Blue prints for raised chicken coop

[farmerbrowne]

Howdy all,
I'm looking for drawing and plans for a small raised chicken coop. My neighbor is wanting to try his hand at chickens by borrowing a couple of mine. He's in a wheelchair so I need to make it fairly accessable. He says he only wants a roo and two hens but come on we all know chicken math here!!

 

[sawilliams]

If possible strongly encourage him to start with 3 hens no roosters as 2 hens wouldn't be enough for a rooster.

As for the coop something with external nests you might need to have him do a test hieght to make sure he can open then and collect the eggs.

 

[Dayrel]

I'd recommend going to the Chicken Coops area and browsing around for good setups. Not all will have formal plans, but there are plenty of good ideas and designs there.

 

[bobbieschicks]

View attachment 1147767 Might I suggest if he has the room to he might consider instead to make it a large enough shed building for him to get into with his chair and have access to the eggs by a rollout nest box that is inside on an interior wall.

Maybe the "coop" part is just a wired portion inside the shed that has inside a roost above a slide in/out poop tray so he can pull out tray and dump it or scrape it and return, the nestbox on the interior wall where the birds gets inside from the wired room and lay eggs that roll to the back to be gathered from the interior of the coop, and with a small exterior door to an outdoor run attached for the birds to get outside time.

Not sure if I'm describing this well.

Basically a store bought garden shed like from HD or Lowes that you'd add an interior wall to make a coop out of a portion of it.

Otherwise I'd suggest a small coop design could be as simple as a small dog house built up on a platform and modified with a nestbox, door and hardware cloth.

I just built this 3'x4' Silkie coop for about $80 using plywood, t1-111, and 2x2s I had laying around. Drafted out the plan and started cutting. Took me around 2 weeks of off/on daily work to get it built.

 

[bobbieschicks]

 

[aart]

Howdy all,
I'm looking for drawing and plans for a small raised chicken coop. My neighbor is wanting to try his hand at chickens by borrowing a couple of mine. He's in a wheelchair so I need to make it fairly accessable. He says he only wants a roo and two hens but come on we all know chicken math here!!

Can he stand at all? What about winter access....does his chair have 'snow tires'?
Trying to think of the actual logistics to be able to feed, water, examine birds off roost, gather eggs......mostly being able to get close enough and operate from a seated position.

ETA: did a quick search and found this, didn't read thru it, but you might want to for ideas:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...thread-for-those-of-us-in-wheelchairs.893225/