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  1. Harvester Egg Farm

    Harvester Egg Farm

    Our Harvester Egg Farm Coop My husband and I have sort of tossed around the idea of getting chickens in the past but always laughed it off as a ridiculous idea, especially as I'm not even very fond of eggs, but for some reason, this year, the idea stuck. My husband works with someone who...
  2. Spare wood and spare space. I think I will build a coop.

    Spare wood and spare space. I think I will build a coop.

    Welcome to my first chicken coop attempt. I don't even have a chicken, but love the idea of them. Should I spend all this time and energy in building a coop, just for some semi-domesticated animals. Yes, my wife made me realise it was a good idea, after she pointing out that she felt that I was...
  3. Coop And Garden My Foray Into Coop Building

    Coop And Garden My Foray Into Coop Building

    So I have wanted chickens for a long time now, and when we finally purchased a home in Edmonds, WA, I was finally able to get chickens. We searched high and low for chicken coops that we likes, but in all honesty I couldn't see spending the money of ones from local stores when I saw how flimsy...
  4. Bantam coop- for the CARPENTRY CHALLENGED!

    Bantam coop- for the CARPENTRY CHALLENGED!

    I am very carpentry challenged haveing absolutely no training/skills or experience prior to trying to build my girls their first coop. I had made a larger coop very similar to this one last January for my big girls. But this time I kept the plans and thought maybe they would help someone else...
  5. The Comedihens New Coop

    The Comedihens New Coop

    After keeping our three hens in a small chicken tractor for their first year, it was time to commit to building a more permanent home. Like everyone else here, we browsed and browsed some more, until we found a model we thought we could replicate fairly easily and inexpensively...
    • LoriL
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  6. Tropical Henhouse

    Tropical Henhouse

    We purchased our three chicks before we thought too much about the coop and we thought we had plenty of time to build a small coop. They grew so darn fast that we started with a premade coop and then built the runs. We decided on "The Parlor Chicken Coop" from www.chickensaloon.com and ordered...
  7. The Pollo Club

    The Pollo Club

    We had been living in the city - unfortunately after my husband's job transferred him, "the city" was located 64 miles from my husband's new place of work. With two children with special needs, it became increasingly important to make the move closer to my husband's work. Of course this...
    • Bulldogma
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  8. "Hinkel Haus" made of pallets & recycled wood pickets

    "Hinkel Haus" made of pallets & recycled wood pickets

    ~ Sally Sunshine Poultry ~ "Hinkel Haus" made of pallets and recycled wood picket fencing From PA! Hinkel is PA Dutch for Chicken btw! DETAILS FOLLOWING Final coop Pics! Mostly recycled materials for the coop, 2 paint colors and a sharpie, yup sharpie! We have to finish...
  9. Cheap And Recycled

    Cheap And Recycled

    I used mostly discarded packing pallets that I found in an industrial park. True, I had to disassemble and clean all the wood of nails, etc, but it really wasn't that bad. Also I had 4 toilet seats that I didn't know what to do with and thought they might be handy. So...using some ideas from...
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  10. Chicken Scratch Coop

    Chicken Scratch Coop

    We caught the chicken bug in the spring and ended up building this coop. Its design is based on a combination of coops on this site and others. I spent some time actually modeling it with CAD software to figure out how I would put it all together, although once construction started, not all of...
  11. Mini-van Mobile Coop

    Mini-van Mobile Coop

    Finished Product: For over a year, since I purchased my first 8 chicks from MPC, I've been eyeing our 17 year old mini-van that has been sitting in the meadow, only used to haul stuff to the dump for several years. I had this notion to turn the back end (2 rows of seats removed) into a...
  12. The Egg Stop

    The Egg Stop

    I had been researching coops for over a year and finally narrowed down on a design. It borrows heavily from both Boisemarker's & Wichita coops. I really liked the look and feel of these, the sloping shed roof, the human access door to the run, the layout and how everything seems easily...
  13. Cozy Cottage Coop

    Cozy Cottage Coop

    This is the coop I made for my small 2-3 hen flock in Houston. I based my plans partly off of a design in the book 'Building Chicken Coops for Dummies', but my dimensions were determined by the scraps I had in the garage. I purchased 2x6s for the base, 3 lengths of 2x4s for the run, and of...
  14. Everything But The Kitchen Sink Coop

    Everything But The Kitchen Sink Coop

    This is our finished coop. It was a kitchen sink cabinet. We searched and looked at many designs. In the end my husband Chad came up with this idea. I am very happy with the coop he built. It took about 3 days from construction to paint. We recently did some work on our house so we had lots of...
  15. Oyako Donburi Coop

    Oyako Donburi Coop

    First "real" thing I have ever built. Learned a couple of things along the way, but perhaps the best advice I can give (even though no one is asking) is to start with a plan. Decide what functions and design elements you want before you get started, but don't be a slave to your plans -- they...
  16. Mobile Chicken Coop

    Mobile Chicken Coop

    With a base of 10 x 10 would consider it a Smaill coop... And the Arc is Cattle fencing ... Cattle fencing and sides covered with chicken wire and a door to walk in the front and the nesting boxes have lift up covers ... When I charged my friend with coming up with a design for my coop, My two...
  17. Hoop House

    Hoop House

    This is our hoop house for our pastured system. I wanted to build a new coop for our chickens this year. Our original coop was a stationary coop and the birds free ranged over our property. That didn't work so well for us though because we have so many predators and I was sick of losing...
    • MacGuyver
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  18. Petaluma Cabin Coop

    Petaluma Cabin Coop

    OR The Poor Man's Wichita Cabin Coop I found the most excellent Wichita Cabin Coop here and thought it had the right size and features that I wanted for my coop. But, I could tell that I could not compare in terms of carpentry skill with its maker, and I also wanted to keep cost to a...
  19. Country Acres

    Country Acres

    My husband and I had to have a lovely coop for our girls. We took an existing design and made it to suit our needs. Our coop is 6x4 with the coop part being almost 4x4. I will start with the plans. Hopefully you can see the measurements in the pictures. My husband was...
    • Cohsm
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  20. Green Chicken Tractor

    Green Chicken Tractor

    This is our first attempt at owning chickens, we live in a residential area and wanted to make sure we had everything we needed in our first attempt at a coop so that it was easy to clean, nice to look at, and able to be moved around. We have 6 Golden Comets and are looking forward to having...
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