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No, I bought it from a cast iron company in England and had it shipped over. It really is just for decoration, but we have a daycare at our house, so the kids like that the chickens have a “people house”. :p

I've added my stained window box and trellis to the coop! Come spring, the coop will be getting two large gable vents on both sides of it to add even more ventilation. I will also be adding flower beds in the front and this post box I had made in England. I want to mount it on a granite post and...

The worst part is that when we went to look at the coop the first time, they were there (and rotten), and we asked that they get rid of them, but when we came back a month later to get it ready to go, they were still there.

My coop walls are already insulated with a combination of fibreglass and foam board insulation. We had lots of insulation left over from when we insulated our new shed/workshop so we could heat it. We didn't buy any insulation for the coop, and the only reason we insulated it was because we had...

I'm not sure if honeysuckle will grow in my climate zone... I know of some good native vines up here, but I need to make sure they're non-toxic.

I'll be sure to do some research before I plant!

This is the trellis that I've bought for the side of my coop today! I'm thinking of planting morning glories on it next year.

Yes, exactly.

So you would recommend that I add gable vents? I was thinking of cutting the first ~4 inches or so off of the side walls and covering them with hardware cloth.

Yes, the are pretty small. They're only about two inches wide. I'm still looking for a solution on how to venilate more, given how small my soffits are. My carpenter also put insulation on the inside of the roof, but fortunately, it was just foam board, and I've taken it down. I've read that I...

I'm still trying to add a bit more. I have both of my soffits open with a ridge vent on top, but I want to add a few more square feet somewhere of permanent ventilation. I was thinking for next summer, I will put the window on hinges, but that's only for summer ventilation and not permanent...

I also have tons of pictures of the construction process, so if anyone wants to see them or has questions, feel free to ask!

Also, my favourite part of the coop! This is the door I had custom made. I found a stained glass panel for about $25 on eBay, and then I had the door custom made to fit the panel. I got the idea after I saw a picture of an interior door someone had with a big stained glass rooster. The carpenter...

This is the inside of my coop as it is currently, and an older picture of the new yard. The coop has changed since, but the yard hasn't. It's a 10'x10' chainlink yard sitting on a cinderblock foundation with hardware cloth over it completely. Under the soil in the yard, about a foot down, The...

This is the coop and yard before I started work on it. I got the coop from Plymouth, MA, which is about 70 miles away from me. The pictures of the coop are from when it was still in Plymouth. I had it delivered. Note the ~200 rotten eggs the old owner left in the coop. I had to clean out...

This is my coop as it stands today. It still needs garden beds, its window box installed (it's almost done being painted) and I have a plastic grating that I want to install in the yard onto which I can put their water. The ducks splash it out all the time, so I want to have a pit beneath it to...

Hi! I figured I'd post the pictures of my new coop that we've been making since July. I wanted to combine my ducks, bantams and big hens into one bigger coop. It's been quite the upgrade, and lots of research has been done. They had a 4'x4' coop with a 6'x8' run, but now they have a 7.3'x7.8'...