 for storage, 3/4 for chickens. I moved to countryside only a year ago and idea about chickens I dreamt about half a year earlier...

MN-Hardy Chicken Coop and Run On April 25, 2015 my husband and I packed up our kids and our dog (she travels with us wherever we go) and drove to pick up our very first 1-2 day old chicks. We had waited close to three years after moving into our current house before deciding that this was the...

IN PROGRESS I started by getting 6 chicks before the coop last year , was easier to get Hubby accustomed to the idea that way. Then I built a hoop coop when they outgrew the plastic tub & I had gotten more chicks due to visits to farmers stores too often. We ended up buying an already made...

Here's a picture of our first coop. In this picture we hadn't put the doors on the left side that opened to the nest boxes. We didn't want to put the nest boxes in too soon so that they wouldn't roost in them. Here's what the nest box door and nests look like with curtains that I made and...

Just added this simple place for them to bed down. Anyone can build this!!! I'm 75 and not a carpenter. I built this by myself. I also built the open air guinea coop, by myself. The geese coop at this moment is only 8' wide by 10' long and the sides art 5' in height. The ridge beam is 6' high...

Well the girls are bigger now and they have out grown there old coop. It was a old rabbit hutch that I had upgraded to a small coop . As you can see we had a dog pen that I had section off , Half for dogs (they sit by the door) the other for chickens. When I noticed two out of the six chickens...

We aren't the kind of people who can just drop a couple thousand dollars on a new coop. But never fear! When we bought our new micro-farm, it came with THIS! Even more exciting, this aesthetically noxious, junky shed was filled to the gills with more junk! But if you know me, you know that...

We live in a country sub-division in Northwestern Ohio known as Adams Acres . I grew up on a small farm-- we didn't raise crops but we dappled in all sorts of animals from kittens and puppies to livestock-- goats, lambs, rabbits, pigs, cattle and a few chickens. Naturally, you can take the...

We started this project with significant disagreement regarding “how big” & “how many”. She wanted 10 chickens with room for more and I wanted 4 in a 3’x4’ hut on 4x4 posts. After months of research and review of dozens of designs, we came to the finite conclusion that we still disagreed...

Welcome to my coop page!! After much procrastination and thought I have finally decided to make a coop page. My coop is a remodeled 16x8 barn shed, the kind that you get from the home improvement store. The shed is about 15 years old and when I started it had for sure seen better days. It was...

Well, after a couple months of work I finally got the coop "Chicken Ready" and moved the chicks in a couple days ago. It turned into a much bigger project than I had anticipated when deciding to build rather than buy a kit. This was the first thing I had built anywhere near this complicated...

I only wish I had taken more pictures during construction. My name is Dave. My wife, myself & 2 children live in Southern New Jersey. I am permanently disabled due to many health issues, but I'm the kind of person that has to keep busy. I have numerous friends that have chickens and I thought it...

My wife and I began talking about chicken husbandry about a year ago and then attended a local seminar put on by our Extension Service this past February. Things just snowballed from there (with lots of reference to "BackyardChckens") as the final decision was made to jump into preparation...

Our coops are actually quite old.. built by my family in the late 1960's. They were all built using plans from a correspondence course on poultry through a university. We have three identical coops. All of my pictures are of the one we just painted (a fresh coat of paint looks so nice!), and the...

Our finished Barn If we could do things differently (we still can adjust a few elements) Locks and handles inside and outside all doors Wish we had of had them install the brooder lower, so the top was easier to clean out. Made the breeding pens in the hallway with dirt flooring. The cement...

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If you asked me even a year ago if I would ever own chickens, I would probably look at you funny and say "No, I doubt it..." My girlfriend and I came to own chickens when the house we bought had existing outbuildings, and one of them had been used to raise bantam roosters for show in the past...

MoonShadows Farm Chicken Coop and Run Our coop is 10' x 8' with 6' 6" walls and a gabled roof. It was framed using standard dimensional lumber and sheathed with rough cut eastern yellow pine boards of varying widths. The floor joists are constructed of 2 x 6's, rest on cinder block piers and...

Loopy Coop is just reference to the children's book we have called 'The Loopy Coop Hens'. My husband calls it the chicken palace but that name was already taken. The idea for this coop was taken from a couple others on BYC but slightly enlarged as well as a design I had seen somewhere else...