Articles by Yakisugi Coop
When we adopted our chickens, I didn’t want to build them a new coop. I hadn’t made anything out of wood since grade 8 woodworking class and I had no ambition to change that. But the coop they came with wasn’t ideal and I couldn’t find an easy solution. The only pre-made coops we liked ran well...
I built this modular coop, which comes apart into four pieces, this spring to serve many functions:
(1) As a stand-alone small coop to quarantine new or sick birds or as a jail for bullies:
(2) As a run extension that creates more covered, secure space when we have to keep the birds locked...