Crowber's Pandemic Coop - Carolina coop knockoff

[woodworm]

Excellent job - really impressed you've done it so quickly as well - it's taking me months!

I don't see any egg boxes? On the back?

 

[crowber]

Excellent job - really impressed you've done it so quickly as well - it's taking me months!

I don't see any egg boxes? On the back?

I had to build fast because I got the chicks first haha! I've literally been waking at 7 and working until 8pm frantically trying to get this done so I could get the chickens out of my living room.

The nest box will be on the back side, but I haven't built it yet. Will finish the run first and then tackle that.

 

[whitewood]

Hi Crowber,
Your coop looks wonderful. We just started rearing chicks 3 weeks ago and are looking to build our coop. I looked around and also love the Carolina Coop. Am thinking of building it too. My husband is the one with some basic wood skills and tools. I saw the pictures you post. They look great! I started off getting a coop plan from Esty.com (before I decide on Carolina Coop design) and was thinking of tweeting it from there to a Carolina Coop but it seems quite different. I wonder if you have a plan of your coop that you are okay to share with us? Thanks much!

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

Finished enough of the coop that I could stick my babies in it and get them out of my living room. The roof is on, the windows and all the crazy coop doors. Just need to finish the run screening, run door, and chicken ladder.

In retrospect, it would have been a bizillion times easier to put all the door hardware on when it was horizontal. There are 5 doors on one side! Looks slick, but boy is it a pain!

I had to get the polycarbonate custom cut for the windows, that ran me about 59 for all four windows. Totally didn't even consider that expense when I was planning.

Glad to have the girls in more space than a cardboard box. It was getting ridiculous having them in there, especially since one of the Jersey Giants is already ginormous. I did put their existing box in with them for their first night and I will take it out tomorrow.

Very nice, I dig it. But I've always wonder why people don't just build it larger. I mean, you've already committed yourself to hours upon hours with a project...... why not just go ahead and make it as big as you possibly can, within reason? It's not like it requires that much more effort or energy into it (for the most part), yes, a bit more expensive in the end but worth the energy and time put into the build!. Know what I mean?

 

[crowber]

Very nice, I dig it. But I've always wonder why people don't just build it larger. I mean, you've already committed yourself to hours upon hours with a project...... why not just go ahead and make it as big as you possibly can, within reason? It's not like it requires that much more effort or energy into it (for the most part), yes, a bit more expensive in the end but worth the energy and time put into the build!. Know what I mean?

I am in the city and limited to 6 chickens. This is plenty of square footage for 6. The coop house is 4*6 and the total run footprint is 6*12. Over 7 feet tall at the peak. It's hard to see the scale from the pics, but it's huge.

 

[crowber]

Hi Crowber,
Your coop looks wonderful. We just started rearing chicks 3 weeks ago and are looking to build our coop. I looked around and also love the Carolina Coop. Am thinking of building it too. My husband is the one with some basic wood skills and tools. I saw the pictures you post. They look great! I started off getting a coop plan from Esty.com (before I decide on Carolina Coop design) and was thinking of tweeting it from there to a Carolina Coop but it seems quite different. I wonder if you have a plan of your coop that you are okay to share with us? Thanks much!

I'll message you my SketchUp drawing. Though honestly if I had to do it again, id do things a bit differently. Simpler roof, simpler doors. I don't know that I'd recommend the build unless one has some experience building things like this and has a LOT of tools. This took me several weeks to build and I was working on it constantly, so if you already have chicks that will be going out soon you might want to find a simpler option like repurposing a cute shed/playhouse. Just want you to know what you're up against!

 

[rosemarythyme]

I had to build fast because I got the chicks first haha! I've literally been waking at 7 and working until 8pm frantically trying to get this done so I could get the chickens out of my living room.

The nest box will be on the back side, but I haven't built it yet. Will finish the run first and then tackle that.

Makes sense that you tackled the coop first, run next, then nests. I added my first nest box around 18 weeks maybe (I had taken out the default nest to expand roost space instead). Nest made it in with plenty of time for the pullets to explore and decide they liked it enough to lay in it.

 

[adamthomas]

Looks great. I’m working on plans for a Palace/Carolina coop hybrid. Simpler Palace style slant roof with Carolina Coop style clean out and nested doors. Same 6x12 footprint with 6 x4 hen house, 10x14 roof and 8 ft going to 7 ft tall from front to back. The goal is not to have to stoop while working in the run. Me not the chickens that is.

 

[whitewood]

I'll message you my SketchUp drawing. Though honestly if I had to do it again, id do things a bit differently. Simpler roof, simpler doors. I don't know that I'd recommend the build unless one has some experience building things like this and has a LOT of tools. This took me several weeks to build and I was working on it constantly, so if you already have chicks that will be going out soon you might want to find a simpler option like repurposing a cute shed/playhouse. Just want you to know what you're up against!

Thanks much for the drawing and your advice.

 

[New2COchicks]

Couple of pics from today. Almost got the roof on!

But don't do it like I did - I was copying the Carolina Coops roof with all it's notching, and I regret that so much. I should've just done a simpler roof, because all those notches added at least 2 days of work. Do not recommend.

What is that netting that is covering the outside and is a roof for the run? How did you attach the netting to the fence?