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My wife and I constructed this coop outside our Colorado home in spring 2013. We started with the well known Purina Mills Hen House design and worked from there. Like most folks we wanted to keep things as inexpensive as possible, while still not sacrificing functionality, durability, and...

My husband had to build two chicken coops for me because we live in the mountains of Upstate SC half the time and in the midlands the other half. We scavenged, salvaged, begged, and bought the materials as we learned about chicken math. Coop # 1 was assembled in our midlands backyard then...

I decided that rather than drop $400 for a small coop at our local feed store, I would take advantage of the many construction dumpsters in our neighborhood and build this coop for as little mullah as possible. The total cost for parts ended up being around $75 for our 4x4 coop (2 sheets of...

Starting with the kids' old playhouse, we are slowly (very slowly!!) fixing it and the addition to it into a habitable place for the chickens. We started with 17 chickens (2 roos) and now have 11 hens and 1 roo. The playhouse was too small for anything but sleeping at that time. So now, even...

Fate has a way of changing your path when you least expect it and such was the case for me in 2012. In November I moved to a new home for the second time that year and found myself without chickens. I missed them quite a bit and by March of 2013 I was scanning Craigslist for chickens - any...

Firstly we would like to say that this coop was a hybrid of many ideas from many other designs and we just took what we liked and ended up with Henlop. We would like to make a special thanks to Brounii's CCC coup as if not for their ideas we would still be going UMM UMM UMMMMMM. Most of the...

So our chicken house was built with the intent on 4-6 birds living in it. My children got free "roosters" for 4-H My younger son thought he also needed some so we bought 4 hens for him, hoping that after the fair the rooster would be gone. Well somebody made a miske and we ended up with 14 hens...

My daughter and I built this coop for her Coturnix quail from an entertainment center someone put out for trash pickup down the street (columns), and an old door (roof). It's on wheels so it can be moved around easily. We wanted to save money on hinges and door hardware, so we came up with the...

Also Known As Cheap-as-free Scrap Built Meat Chicken or Pullet Grow-Out Suburban Wax-Box Tractor! Whew! Okay, well, there's likely better ways to do this, but this was my solution for raising my meaties on NO budget (other than feed budget). I made it out of exclusively things I already had...

My boyfriend has been wanting to do backyard chickens for a couple years. This year he finally decided it was time and got three baby chicks in March. They were in a box on the dryer with a light hanging over them for the first few weeks then moved to a larger box in the front room. As April...

Well This is my second coop building adventure and i decided to build this one with as much re-useable material as possible. We had lots of scrap lumber left over from our other coop build project and a few sheets of plywood too, so I decided to put them all to some good use while building this...

Originally, I wanted to build my own brooder for out in the barn so that I wouldn't have to borrow a neighbor’s anymore. Three cats & three dogs at home - and me at work all day made the idea of brooding in the house a no-go. Last year I borrowed one that was essentially a big, long box on...

This started out as a simple coop made from salvaged materials from around my home and a few items purchased from my local Habitat Re-Store. It's my first attempt at a coop and like many others, there are several things that I would have done differently but it is what it is and has gone...

I built this coop as a secondary coop to grow out some of my younger birds till they get large enough to go with the big girls. I started with a wooden shipping Crate. It has room for 4 full sized birds and has an attached 6' run' I built the entire coop out of recycled materials. The only...

Describe 'Macclesfield Poultry Palace' here What started out with my wife loving silkies and the joy they bring our love for the feathered friends has grown. Yes i know have my own girls (working girls) and my wife has her show girls. Thus the poultry palace was need to house the new girls. A...

Churk Central: A pallet coop built and dedicated to the memory of out first chicken (Churkey) Earlier this year, after free ranging a dozen chickens over the past six years, we had our first real predator event. A male red fox decimated almost our entire population of chickens, including our...

You may want to ask the hubs before you barrow all his tools and scraps. I was given free rains to the tools and materials. ;) This is a 1 day project. If you paint the frame first, 2 days. I have a batch of chicks that will need houseing untill they are large enough to add to our current...

I first acquired two young pullets in April 2010 while in the process of remodeling our kitchen. The first coop for Lucy and Ethel was a small base cabinet demo'ed from the old kitchen that my son and I hobbled together in an afternoon to accommodate the new girls. They happily lived in it for...

This is what we started with The walls Floor We had to cut the walls to fit and to create the slant for runoff Building the nesting boxes We are trying to recycle EVERYTHING and getting some things given to us With the economy the way it is right now I know alot of you like...

Pictures of my 20x20 Araucana coop. Only have Pure Breed Araucana's living in it. Coop was mainly built out of recycled wood and fence from Craigslist. The tin and 4x4's were purchased new and a few hinges and hangers. Laying boxes where purchase off Craigslist also. Wish I had purchased...