Anyone convert a wooden swingset into a chicken coop? Need ideas.

[BirdBrain]

I finally convinced my Mom to agree to chickens. Daddy has been wanting them a long time. They have a wooden swingset that my kids and nieces don't use any more. We thought to use the structure as the basis for a chicken coop. We do not want to maintain the A-frame shape, just use it to built on to. The set looks like the one pictured at this site http://www.swing-n-slide.com/swingsets_pioneer.htm We would like to add uprights at each corner and in between to make it a rectangular building. We plan to scavenge some of the tin from the old barn for the roof. We live in south Texas and it gets very hot and humid here. I think the footprint of the swingset (minus the slide) is about 16 feet long, 7.5 deep, and 8 feet tall. Ideally I would like to have a double decker affair with run space underneath. Momma needs to be able to clean it with out a lot of bending. The birds would be allowed to free range during the day and come back to the coop at night. Do you think it is realistic to think of getting an order of 25 birds in there if they are only going to be there during the night? Any ideas on how I can pull this coop conversion off?

 

[laurenlulu]

I'm not good at any kind of designing, but that looks like a great set up- you won't need to do much work!

My neighbors have the frame of an old metal a-frame swing set sitting with their piles of lawn trash- I'm very tempted to ask for it to try to make some kind of coop.

 

[Prester John]

Actually, that looks like it would work very well!

 

[mmtillman]

What a neat idea...be sure and show pix if you complete one ?

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Check the coop pics. I know someone made a coop using a wooden swing set, can't remember who though

 

[BirdBrain]

I'm not seeing anything. I must be missing it somewhere.

 

[Zahboo]

It's in the large coops, it's the red 2 story thing. I think it's called the silkie chatlet, not sure though.

 

[happyhens]

Found it

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=3488-silkie_coop
It does look great!

 

[BirdBrain]

Thanks y'all. Boy is that a nice coup. Our swingset is just the no frills tripod kind with a slide on one end. We are going to have to build a framework around it and then roof it. I would like for momma to be able to walk into it.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

BirdBrain, build it and take lots of pics along the way so we can create a great byc coop page of it!!!!