Anyone used an old yard swing for a frame?

Should work, I seen much less structural things used to make coops. You might want to give it a good coat of rust proofing paint before you start.

good luck, post pics of the finished product.

 

We used our old swing set as a basis for our old chicken coop. The kids DID NOT approve!! It worked well except after building had started I realized that everything wasn't squared up so all my walls ended up being slanted which made it really difficult to make a fitted door. A fox ended up getting in. Now we have a new coop built from new lumber and new chickens. My husband uses the old swing set coop for storage.

 

I haven't, but my brother has a coop that is framed around their old swing set. It's actually pretty awesome. It has nesting boxes on one end and a coop with roost on the other. It works quite well.

 

We use our old swing frame to hang the scalded carcasses for plucking. It's a big help, if you're going to process...

 

I used my kids' old swing set frame to make 2 coops.

I used three pieces of plywood and covered them with metal roofing material and a roof cap. Then I made triangular doors with vents in each of them.

I have since started to disassemble them. They were unusable after awhile. Here's why:

1. The plywood floors started to warp at each end downwards, and my screws started to come out. This left a gap that critters might have been able to get into.

2. The ventilation was so poor that even with large vents on each door, I worried about my chickens. I eventually took them out and STUFFED them into my other coops, where I was certain they could get more fresh air. Then I sold some chickens to alleviate the overcrowding.

3. The wood ceilings of the "A" frame at the entrances warped, so the doors were having a hard time closing. The barrel bolts didn't line up anymore. Then the doors started to pop open by themselves whenever a few chickens clustered near the door from their weight.

4. The rain soaked the entrances and left wet shavings there. So I took the shavings out and treated the floors like a poop board. Well, they STAYED wet- nasty. I tried putting up tarps and shower curtains to keep the rain out- but they were just so ugly.

5. I couldn't catch chickens once they entered the coop unless I had a second person to herd them to the opposite side where I was (the whole thing was like a tunnel). So I tried using a net bungee corded onto a very long pole- UGH!