Brand new chick owner. Need coop help

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TriciaChiariello

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It was kind of sudden but I adopted 4 precious chicks last week. Never done this before! They’re doing great in the brooder but I am looking for coop ideas. I was planning to order this one til I read the bad D ratings from BBB. And my husband is a retired contractor so I know he can build something great but he needs plans. Does anyone know of something like this that I can get/buy plans for??? Please advise
 

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Welcome to BYC! Show those to yer hubby, but build a coop you can actually enter is my advice to clean or retrieve birds off the roosts at night for meds, pest treatments or for minor injuries. Also ask that handy hubby to build in a separate area for quarantines/introductions or to keep feed and other supplies dry plus whatever chicken specific tools you decide you need. Also build for your area and potential predators or do you live in an area of excessive heat like I do? build for it. My local lumber store charged me $12.88 for the last 12ft 4x4 I bought from them. So building em is pretty cheap. You can purchase 100sq ft of the same roll on roofing as they use on that coop for around $100 I estimate they used 40sq/ft or less on that one item in the coop build as displayed.

In short you can build it yourself, cheaper, better, and stronger if ya have a handy hubby with tools. Also that coop build really needs more ventilation no mater where you live.

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