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After reading some Self-Sufficiency books and surfing the Internet I got bit by the chicken bug. We decided to order from a hatchery and I started dreaming of building a coop. As a family on a budget, we knew we would need to do this on the cheap and we are renters, so we had to make sure that...

I moved to the city four years ago, after growing up in a small, rural town. I liked living close to work, but I hated the lack of "country" life. The place we had our horses had chickens, and I often mused about building a coop to freak out the neighbors in the city. Most of these people...

Not quite finished but here it is: We first bought chickens 3 years ago from TSC. I looked for coop designs and came up with a nice one that worked great for us and our 5 new chicks. Well, as you know, you can't stop once you start..so I decided to add some Silkies and we added an...

We're working on a coop - not ready for chickens, obviously, but in process. We've tried to use the advice we've gotten from here and there, which has been an interesting process since the one thing most of the people we've talked to agree on is that they don't agree! Here is what we have so...

The mostly finished coop and run. I initially made all kinds of plans and drawings of how I wanted to build this coop and as it turns out I didn't follow any of them. I took a lot of advice from this website. I let the yard decide how big to build it. It had to fit between various trees...

When I first decided to build a coop for my future chickens I knew that I needed to do it as cheap as possible. Our original plan was to house about a dozen hens, and then about a dozen meat chickens. I knew that I did not want them to be in the same coop, so we began knowing that we would need...

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Coos Bay Backyard Chicken Dreams By Godzilla1916 (Bryan Duggan) Here at the Coos Watershed Sustainables, we are committed to building our capacity to grow our own food, and part of that process is the symbiotic relationship we are developing with a fine group of avian hens........ Here is the...

My Little Coop My little coop is going into my little side yard and so the size was limited by the space we have. I designed the coop and my husband (bless him!) took them and worked from there. Our plans changed as we went along due to several reasons and of course we realized that the...

CACKLEBERRY CABIN (A Shipping Crate Coop) I had wanted chickens for a long time - and when my husband finally relented, I was thrilled and immediately began checking out Craigslist. I found a used, 3rd-generation hoop coop for $175 (A Bargain!!) and we immediately rented a trailer and hauled...

Chickadoodle Heights A year ago my partner and I moved to our new dream home in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. When viewing the house one of the first things I saw was the garden and I fell in love! It also had bedrooms etc. but really the garden was what sold it :) So having moved in...

THE DEATHSTAR TURKEN COOP This coop and run were made entirely from old pallets, old roofing, and leftover wire. Broken down and recycled into a luxury ranch for the Turken Hens and the Emperor Blue Silkie Roo. Total cost: $8.00 and 8 hours. Sorry there were no plans for this. I just made the...

Here is a run down of how we built our coop. My husband did a fabulous job and we are very happy with the design. The ideas for the design were gathered from other users of this site and altered to meet our specifications. When building this chicken coop and adjacent locker / garden on top of...

This is my recycled coop. The materials we used was either something we were no longer using any more(rabbit hutch), Left over chicken wire from another project, and the "coop" was from a neighbor up the road who was going to throw it out due to the dog chewed on it a little and the front...

My coop/poultry barn is built almost entirely of recycled materials. It is not very pretty but it is functional. The base is a heavy oak shipping pallet, the frame is 2X4s and 4X4s from our old pool deck, the siding is flakeboard from shipping pallets, the doors are from scrap lumbers, the nest...

Our Chicken Coop Build Welcome from little Cedaredge, Colorado. After multiple weeks of work the coop is finished and the chickens have moved in. It turned into a much bigger and more drawn out project than I anticipated but I am happy with the finished product. It is 4'x7' (weird size I know...

StrayMagnet Ann's Porch-Coop THIS IS FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE A PORCH LIKE MINE THAT CAN BE EASILY CONVERTED INTO A CHICKEN COOP, OR MABEY EVEN A PEN FOR SOME OTHER SMALL ANIMAL. Here is a great way to make good with Exzisting Items you have laying around, When a Stray chicken showed up at our...

Budget Florida Coops for 3-10 chickens We're definitely budget folks. And luckily for us, the right (free) materials materialized at just the right time to get us going. First off, we had three chickens in a small A-frame tractor type coop we built in an evening. Most was made out of...

My husband and son built this coop entirely from recycled wood and recycled "stuff". They bought one concrete block (they already had the others needed to support the floor) and the screws and nails. The roof was leftover from our house shingles...when we had our roof replaced from Hurricane...