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  1. mpf's Member Page

    mpf's Member Page

    It was from a "step5" home... The green surfaces are exterior plywood, in 1/2 and 3/8 thickness. The simple non-movable pieces= 3/8. The 2 nest door areas are 1/2, you will want that for the hinge/screws and weight-bearing ability. Caulked before the screws were driven, the plastic surfaces are...
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  2. emeded's Member Page

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    Sara and Andi's Chicken Coop Last year (2010) I started playing with an idea of getting some chickens as pets for my kids, as well as to be able to collect some eggs. We decided to go with 3 RIR's with possibility for expansion. I looked on the web to find some good plan that would fit our space...
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  3. the-drummonds-chicken-coop

    the-drummonds-chicken-coop

    The Drummonds Chicken Coop We are very unexperienced when it comes to building anything, but the prices for a coop and run of this size would have been very expensive if bought brand new in kit set form. I had been looking around at...
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  4. kittycooks

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    I've always loved chickens. My folks grew up on farms during the depression and do not understand "pet" chickens, but I know you all do! My current flock is eight hens, no roos allowed in my Minneapolis suburb. I am currently raising three buff orphingtons (Dixie, Dixie B and Sunny), a silver...
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    My Chicken Experience The Building Of The Newtronical Nesting Ground Ok, so I decided to get some guinneys to keep watch over the three goats that I have recently purchased. I aquired the goats to help me with eliminating the brush that has grown up along the creek behind the house. I have...
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    How To Convert an Old Dog House Into a Chicken Coop I realized I couldn't build my own coop from scratch, yet my DIY ethic prevented me from buying one outright. So I started with a large cedar dog house. Step 1: Buy Dog House Both my dogs can fit inside this doghouse - it's huge! The...
  7. The Mini Coop

    The Mini Coop

    A dear friend of mine had a bantam hen to hatch out a clucth of chicks that she thought we just had to have. Being infected with the chicken sickenss, we were unable to disagree. I wanted to build a coop for them that was seperate from the main coop. I also wanted this mini-coop to be useful...
  8. hollywood-henhouse

    hollywood-henhouse

    After having a couple of coops that were really hard to work with, I decided that this time I'd spend some extra time and get it right! This coop was built almost entirely out of scraps, including a wooden shipping crate, some parts of other coops, and plywood from old cabinet doors. The roof...
  9. Concordmommys Page

    Concordmommys Page

    Construction updates on The West Wing, our Garden Coop for our girls! Instructions on how to build a chicken coop with little or no building experience: First: be determined: Fear not, make sure you have a hardware store nearby, and take some ibuprofen, because you're gonna be sore tomorrow...
  10. Coop

    Coop

    Our Coop My wife and I have been interested in keeping chickens for quite some time now. We happen to live in a city that's friendly toward keeping chickens (Austin, TX) and do not live in an HOA neighborhood. The only thing holding us back was trying to figure out what we wanted to do for a...
  11. Speeds Member Page

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    Here is the start of my 5' x 6' coop floor framing walls going up back view front view back view with roof inside view auto feeder inside the coop, has storage room for (2) 50LB bags of feed completed coop with 12' X 12' run This coop was built for about $65.00. The only purchased...
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    This is my little coop! Before putting in the chickens, I added more fence (two feet) extending outward from the bottom, and weighed it down with large rocks. I also put in about four inches of crusher-run gravel to raise the level for good drainage. I think it's predator-proof, but I still...
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  13. Nikkichikkis Member Page

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    5/6 Chicken Math? So, I'm still loving my chickens. So much. I love coming home after work and checking for eggs with my little brother. I love stomping around in the yard to find crickets and grasshoppers. I love getting all torn up by thorns and tall grass and stickers picking dewberries...
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    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! My name is Kathleen and I live in St George, Kansas with my husband and b/g twins, Sam and Annie. We live...
  15. Lewisusa1

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    Hello Everybody. My name is Chris, I am a new member, and would like to share with you our girls and the building of their coop. We purchased 6 chicks onMay 20th, 2 Rhode Island Reds, and 4 Buff Orpingtons. They of course are growing fast, and about 2 weeks ago the wife demanded that they be...
  16. Building The Coop

    Building The Coop

    Here is where the coop is going to go. Sorry for the image on the side, as soon as I figure out how to rotate it I will, but for now just turn your head to the right or your laptop to the left. I got the starting plans free from buildeazy.com. My original plan was to put the coop on skids, but...
  17. My Coop 1

    My Coop 1

    Hi I live in Port Charlotte Florida. We wanted to create a coop that was all one unit coop & run, since we have limited space we built the unit from plywood, 2x4, 2x2 and hardware cloth. The coop measures 6X10 is 5ft tall on the drop down door side and 6ft high on the entrance door side...
  18. Maison Des Plumes

    Maison Des Plumes

    Documenting construction of La Maison des Plumes April '09: Construction commenced approximately 2 or 3 months ago in my driveway. I began by framing the four walls and applying and fastening hardware cloth to all the sides. May '09: - A human size entry door was assembled and fitted into...
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    Northern Illinois Chickens Picked up our first batch of 5 chicks on April 24th 2010. I am mom of 5 kids, a great husband and now 5 chickies. We live in a small town in Illinois real close to the Wisconsin border. We would like to have a farm. A small chicken flock will get us started...
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    "Bloom where you're planted..." My name is Katie and I'm venturing into the world of urban chickens. Currently (Nov. 2009), it's not legal to keep chickens within my city limits. I live smack dab in the city, two blocks down from a 7-11. I have a loving and supportive partner (who thinks I'm...
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