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The idea with the slanted walls was that they would give it a nice gypsy-caravan vibe/look. Also, our chickens day range, and mostly use the coop for overnight roosting. This gives them more roosting space, relative to floor space. I need to get over the dread of putting things on youtube. My...

I am not quite sure how to best share the video, actually, so that may come along later.

I got a lot of inspiration from these forums when I was designing my new coop, and I finally (after years of meaning to do it) got around to building it. It is sketchy and amateurish, but it is the first nearly building-sized thing I've built. I'll put the construction photos in this post, and a...

Good to know. I might do some kind of sub-floor with palates on top of it or something. I am also not an expert so this is why I'm here!

Yes, ducks are definitely much messier, but they're charming, right?

Hello! We have about 8 hens and two roosters and are about to get 6 ducklings. The chicken's current coop is gross and falling apart -- I'm not even going to post pictures, it's just OSB and a bad roof with a hardware cloth floor, and it's held together by fading force of habit. We've never had...

For deep litter on dirt, how does rat control go? In a way, this sounds like the best method for us, but I'm sure the rats would find a way in in no time, even with hardware cloth, if there was any wood at all near ground level. Is the base of the wall concrete block? How high up is the...

We'll need a building permit for the woodshed, anyway, and I don't think having a coop incorporated into the structure will make it any more hassle, just a more complicated set of drawings. I think that the rules here are that you need a permit for any sort of permanent structure, regardless of...

Thanks for the replies, and the pictures. Nothing is pristine around here. We do try to keep things from getting squalid, though. I think we would probably keep the coop cleaner if we moved it closer to the house (which this new one would be) but I may be dreaming. The good thing is that we'd...

This is my first post here, and I'm trying to figure out a design for a new coop. All the designs I see for chicken coops show freestanding coops. I'm wondering if there's any overwhelming reason not to incorporate a coop under the same roof as some other things, in our case a garden shed and a...