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  1. 10 Ways to Save Money when Raising Chickens

    10 Ways to Save Money when Raising Chickens

    Introduction Raising chickens can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. While you do need to responsibly care for your poultry, you don’t have to go overboard with cost. Here are 10 areas to save money in when raising chickens. #1. Buying Eggs, Chicks, or Adults When getting chickens, it may...
  2. "Just" a Chicken Coop

    "Just" a Chicken Coop

    I named this article after the motto that emerged for this coop, the thing we said to each other every time we worked on it: "It's just a chicken coop!". Both hubby and I can be a little perfectionist, and we often found ourselves waffling about what would be the *best* thing to do. At those...
  3. Recycling an Old Horse Shelter into a Turkey, Duck & Chicken Coop & Run with Repurposed Materials

    Recycling an Old Horse Shelter into a Turkey, Duck & Chicken Coop & Run with Repurposed Materials

    (This article is still in progress) It all began with adopting a Silkie Rooster, hatching 11 chicks and raising 7 ducks..... now we have a Large Coop, 2 turkeys, ducks and 15 chickens (all broody 🤣). This coop was a abandoned horse shelter within an old horse pen. Eventually it was turned into...
    • Sequoia Raven Bird Farms
    • Article
    • 15 min read
    • building a coop chicken coop coop and run construction country coop duck house large coop large run reuse turkey coop
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Large Coops
  4. Fort Ski- Southeast Louisiana chicken coop/run

    Fort Ski- Southeast Louisiana chicken coop/run

    ...more time staring at the ground or at an uneven corner, wondering what the heck to do next and how… 3. I initially wanted to build a pallet coop but the 10pallets I secured…the wood was so crooked and warped that nothing would square and line up. 4. This project served dual purpose- if I ever...
  5. Project French Cajun Bayou Shack

    Project French Cajun Bayou Shack

    I acquire free wood. Be it pallets, fence, furniture elements; in the alleys, on the Craigslist, friends, roadside, neighbors. I'm not exactly sure what I'll do with it at the time, but man hands gotta handle, and creators gotta create. I originally let my backyard chickens build and...
    • Skatchkins
    • Article
    • 5 min read
    • bayou cajun chicken coop diy free range pallet wood shack tin roof
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Medium Coops
  6. Building a Coop with Recycled Materials: An Environmentally Friendly Approach to Poultry Keeping

    Building a Coop with Recycled Materials: An Environmentally Friendly Approach to Poultry Keeping

    Building a chicken coop is an essential part of keeping poultry on a small scale. However, the process can be quite expensive, especially when using new materials. Fortunately, there are ways to build a coop without breaking the bank or harming the environment. One of the ways to achieve this is...
  7. How to Start a Backyard Chicken Farm During a Recession

    How to Start a Backyard Chicken Farm During a Recession

    Starting a backyard chicken farm can be a great way to save money and provide fresh, healthy food for your family during a recession. Not only can you raise chickens for eggs and meat, but they can also provide manure for your garden and help control pests. However, starting a chicken farm can...
  8. Nuthatchs' Boid House

    Nuthatchs' Boid House

    Nuthatchs' Boid House Greetings, one and all Here's my coop's DIY page, where I attempt to translate my mediocre-at-best sewing skills into "I hope I don't maim myself permanently." carpentry skills. *Please note that the materials guide is approximate for the framing lumber as most of it was...
  9. 4x4x4 for 4

    4x4x4 for 4

    I built this 4x4x4 coop from recycled material, house build leftovers and a few panels from the hardware store. The coop has a main access so I can clean and refresh food and water. The coop sits on a 4x8x 18” screened box with hardware cloth on brick to keep out critters. An additional 4x4x5...
  10. Another Rubbermaid Shed Conversion Coop

    Another Rubbermaid Shed Conversion Coop

    My backyard is sandwiched between a treeline to the east, and my house on the west, so it's very heavily shaded... so much so that even shade tolerant grass barely even grows. After wanting chickens for years, and many of those years spent trying to convince my husband that we NEEDED to move to...
    • Shevraeth
    • Article
    • 7 min read
    • rubbermaid coop shed to coop conversion
    • Category: Member Pages
  11. Pallet CoopMagedon

    Pallet CoopMagedon

    I am one to think outside the box and since I live in a limited fixed income I am always looking for cheap but sturdy ideas. That's why my first coop, when I had 1 rescue chicken was made of an old solid wood cabinet. It was 2ft × 3ft and it worked great for her. This year I enlarged my flock...
    • Melissa67137
    • Article
    • 6 min read
    • diy coop medium coop medium sized coop pallet chicken coop
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: Medium Coops
  12. My Coop

    My Coop

    See my Serama Coop here It's been a while since I posted. I relocated from NH to TN and of course, so did the chickens. I won't bore you with the tale of our 4 day journey south with a camper full of chickens. Or with the 3 hour wait for a tow truck on a rainy Sunday morning on a highway...
  13. The Chicken Wing

    The Chicken Wing

    I have wanted chickens for 20 years but never had a real opportunity until my husband and I built our empty nest home in a rural Michigan wooded area two years ago. Our winters are long and cold, summers are warm and humid with no shortage of deer ticks and biting flies. The coop location is...
  14. Tar Paper Shack Pallet Coop

    Tar Paper Shack Pallet Coop

    ...by fall, but it was still several months away. So any potential new babies we got would need a temporary house of their own, enter the pallet coop. Hubby removing the middle pallets to create a walk-in coop. He might roll his eyes at me a lot, but he always ends up making my dreams a...
  15. Pallet chicken house

    Pallet chicken house

    We needed to move our coop for a new septic system. My husband has access to free pallets at work so we started from there to build our open air style coop. My chickens free range so a run isn't really needed for us. To start I got some cinder blocks leveled to place the pallets on top of. This...
  16. The Journey of Chicken Keeping - No Experience Necessary! (But Lots of Research Required!)

    The Journey of Chicken Keeping - No Experience Necessary! (But Lots of Research Required!)

    ...and we may even keep arooster or two at the farm! Unless we find a sturdy, good sized, affordable coop, I will be trying my hands at pallet coop building. I am writing this article to let others out there know, you don’t have to be an expert, or have any experience at all, to keep and...
  17. Integrating with a small coop and run

    Integrating with a small coop and run

    DISCLAIMER * This is from my own personal experience and how I did it* Late August 2021 I decided I wanted to expand my flock of 3 before the cold weather hit New Jersey. I decided I was only going to get 2 new chicks and went with a Buff Orpington and an Easter Egger. We bought them home and...
  18. Top 15 Chicken Coop Mistakes

    Top 15 Chicken Coop Mistakes

    ...to a brooder and construct your own coop out of recycled materials such as pallets. This is a great article showing lots of different pallet coops at a low cost. Maybe you made your coop out of cheap material like plywood, adding sheet metal to the outside can be helpful. Sheet...
  19. The Chookie McMansion

    The Chookie McMansion

    Take the video tour here or read on for the full story... The Prequel - This is the story of the Little Coop That Grew. Once upon a time, there was a girl and a boy who decided they wanted a couple of chooks (that’s Australian for “chickens”). They were trying to live a contented, organic life...
  20. Heathen Haven Homestead Coop from Scrap Material

    Heathen Haven Homestead Coop from Scrap Material

    Hey everyone! This is our first ever chicken coop! I went through so many ideas and designs and then we just threw all those ideas in a big pot, cooked it, burnt it and started all over from scratch with a limited idea of what we really wanted and just kept building like legos! I wanted a big...
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