Hello, from S. Central Pennsylvania!

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ChikadeeLite

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I‘m pretty new to chicken care, I’m actually looking into a good coop. I have the other materials because I’m into researching these things. So I don’t have any, I’m trying to actually get some and need help with finding a coop.

I want to honestly get into chicken care because a) I love animals, and as a result I‘m into their care deeply, I try my best to give my animals I do have the best and b) because I don’t like commercial eggs. I don’t like how chickens are treated in commercial care, so I want to raise my own and reduce the need to use commercially bought eggs.

I’m into art, I love writing and drawing, as well as animals. I had three animals: had 2 dogs (one died unfortunately) and a cat. I have 3 siblings and I’m going into a Masters degree in a year. I’m choosing still the path I want, but I’m currently a Public Health Major, not yet graduated, but I have time to decide.

I found this site when I tried looking at coops, actually. I want the best I can give a chicken, and I had bad feelings about prefab, but I’m not very good at construction. So I’m still looking for a pen for 4 chIckes with a run, for someone that’s never built anything from scratch. I’m very new though, so I’m still searching for advice, anything would be nice.
 
sourland said:
Hello, and welcome to BYC. You might want to consider an Amish made coop rather than a prefab.
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Where can I find a place that makes them? I’ve been thinking about buying one Amish made because (quite frankly) I’ve never built something from scratch before, but I don’t like any of the prefab ones because they *look* small to me.

Is there a preferred place that I can buy at?
 
pennyJo1960 said:
Welcome to Backyard Chickens. Have you thought buy a shed add a chicken door nest boxes and a roost.
Windows covered by hardware cloth.?
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I was also thinking that, I’m not very...good at construction? But that was another option I was leaning to.

I was thinking of buying a used or small garden shed and attaching a dog kennel? i can’t free roam, because thats illegal in my area. But that was the other general idea I had, since I’m bad at building a building and I don’t trust myself due to general inexperience.

But yeah, mostly I was thinking of adding nest boxes and roosts, I have been looking into a few for a while because I also didn’t like the original roosts they had in prefab coops
 
You're in a beautiful area! My family lived in Union County for a few years whh I was young and I still miss it sometimes.

It's usually much easier to modify something than build from scratch. A shed coop would be a fairly good intro, especially if you know someone you could borrow tools from. Lots of info here and on YouTube to get started. You can do it!
 

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