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(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 16 chickens (all broody 🤣). This coop was a abandoned horse shelter within an old horse pen. Eventually it was turned into...

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...

This is my 1995 Fisher Price Barbie ice cream parlor playhouse. The house measures 48” long x 35” wide x 52” high, inside headroom is about 48” Starting with the base build we purchased: 4 2x4x8 15 feet of 1 inch hardware cloth. Deck screws and washers. 1 4x4 cheap OSB flooring panel. 4 L...

Have you ever wanted to make a chicken coop for your backyard chickens, but you had no idea where to start? Check out these ten inspiring chicken coop projects from the BYC members— all of them were built with recycled materials and elbow grease! It only goes to show that making chicken coops...

When I was a kid, my grandfather had about 30 hens in an enclosed coop (1970's) and supplied the neighbourhood with fresh eggs (for a modest price). When I had kids of my own, was living "in town" and heard them refer to a squirrel as a "wild animal", I thought "Hmmm... these kids need more...

When starting to raise ducks last year we were so inexperienced with everything, that the people at the local farm-store convinced us to spend a fortune for a prefabricated chicken-cube: After our ducks outgrew that little house and i built a large home for them on the duck-platform the house...

This is how we built my chicken coop; I sort of cleared out the shed a bit, then me and dad dug the holes for the posts to make a 2m high fence. the pen will be 12mx6m. Dad concretes 2 of the massive posts into the ground. The 2 front posts are in! We concreted 2 more posts in. Now all 4...

Recycled Material Coop by Dinosaurolophus posted Sep 18, 2017 at 8:52 AM This is a picture of my coop made from recycled materials. I used an old swing set stand for the base and covered the sides with pallet boards. The paint is an old can of deck stain. Its main purpose was for housing...

Hello! I am a mother hen to 6 chickens right now. Last year was our first year in chicken ownership so we had to have a coop. We scoured the internet for free and cheap recycled materials to make a coop. We had a goal in mind of using recycled good and saving money. We found a free kid's...

Don’t laugh I spent $50 on add-ons and less than $10 on the actual coop... Basically, with a handsaw, drill and some free pallets, I managed to bump together a house for my new kiddles. Ignore the piece of wood leaning there. It’s covered in art work by my 10 year old sister. I was worried...

My primary motivation for getting backyard chickens was the inhumane conditions of chicken farms. For years I paid more for eggs from "free-range" and "cage free" chickens thinking I was doing the right thing only to find out those terms didn't mean what I thought. I wanted my eggs to come from...

I told my dad I wanted to get chickens again and could he help me build a coop. He's always been very handy. My only requirement was to spend no money at all, he had to use what we all had laying around our yards. Here is the finished product! I absolutely love it. He listened and didn't spend a...

After much deliberation and review of everything I could, I took the plunge and started a coop for the chicks that are on their way. This coop was designed from a shipping crate and reclaimed lumber with 1 sheet of plywood and a few 2x4s I tried to reconfigure and reuse the available...

UPDATES: As of 2017, my town allows up to 6 chickens per acre. I have scooted the coop over to where the wire run used to be, because my air flow works better in the Summer and Winter. I have wire covered/enclosed another maybe 15' X 32' area on both sides of the greenhouse so the hens can...

This is the chicken coop I built out of a hydraulic water lift that no longer worked and did not meet the current safety standards for it to be maintained. I have never had chickens before so I got the information for things needed buy looking at the commercially available Chicken coops and runs...

In The Beginning: For years I've wanted chickens, but it wasn't until this past winter I found out I could actually own chickens in town. So this is my little thread about what I'm doing and what its costing. To begin with, I wanted to keep the costs of this venture as low as possible. I...

Here are a few pictures from the coop build. I hope you enjoy please feel free to ask any questions and comment. I had a good level spot of ground we had at one time had an above ground pool so it already had a base level of sand as well. Our son He has this coop building down! I stood...

Hopefully this will provide some inspiration for someone. We built this in our back yard in West Auckland. We have 6 chickens. Total cost of this coop was about $150 for the timber and screws. The corrugated iron was given to me from a friend replacing his roof. All other parts were collected...

We don't live in a farm! More like a neighborhood close to downtown with neighbors. We had to make something that wasn't too big, cheap, and followed our city ordinance. We went with a medium sized coop that could fit about 6 chickens. We spent hardly any money at all. We recycled some wood from...

Let me first apologize for my lack of building skills, I am not a carpentar. As you read this post forgive me carpentry mistakes. I hope to show that if I can do this anyone can. 6 months ago my wife mentioned starting a chicken flock in our suburban neighborhood and I told her she'd need a...