Check out my new coop!!!!!

[wjallen05]

Good job. Good to have a place for younger chooks too. Roomy coop and well ventilated. I would look into adding hardware cloth to bottom of all chicken wire around both runs. Coons, coyotes, and dogs all can rip up chicken wire like nothing. Run size looks too small too. When you can get posts and wire, enlarge it. Also be aware that many preds can climb in to that being that it is 4 ft tall. Electrifiction is the real deal to stop that.

I didn't ask for opinions or criticism. A 200 sq foot run and 80 sq foot coop is plenty of space for 18 small to medium size birds, and it's not your place to tell me that my run is too small or that I should enlarge it.
I am aware that predators can climb it. We have wire left over to put over the top we just haven't gotten to it yet. And the fence is 5 foot, but we buried it 8 inches in the ground.

Nice set up. I like the dual runs, can they choose which they want to go in or are they separate? I see your run fence is only about 4' high

Thank you. No they cannot choose which run, one is for the babies and one is for the adults. It's a little over 4 foot tall, we burried 8 inches in the ground. Only one hen has flown out, I am shocked that they haven't all flown out. I don't care anyway since I used to let them free-range, I just made a run because I am tired of me and the kids stepping in chicken poop, and also I am concerned as far as bio-security reasons (with people coming over). We plan to finish the run today- we've been busy with our daughters' birthdays and it's been raining.​

 

[Acre of Blessings]

Great Job!!!

 

[wjallen05]

Thank you!

I am really excited about it. My chickens love it too.

 

[joyous]

What a great idea with a separate run for the babies! I plan to have babies next spring so I may borrow your idea!

 

[obxWaMi]

Great job!!

 

[lindabean]

Nice concept. I'm wondering how you like the low ceilings in the runs? I need to expand my chick-house, but when we built it, we made it about 6 feet high, so we could walk around inside easily. My chick-house is in the back corner of the run, and I have access to the next boxes through a trap door on the outside. But, like I said, I need to expand the house as it is way to small. Looking for ideas and like what you designed. Would like to see more photos of the inside, nesting boxes, roosts, etc.

 

[lindabean]

I forgot to mention that I used a plastic 1/2 inch mesh deer netting over the top of my run to keep out what needs to be kept out. I had it left over from an effort to keep deer away from my outside plants. It was relatively cheap and came folded in half. Unfolded, it is 4 feet wide and went easily over my run. I put 2 crossed chain link fence top poles left over from a fencing project, just for support. Turns out my new half grown kitten thinks it's great fun to walk out on it when I'm inside the pen with the chickens. Guess he's the one I have really needed to keep out!

 

[mylittlezoo]

I think your coop looks fantastic! I sent a picture to my husband, telling him that that's what I want my next coop to look like!!

 

[wjallen05]

Thank you

Lindabean, I will (attempt to) get pictures for you today.