The Ugliest Coop on BYC - My $13.00 coop
by Southernbelle
UPDATE: Fall 2010 - coop renovations below
When we moved to this house we had a few outbuildings and this one was furthest from the house - about 100 yards from the back door. DH initially stored his boat under the overhang, but we...
Half Monitor Chicken Coop from the 1920's re(hatched)born to create sustainable hen house for the early 2000's
Having grown up in the Midwest on a farm, visiting Grandma's and helping her collect eggs, my idea of a chicken house was the Half Monitor or Sawtooth house that was the rage in the...
My Aviary.
Design and Planning
I started planning my Aviary about two weeks ago when I first discovered the group. For the most part it has not been much more than looking around. finding out what I needed for my birds of choice (Grey Jungle Fowl) and coming up with an idea that would fit the...
Here is the coop i made it is a 36' by 12' it is split in 3 pens 12' by 12
i'll like to keep blrw and glw and orps some day,when i find a good stock.
also i'm going to stucco the outside walls but i'm still thinking of what kind of finish.i got a lot to chose from, but for now here are some...
Hello there and thanks so much for visiting my page...
I call it their coop kennel - each section is 5'x8' deep, each has there on huddle house and are allowed to run when it is their turn - if interested here is the link for the full coop details...
Our Large Chicken Coop
This pic is one of the back with my daughter posing. As you can see we ran the 2x4's like a barn instead of like normal wall studs. The reason we did this is we got a good deal on some rough cut oak, and we ran them horizontal. It actually took less 2x4's this way and...
The coop adventure begins....
After living for a 4 by 8 "playhouse" style coop for a year, and spending too much time on BYC, I was more than ready to upgrade to a larger, "walk-in" style coop. I started with a shed kit, built the foundation/floor, then got fed up with the kit.
The platform sat...
Hen Haven
Southern Style
Hi and welcome to our page. Hope you like the new coop we built. It took several months to complete due to trips out of town, work schedule and arrival of new chicks having me scramble to build temporary housing for them, taking me away from finishing...
chickn's Coop
This is the old breeder coop, we built this first. It has 3 pens on the left that have attached runs and 3 pens on top that we use for a brooder.
The other side has 4 pens with outdoor runs and the top 4 cages we use for hens when they hatch chicks to seperate them out of the...
MY NEW CHICKEN COOP
My name is Chrissy, I live in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia and have kept Chooks, Geese, Turkeys , Cows, Calves , Sheep, 2 Goats, Raised Wombats and Kangaroos to return to the wild and a Horse for a period of 20 years on and off since moving to a rural area from the...
Everytime I go by a old farmstead, I like to look at the old buildings and see the uniqueness of each. When I first decided to get chickens, the first thing you think of is what kind of coop will I need. I started looking through the internet and found the one currently in my avatar and thought...
My New Coop
I started with an old run-in shed that was previously used for the horses.
I attached 4x4's at the base to work off. Found left-over Blue Stone for walkway.
Purchased a door, 2 windows and some 2x4's from a re-store that deconstructs houses and resells the material...
BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY BABES
Here are a few pictures of our COOP. I realize I went a little overboard, but if we ever decide to not have hens, we will have a nice garden shed. I am not much of a builder nor did I have any plans/blueprints to build this. I just started building. I can say the wife...
The Breakfast Box
We own 3 acres and have dreamed of being farmers, so we started out a couple of years ago with a vegetable garden (which has grown in size every year). Since we don't have a whole lot of land I talked to my husband about getting some chickens for eggs...His response, "No way...
Chicken Mansion
Well, I guess it really isn’t a mansion but it is too cool to just be called a chicken house. I know I put enough work into it for it to be called a chicken mansion.
This is the start to the mansion. I’ve never built anything on my own before so I had to get a lot of...
This is my new coop that I finished this fall. I bought this building and moved it to my property.
It has 4 pens. I have one pen of Delewares, 2 banty pens ( silky and Frizzle) and a pen of Americanas. I also use the front portion for chicken feed storage on one side, and garden storage on...
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While contemplating building another coop, I looked over at the, "boat shed."
It is 33 ft long, and 13 ft wide. I was imagining the possibilities.
My dear husband agreed to let me use the...
Taj McCluck
The "v" shaped thing was part of a temporary fence made to grow grass in the run. Notice the turbine vent on the roof. It works with the two gable vents and two full-length soffit vents to provide 6 sq ft total full-time ventilation for the coop. Windows and pop doors provide...
Welcome to the Coop Library!
We decided early on that chickens, especially Literary Ladies and Bookish Boys, deserve adventures and grass- two things they just can’t get stuck in a stationary coop. To that end, we designed a traveling home for these oh-so-special birds. So now, when the chickies...
The Building of my Coop!
My first coop was one I found free on Craigslist. While it was a marvelous coop for my first one, after a few months of using it I quickly found out that it wasn't meeting all of my needs. Here's a picture of the little A-Frame for reference:
Pic Disclaimer: I did...