medium coops

my new coop that my dad gave me. this is the side door enterance this is the front of the coop. this is the back of the coop and left side view this is inside look at coop. I am going to remodle the inside and clean it up quite a bit. I will add insulation between studs and add plywood over...

COOP D'LUX This is our little coop. It houses 12 hens 2 roosters. Our flock consists of 5 new hampshire reds 4 black austrolorps 3 black sex links 2 bantum mutt roosters. We also have in smaller coops, 2 six week old buff orpingtons 1 six week old coocoo maran; also 1 polish crested...

We are getting close to having it all done. My dear Husband only has the gutter and trim around the top to do. The Door will have to be painted later. [/img]Soffit https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/51370_dsc06043.jpg [/url]...

My Chicken Coop This 20 ft dog concrete paved dog run was the base for my new coop (May 2010): It has a full-sized chain-link door, a concrete foundation, a chain-link roof, and perfectly good supports. The dog kennel frame is made of steel angle iron with pre-drilled holes. Here's what I...

Our Playhouse Coop After we hatched our chickens, we knew that we needed to get working on a coop for them, since they grow quickly. Initially we were going to build a smaller tractor coop, but we ended up needing more space than that. So we decided to convert a playhouse from a swingset...

Hershey's Coop Hi, My name is Ron, It is my privilege to be married to a very understanding lady named Carolyn. We have three grown children and one new grandchild and a great Black Labrador named Hershey Kiss.(Her mother's name was Bodacious and her father was Chocolate Fudge so the name was a...

Here are the hand-drawn plans that my younger son and I came up with. These are the original (first draft of our plans. I am hoping to be able to redo these drawings with the correct measurements we used and get them posted as soon as possible. My husband and I followed...

We started this journey as a way to become more food self sufficient . This has been such a busy spring that has presented with a huge learning curve . We had both been around chickens when we were younger but their upkeep etc was all new. We have built 2 coops , our main coop which is 8x8 that...

Coop in the Woods This is a coop I made thanks to all of the forum help and BYC resources. I spent a great deal of time looking at the Coop Pages before I started building my own. It is made from materials salvaged from a porch which was removed from our house and a few new parts. I wanted one...

My coop/poultry barn is built almost entirely of recycled materials. It is not very pretty but it is functional. The base is a heavy oak shipping pallet, the frame is 2X4s and 4X4s from our old pool deck, the siding is flakeboard from shipping pallets, the doors are from scrap lumbers, the nest...

the zip ties are the white things hanging down they have been replaced with j-clips thanks to byc-ers advice (love those things and the special j-clip pliers) so far we have decided to only use the one half of the rabbit hutch, for one thing the front half is so totally 'ventilated' I thought...

Building The New Coop This is the old coop. Gene made it as a temporary coop thinking I will get over chickens. Its made with scrap pieces and is not very airtight or preditor proof, but they made it thought 2 winters in it. We also made a seperate fenced off area under the tarp to keep the...

Our 9 yr old daughter wanted to buy chicks at TSC with allowance and started it all...... She bought 5 RIR's and 1 mystery chick. Then she wanted a silkie and we found her a splash silkie chick. I decided I wanted some Buff Orpingtons and we got six of those. Our grand total is now 13. My...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE A COMMENT. LOVE TO HEAR FEEDBACK! Started on framing and got the floor down today. There was a bit of framing stupidity due to me dropping the level of the floor. I just need to scab it out some to support the back wall. Not a big issue. I gave the bottom of the OSB a coat...

Hello, welcome to my coop! It is 9ft x 10ft and built from the back half of the carport next to our shed. Our run is 10ft x 20ft We now have a 2nd coop in the front half of the carport so we have a "chicken duplex." We're planning on making the runs bigger than 10x20 this year also...want to...

Run 8 X 20 Run Door Here is the tool I made to stretch the chicken wire You attach the wire on the top of the run board,then hook the four nails on the tool in the wire at the bottom and put your knee on it pulling the wire tight and holding it as you staple it. It made it go ALOT faster!

BEFORE! Watching us And Working us hard ...lol Coop Day 1 I had a lot of help from my son Duncan. They are learning and I allowed the mess ups. It's the only way I know they will learn. Having a hard time drilling the concrete! My Daughter Rayna, A great help with construction...

I've drawn out scale drawings of the walls, floor and interior. I'll look into attaching pdf files or some other method to get them to print out to scale. (Click the image for high-res version) (Click the image for high-res version) (Click the image for high-res version) Note: The...