2@1@ make a coop out of anything thread competion.

[Break an Egg]

I guess mine is a little different from most you would see, it's made out of angle iron and expanded metal, and a little plywood. My husband made it at work. I use it for chicks during the day, and nothing has gotten in there yet. Plus it's a little heavy, but I can drag it around the yard when I need to. I love it.

ETA: the bulk of it was cut off a utility trailer.

 

[Kansaseq]

These are so creative; I love them!

 

[hunterjumper999]

First attempt, Occasional escapees... hence the horseblanket blocker... no shade ( hence the tarp) used 8 boards and a 1/2 roll of poultry netting. really difficult enterance.

Attempt 2, Better ground woodwork, no escapees, small perch, shade both am and pm and better entry. 6 smaller, lighter boards and 1/4 roll of netting of two different sizes.


we have two more built, each slightly different and I'll add pics tomorrow.

 

[bahamas]

groovy cats !

 

[lynned]

Here's mine - it's still needs some work before the chickens go in and I will get finalized pics up in a month or two. We summer at a fly-in fishing resort and decided to build a coop out of the midsection of an old cedar strip boat ....

first off - this isn't the exact boat we cut the section out of, but it is the same model

and here is the mid section after sanding and varnishing

and this is after an old, wooden framed, window was put in one end

and now putting it on it's posts at the edge of the garden

and a better view on the posts

view of garden area and coop at rear

we still have to enclose underneath the coop yet. I think I will actually turn it into a wooden enclosure. We then will build a run of some sort though I am hoping to mainly free range the chickens. The entire coop lifts via two huge hinges on the one side and then can be propped up for easy cleaning. I think for a first time job it will work out just fine. We did the building during summer of 2009 in preparation for chicks in May 2010. The roof does need a little bit of water proofing yet prior to moving the chicks in.

I'm a new chicken owner, just received my chicks on Tuesday and though I am in my city home right now, can't wait to transport all the chickies to their cool summer home in the remote Canadian wilderness

Can't wait to come back to post pics of the chickens in this coop ....

 

[bigoakhunter]

Mine started out as a 4x8 utility trailer that the wood sides had rotted off on. I framed in a coop on the trailer bed. Built nestboxes, roost, insulated and put a steel roof on it.

Here it is framed in.

Finished product. Can actually be towed down the road. I towed it over to neighbor's about a mile away to show him. You can see one end vent, hinged window behind my shoulder and in the door roost bar with droppings board.

Here is the shot of my hens checking out the nestboxes that I had just uncovered, so they could start using them. They love the coop and lay like champs. We get cold weather in Michigan, and the coop has 2 inch thick insulation, with lots of vents up high and a good roof. It worked well. Also I hitched on to it this spring and moved it to another spot. Built a run that can also be moved.

 

[pulletkeeper]

I wish I had that much imagination!

 

[ClairedeLune]

Great coops everyone!

 

[ChixMama]

I've enjoyed seeing everyone's creativity--trailers, toppers & boats! So ok,I'll play! We already have 3 storage buildings (1 for garden stuff, 1 for boat stuff & 1 for lawnmower type stuff), a garden, a playscape & an area for my husband's BBQ pit so there wasn't room for a coop in our backyard. Or wasn't there?!?! My daughter no longer uses the sandbox portion of her playscape but she still enjoys the swings & the slide. So when we talked about getting chickens for eggs she agreed to give up the sandbox to the chickens. I wish we could have had the playhouse area (leads to the slide) and it would have been a much easier build & bigger coop....but we can always build up later!

Here's a "before" picture:

Here's a "during" picture as we took off the sides of the playhouse area in order to build a coop roof & floor:

Here's our helper staining the walls:

Here's the "after" and how it looks completed:

Here's the external nestboxes & our girls in the run:

Here's the run/pop door/people door side:

Here's a look at the inside with the movable poop board/roost:

Here's the run made from a dog kennel & covered with hardware cloth (has apron about 2 feet out under gravel):

We're glad it's done & the girls enjoy their coop/run. We let them out for an hour or so each day in the backyard &
they have a ball eating grass, bugs & worms. For now we're waiting til mid-June for eggs!

 

[hunterjumper999]

finsished 3 more of these babies since 7 am.


MY father in law is a COOP MACHINE.


well, movable ghetto tractor machine anyway