Help by posting pics of your rabbit hutch conversion into a coop.

[Mrs. Green Thumbs]

I need some ideas on how to convert my used rabbit hutch into a chicken coop. I will post pics in the AM but for now it's one of those large hutches that is about shoulder height with a slanted roof and the 2 sides plus the front and bottom are all wire. The lady I bought it from claimed she kept her chicken's in there... i was surprised.. I was under the assumption it was hard on their feet to be on wire. I plan on enclosing the entire coop. Some linoleum on the floor, and possibly laying boxes attached to the back so we can have easy access to the yummy egg's. I'm just looking for ideas about how to go about re purposing this hutch to work as a coop. I'm thinking about installing a window as well. I really just need to SEE what yall may have done with yours for a bit of inspiration and what you would have done differently. I want to give my girls a roost too so... yah lol

 

[Mrs. Green Thumbs]

Well we got the coop home yesterday... we ran all the way out to where it was and had to turn around come all the way across town back to our house to take the camper shell off the back of the pickup then turn around and go right back... ugh. Any way's we unloaded it in the far back of the yard and I ran for the camera just in time because the rain began to pour just as I finished taking these pic's... so without further ado here is the future coop.

Geez... IDK if the coop is crooked or the ground.... I think it's the ground. I'm thinking of making this the back covering with wood and attaching 2 nest boxes with hinge lid's for easy egg retrieval.

Also that way the rain will run the opposite way of the egg boxes.

here's the little make shift door, I'm planning on doing away with it entirely

The chicken wire (metal and plastic alike) will come down and be covered in wood

I'm going to cover the gaps up here with something to keep critters out.

I think I'll just salvage the hardware from this door and turn the now back side of the coop into the front but I'm thinking of making the entire front wall on hinges so I can just swing the front wall down and clean out the coop. Easy peasy lemon squeasy.

 

[BriteChicken]

It's got great bones

and I think a window is in order also. I personally have the bottom of my coop as hardware clothe but I'm a newbie and haven't seen how my chicks will do on it yet since they are only three weeks old... I didn't make my coop out of a hutch but a crate so no suggestions on the coop front sorry...

What are the dimensions of the hutch and how many chickens are you planning? are you planning on free ranging or building a run for them too?

 

[Mrs. Green Thumbs]

My girls will have to have a run, our yard is not secure and open to the ally so yah gotta have a super secure run for my girls. The coop dimensions... can't even begin to guess, when we got it home it was just about to rain but if it's sunny when I get home I'll make a note of what the measurement's are. I have 5 chicks, 1 is sick, and 1 may or may not be a roo so I'm betting on 3 but planning for 4 hen's. 1 RIR, named Rose. 2 BR named Lilly and Violet. and 2 EE's named Jasmin and Stripy.

 

[Mrs. Green Thumbs]

Oh and I was thinking of putting in a window and maybe... just maybe a sky light.

 

[gunny]

I have four 12 week old hens in a converted rabbitt hutch. I have the wire floor with no issues. My coop pretty much looks like your pictures and though it is only temporary It has worked great as is for the last month.. My girls get let out every day to roam and head back in at night.. It seems to be plenty of space for them but they are not full grown yet.