36x12 breeding house/laying house

jsuhre · Aug 6, 2013

I started building my chicken coop yesterday. We poured concrete on Friday and the building started this week. There is an 8x8 room in the center for feed storage. 4x8 next to it for brooder. On both sides of the feed storage/brooder is two 14x12 pens. The south side will be split into 4 sections for breeding and the north side will be one big pen for laying hens. This is what we have so far.

brooder room

feed storage

jsuhre · Aug 11, 2013

We got the roof plywood on and the doors on the inside done before the weekend. We also got one of the double doors done on the ends of the building.

thomasboyle · Aug 11, 2013

Holy cow! Very nice coop - although what you are building hardly seems like a coop! Are you doing chickens commercially or for yourself? How many birds are you planning on, and are you going to have any sort of outdoor run, or are these indoor only chickens?

jsuhre · Aug 15, 2013

Thank you! I am doing them for myself but I would eventually like to start selling chicks over the internet. There will be an outside run but I have not gotten that far yet. I still have to level out the ground before I build the outdoor pen. I originally started out with 25 hens and an 8x8 coop. Then I built a 4x8 coop and another 8x8 coop and had 50 hens and two roosters. It was to much of a hassle to get in three coops every day to feed and water so I decided to build one big one. I plan on having four different breeds. 50-75 laying hens and 12 hens of each breed with a rooster for breeding. So all together I will probably have about 100 chickens.

aart · Aug 16, 2013

Nice!! Do you have a floor plan you could post?

jsuhre · Aug 16, 2013

Yes I sort of have a floor plan I can post later. Most of it we just kind of planned it as we built it

jsuhre · Aug 20, 2013

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/794962/need-help-with-large-coop-design#post_11598273 this is the floor plan I started out with. As you can tell I made a few changes

jsuhre · Aug 20, 2013

We got the removable breeding pens built and installed and I also built nesting boxes and roosts that fold away.

aart · Aug 20, 2013

jsuhre said:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/794962/need-help-with-large-coop-design#post_11598273 this is the floor plan I started out with. As you can tell I made a few changes

Yeah, still can't really tell what the floor plan is with the photos.....hard to take enough pics from far enough away too really see the layout....plus I'm an old drafter, spoiled by floor plans, elevations and such.

jsuhre · Sep 15, 2013

I have not updated this in a long time but we are almost completely finished with the building. All we have left to do is run the electricity. I also got the chicks on Wednesday. Here is what we have done.