Coop help (design and permits necessary??)

[kirb]

Hi Kelsey,
I am not sure if you have already resolved the initial question you had, so I figured I would throw in my two cents. I am a chicken owner and a local code and zoning officer for the town I live in. Your plan does not seem like anything crazy, so as others had mentioned, simply call and talk to your zoning and building officials. Most have office hours and if you were come come in with your plans, dimensions and questions, I am sure they would be willing to tell you what you needed to do.

Personally speaking, I would rather someone come and talk about their plans with me BEFORE they build, then have to call them and tell them to stop building, or worse case scenario, have to tell them that they need to take down their coop they had built. There are always state building codes and town setbacks from property lines that need to be considered and the town officials are the best people to talk to about those.

In my town, anything under 144 sqft does not need a permit and needs to be appropriately set back from property lines. Good luck.

 

[jimbob86]

One of the reasons I went the chicken tractor route was that it could not be construed as a "building" ..... so no building perit (and thus scrutiny by the County Assessor) involved!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Thank you both! I will have to ask.

I actually stopped thinking about it back then because nothing ever came of it but then around September I started thinking about them again for some reason.... and ordered them xD

So we now have them, they hatched October 26th, so almost 10 weeks old now, 8 now but I had 9.

For now theyre in a coop kit from TSC we got on Black Friday but we didn't know how small it was lol but we surrounded it with an old dog kennel we had and took the run off.

It's behind the house.

We're planning though to expand in the spring or sooner since it might be too small as adults