This is my first actual coop. I built this myself. (My husband helped with the run).
I am currently about to expand to a walk in coop- you live and you learn, right? I did NOT think the cleaning part through with this design, and it KILLS my back when I clean it out.
Also going to expand my run, because well, chicken math happened.
I started off with 4 chickens 6 years ago.
It was just the 4 of them for 4 years. Then we moved onto 7 acres and a friend of mine hatched some BYM babies, so I got 4 more. Then I learned about Olive Eggers and Chocolate layers, so I got some of them too.
Then I wanted to breed my own so I got some Cream Legbars and some more Olive Eggers, and while I was picking up my MarBar Olive eggers last fall, I saw the man had some Mille Fleur D'Uccle bantams, so the next weekend we went back and got 5 of them. Now here I am, what started off as 4 chickens has turned into 27 chickens, 2 turkeys, 21 ducks, a Highland bull, 2 Zebu cows and a donkey
Anyhow, here is my cute cozy little coop:
I'd wrapped it for the cold weather, to block the winds. It doesn't always have shower curtain liners wrapped around it lol
This is the inside of the run, and my nesting box area:
It has served its purpose for my girls, but I'm ready to get my OE project going and choose which 2 roosters of my 5 I'm gonna pull from my bachelor flock, then expand everything and have one chicken pen!
Thanks for taking a peep at my little coop
I am currently about to expand to a walk in coop- you live and you learn, right? I did NOT think the cleaning part through with this design, and it KILLS my back when I clean it out.
Also going to expand my run, because well, chicken math happened.
I started off with 4 chickens 6 years ago.
It was just the 4 of them for 4 years. Then we moved onto 7 acres and a friend of mine hatched some BYM babies, so I got 4 more. Then I learned about Olive Eggers and Chocolate layers, so I got some of them too.
Then I wanted to breed my own so I got some Cream Legbars and some more Olive Eggers, and while I was picking up my MarBar Olive eggers last fall, I saw the man had some Mille Fleur D'Uccle bantams, so the next weekend we went back and got 5 of them. Now here I am, what started off as 4 chickens has turned into 27 chickens, 2 turkeys, 21 ducks, a Highland bull, 2 Zebu cows and a donkey
Anyhow, here is my cute cozy little coop:
I'd wrapped it for the cold weather, to block the winds. It doesn't always have shower curtain liners wrapped around it lol
This is the inside of the run, and my nesting box area:
It has served its purpose for my girls, but I'm ready to get my OE project going and choose which 2 roosters of my 5 I'm gonna pull from my bachelor flock, then expand everything and have one chicken pen!
Thanks for taking a peep at my little coop
