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  1. Hevelands Henhouse

    Hevelands Henhouse

    Our Hen House Inside Our Layers The owners of Hevelands Henhouse The perks of a Backyard flock Have you ever wondered "What came first the chicken or the egg?" Look it up in the good book --- Genesis 1:10-20 According to the bible, the chicken came first: "And the evening...
  2. Bockbock2008s Chicken Coop

    Bockbock2008s Chicken Coop

    This is my chicken coop. I built it all by myself except for the roof. I used old barn wood that I had brought home a couple years ago and old storm windows that someone had set out for trash pickup. With the storm windows, I also picked up all of the wood that I needed for framing. I bought...
  3. Building The Layers Coop

    Building The Layers Coop

    Building the Layers Coop: I didn't get photos of the framing, but here we go from there: Size is 12' x 16'. Door is 4' x 8'. Windows recycled (3). I painted inside and out with Valspar brand (oil glossy) porch paint. ... Here are more recent pictures. Still lots to do. The roof is going...
  4. Ace Coop Progress Pictures Included

    Ace Coop Progress Pictures Included

    The idea of getting some chickens started to get tossed around last fall. We had just bought a house with 4 acres and thought chickens would be a lot of fun to have around. Not to mention having fresh eggs. When winter started my husband starting clearing some of our land for a garden. With in a...
  5. Ranchosoledads Chicken Coop

    Ranchosoledads Chicken Coop

    Rancho Soledad Alpine, CA 17 acres in the chaparral covered hills outside of San Diego, CA. Me, hubby, 3 indoor cats, 2 outdoor cats, 2 dogs, koi, and now chickens! This page is dedicated to our wonderful burro we had for 10 years, George. We miss you. After starting to buy fresh eggs at...
  6. Sues First Chicken Coop

    Sues First Chicken Coop

    Sue's First Chicken Coop Hiya, Here is our first coop. My hubby built it using an 8x10 shed we bought at home depot. Also a pic of our new and very first chickens! We still have the small things to do, like painting edges and just making it look nicer all around. Thanks...Sue
  7. Bigbens Chicken Coop

    Bigbens Chicken Coop

    This is a picture of what the structure looked like when I started. The original home owner raised pidgons When I bought the house the owner offered to remove all the pidgon coops. I said to leave them. One end was sinking into the ground so I removed 12 feet...
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  8. Barred Rockers Chicken Coop

    Barred Rockers Chicken Coop

    The condo duplex coop This project began simple enough, build a coop separated in two to keep my buff orpingtons on one side and barred rocks on the other. Once I got into it, it evolved into a 2 month project that met my requirements of what I felt a coop should be. It first had to be predator...
  9. Open Air Coops

    Open Air Coops

    I like for my birds to have plenty of air. So when I have to close them up they don't feel too hot. In the winter, they can get close for warmth and we will put tarps over the front if it is too windy but in the summer, they need lots of air at night for comforatable sleeping. Two coops, side...
  10. Beccaohs Chicken Coop

    Beccaohs Chicken Coop

    Hello from east central Ohio. Back in the 1950s my grandfather had a chicken farm called Morning Gem. He raised nearly 3000 layers in cages in a big block building, then drove around delivering eggs to homes and businesses. By the time I came along the building was a tractor shed and the...
  11. Quinaults Chicken Coop

    Quinaults Chicken Coop

    Coop With A View Built by Ken Sweet of Montana We live off the grid in the mountains of Montana and this is our coop. Our coop is 14 x 32 with a 112 square foot ante-room for food and supply storage. The main area of the coop haas 36 nesting boxes, three 16' roosting bars and can be divided in...
  12. Barn Style Coop W Storage

    Barn Style Coop W Storage

    Barn Style Coop w/Storage The mostly finished project. Is it ever really done?? I would like to include the original plans I drew up for the coop, but my husband left them outside and they got rained on, tromped on, and then finally thrown away. *sigh* But considering he's worked his tail...
  13. Bantymamas Shed Coop

    Bantymamas Shed Coop

    My Coop Here is my coop. We already had a Insulated 16x16 shed that we used for storage and decided to clean it out and use it. We used half of the shed to make 5 pens. 4 pens are 3 feet wide and 8 feet long and one is 4 feet wide and 8 feet long. Each pen has it's own door that goes out to the...
  14. Sweetchickss Chicken Coop

    Sweetchickss Chicken Coop

    "The Chilton" https://www.backyardchickens.com/ This is how our coop came about. We have two boys 11 and 7, our oldest son joined the 4-H Club at his school. He selected the Poultry project, two years in a row, no chickens 1st yr.. I put off ordering the chicks for over a year! After being...
  15. The Chicken Experience

    The Chicken Experience

    The Chicken Experience Our Coop Building Experience... Let me start by saying this has been a pretty cool experience for my DH and I. He has been enlisting the help of friends to finish the barn -- adding a loft, installing wiring, framing in the tack room (even wiring it for phone and...
  16. A Chicken Palace Quailcreekfarms Chicken Coop

    A Chicken Palace Quailcreekfarms Chicken Coop

    We found ourselves the proud owners of chickens, but we had no coop. We also had no experience in construction or farming. Soooo, we bought a bunch of books of coop designs, a couple books on general construction techniques and headed off to the lumber yard. I gave the salesman a list of what I...
  17. Casa De Huevos Lux Interiors Chicken Coop Lots Of Pictures

    Casa De Huevos Lux Interiors Chicken Coop Lots Of Pictures

    Staff note: We’ve been trying to find a way to restore the missing pics to this article but haven’t had any luck. Hopefully the author will be able to help us get the pics loaded back up! Casa De Huevos! Our Coop has finally been finished! I got the idea from another coop I found on BYC, and my...
  18. My Pallet Chicken Coop

    My Pallet Chicken Coop

    My Pallet Chicken Duplex We have been building a chicken duplex out of old pallets that we are recycling. This whole coop is made out of recycled materials. The only purchases we have made is for chicken wire, screw, nails and hardware (latches, hinges, etc). This is the side view of the run...
  19. Pemberley At The Little Red Farmhouse - My3jsons's Chicken Coop

    Pemberley At The Little Red Farmhouse - My3jsons's Chicken Coop

    Welcome to Pemberley at the Little Red Farmhouse! Yeah, I know it's not Jane Austen's Pemberley but for a chicken house we think it is pretty grand! And besides Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth & Jane live there. This is our coop story: Our chicken house is 16' x 4' and 2' off the ground. My sweet...
  20. Ozark Bantams Our Chicken House Brooder House Attachment Two Pens

    Ozark Bantams Our Chicken House Brooder House Attachment Two Pens

    OZARK BANTAMS Our Chicken House, Brooder House Attachment, and Two Pens Front View Of Our Chicken House, Brooder House Attachment, and Pens This is our chicken house. It houses our small flock of black cochin bantams. The house includes the main chicken house, a separate brooding house...
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