COMMUNITY PROJECT: Let's Design The Perfect Coop!!!

[Nifty-Chicken]

Okay everyone. Chrystal has been working super hard on designs and she has come up with some great ideas.

Please review some of the sketches at the link below and provide as much feedback as possible so we can work to refine these plans into the best (general purpose plans) and make them available to the community!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/coops/plans/index.php

Super thanks to everyone for your feedback and a ton of thanks to Chrystal for her hard work.

 

[McGoo]

the design is really great! Thanks for the precision workmanship.

Suggestions on the design -
1. would it make sense to use the slanted top portion of the coop, the angled part, as the ventilation part. Heat rises and that would keep the coop cooler. You could put netting for security and plexiglass for closing when you need warmth but still being able to bring in sunshine.

2. Also, someone mentioned that a 'false' ceiling works great in winter. Place a large, removable false celing below the slanted portion of the roof - for winter so the chooks have less air to warm. The roof would need a couple of holes to vent to the upper area and out the openings.

Hope I explained that well.

 

[CarlaRiggs]

Chrystal,

The plans are wonderful; you've done a great job of putting everything together for us all. This is a good, basic coop that can easily be tweaked a bit if anyone wants to customize it a bit.
Thanks for all your time, effort and generosity.

 

[ChrystalGail]

Thank you, Carla. I will be adding some more things to it, like a framing plan, so it is easier to build. I really appreciate your kind words!

 

[DENALI]

Anything new with this?

 

[tororider]

I too am wondering if there is any updates coming from this, looks great!

 

[tororider]

Were there ever any plans for the inside of the coop?

 

[Mrs Chickenlady]

If you're looking for something compact, inexpensive, secure from critters/pedators and could be made portable this may be worth considering. Nesting boxes were added to the end with it's own separate door. This housed my 5 Production Reds very comfortably.

 

[tororider]

Mrs. Chickenlady,
Do you have designs for yours, or dimensions? And pictures of the inside would be really helpful. It looks really nice!

 

[CarlaRiggs]

Chrystal has her hands full with a young family and a business. She was sweet enough to begin work on the chicken coop, but it didn't seem that there was much feed-back on her plans.
There had been plenty of talk *before* the plans were posted.

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There were also not many 'thank yous' afterward, either.

Perhaps Chrystal thought that we had lost interest. I thought she worked up a wonderful diagram, and a good basic coop that chicken owners could adapt to their own circumstances.

Carla