chicken coop

  1. The Chick Inn

    The Chick Inn

    Design Since my wife and I moved into our fixer home we knew we wanted chickens but building a chicken coop ended up a ways down the initial priority list of projects. As far as a coop design, I had a general idea of what I wanted out of a coop but it wasn’t until I found BackYardChickens.com...
    • Sussex7
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    • Category: Medium Coops
  2. H

    My Introduction!! :)

    Hello!!!! I am very excited to get involved in these threads and get acclimated with this new scene! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? - We are new to chickens! We have not gotten any yet, we are currently in the process of planning out our coop and...
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  8. Ben's Small Chicken Coop

    Ben's Small Chicken Coop

    This coop was bought second hand in bad condition: I have sinced fixed/cleaned it and have added my own little tweaks. Here is the new coop! Features: 3 nesting box's, a gas strut, A roosting bar (soon to be maybe another), Chicken run, And also Kiwi laying her egg for today. (WILL...
    • ben0125
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    • Category: Small Coops
  9. Star and eclipsa

    Need chicken coop!

    Is there anyone in florida with any scrap wood left over from when you built your coop, or know where I can find any scrap wood for free? I really need a coop for my two chickens, because my older sister is moving back in and she says the chickens need to go outside. Maybe you guys know someone...
  10. Storage-Box chick brooder

    Storage-Box chick brooder

    I made this chick brooder from simply: x4 zip ties A large storage box A small amount of chicken wire. It can easily be accessed I will soon use it for 2 Hyline chicks with an eco-glow 20 heat plate
    • ben0125
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    • Category: Incubators & Brooders
  11. ourgirlsonmars

    Life with the "girls" on Mars

    We have been raising chickens for 8 years now here in North Carolina. Our oldest, original girl, is 8 years old. We were originally told that we had "mostly hens" when we obtained our 14 chickens from a local farmer. Well we found out that we had 9 roosters! One of our favorite roosters we...
  12. Sunshine Flock

    Crunching numbers for adequate ventilation

    No tail between my legs here. For all the time I spend in the forums, there are lots of things I'm still needing to iron out, and one is chicken coop ventilation. I converted an old shed to a chicken coop. The interior floor space is approximately 33' square, and I have five Welsummer hens and...
  13. Smuvers Farm

    Smuvers 1st CP (Cattle Panel) Coop

    I will TRY to post a cost analysis along with the photos however, YMMV because we had some of the materials already. It was really amazing to myself and DH at how easily this thing came together! Cutting down 2 boards to an 8ft. length. 8ft x 8ft frame. 2 cattle panels...
  14. slimak_14

    Winter advice?

    I'm still reading through the topic in the forum on winter advice for a newbie. From everything i've read so far birds are pretty hardy and if you don't give them heat they will acclimatize to the cold. We live in Poland (think climate like Canada), but our city is a bit of a microclimate and...
  15. Wise Woman

    I am getting a custom built coop!

    Oh my stars! My husband hired two guys to build me a new chicken coop to my design and specifications. I hardly know how to act. They are out there building it as I type this. I have been waiting for years for a new coop and thought I would be lucky to get whatever my husband decided to...
  16. Sunshine Flock

    Do you decorate your chicken coop for Christmas?

    I'd love to see photos of your chicken coop decorated for Christmas. I'm not going to string lights that could interfere with their roosting, but I do look forward to making a wreath for the door on the front of the coop and the door to the run. Stockings hung outside would be really cute...
  17. Sunshine Flock

    Recent example of why you shouldn't use heat lamps in the chicken coop

    I thought I read somewhere that you can't post direct links to social media, but I'm not seeing it in the terms and conditions. Please let me know if this isn't allowed. This photo is heartbreaking. She lost her flock of eight chickens to a heat lamp fire that destroyed everything. I'm guessing...
  18. Sunshine Flock

    Chicken coop roof, overhang and construction methods

    I don't have photos to show you for now, but maybe soon. I converted an old shed into a chicken coop. The interior is 4' deep and 7' wide with a sloping roof. The roof is taller on the front where the people door is located, and slopes down toward the back, where the chicken door was installed...
  19. Sunshine Flock

    Recommendations on window covers for the chicken coop

    I'm kind of stumped. I converted an old shed into a chicken coop, but I got stuck on some of the details, and with a really long, hot summer and other things that came up, I couldn't decide what to do for the window covers at night. I've been using old boards I hang on nails and secure tight...
  20. Featherdust Flock: Retrofit Shed Coop

    Featherdust Flock: Retrofit Shed Coop

    INTRODUCTION When we first got into chickens, we built a medium/small coop from scratch, after much research. Experience has a way of teaching that no research can quite match, so after almost seven years with the smaller coop, I had a vision for a new, larger coop, with improvements in mind...
    • Nambroth
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Large Coops
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