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...
Covered Wagon 3 ft tall x 2 ft wide x 4 ft long 2 nest boxes, fair weather perch, entry gate,free range,organic,mobile
Chik'n Hut total length 10 ft with run installed
Hutch with 2 Stalls, cage is 38" Tall x 38"Wide x 6 ft long on legs for benefit of the keeper
The Fort Rox Coop
Munchkin Mountain, Ohio
It all began when I decided that having a few chickens around our place would be a fun and worthwhile project, for myself and our family. It would teach the kids responsibility and provide a great food source for our family. It wouldn't...
Setting the corner posts. Plenty of headroom for me (6'-0")
Starting to frame the roof for the run. The coop will be part of the existing garden shed.
The run roof all framed up. Using Vinyl roof panels so there is bracing every 2ft.
The run framing complete. We then dug down and...
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I'll fill in all the details in a bit.. basically we used a 2 X 4 X 10 for each of the ends and...
I think this is an original design. I have been looking at these pages for months and have not seen one like it. It started ot to be like the Witchata Cabin Coop, but then evolved to be 4'x4' to just use 2 sheets of siding. All of the sudden we had version 3.0 that was bigger and looked nicer...
The Pink Place
I've really needed to build a new coop lately, since we've acquired more hens and it got quite cold for a little while (I know they are fine out there but I just feel bad ), and then lastly, the coop we have now is extremely hard to collect eggs from, unnecessarily hard...
We started building the new coop! Its a 6x3 tractor with a slanted tin roof and coop with nesting boxes and a roost. So excited!! Here are the plans:
After cutting the major pieces and starting to notch all the lap joints... plus a close up of the notches.
This is a close up of the lap joint...