Help me choose a Coop!!

[Cluckcluck1215]

Ummmm...ok. I have kids and animals and work full time in addition to rescuing animals. I will not apologize for paying a teenager $20 to clean cages and remove snow so he can supplement his allowance. Jeez!

You don't understand what I'm saying.These are pets and they should be your/family's responsibility.

 

[rileyslilhenz]

They list the dimensions as 6x10 on this one ... but that is the whole unit, not the coop. For eight hens you need the floor space of the coop to be 16 sq. feet minimum. Between the three you list, I'd go with the defender

Thank you for your help! I appreciate it!

 

[rileyslilhenz]

You don't understand what I'm saying.These are pets and they should be your/family's responsibility.

Your opinion has been noted

 

[Mace Gill]

Incidentally ... I have woodworking skills and am perfectly capable of building a coop. But after pricing the materials, I found buying one on a 'show special' at my local 4H was just as cheap and saved me the knuckle busting. I built the 10x20 run myself from an old canopy frame and a LOT of zip ties. It is WAY WAY more secure than it sounds and has stood tall for over three years now

 

[rileyslilhenz]

Incidentally ... I have woodworking skills and am perfectly capable of building a coop. But after pricing the materials, I found buying one on a 'show special' at my local 4H was just as cheap and saved me the knuckle busting. I built the 10x20 run myself from an old canopy frame and a LOT of zip ties. It is WAY WAY more secure than it sounds and has stood tall for over three years now
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Beautiful!!

 

[Mace Gill]

Part of what keeps it so secure is the broad cloth around the bottom ... firmly attached by hundreds of points ... trench 8" deep around the perimeter by myself and 'willing' 'volunteers' ... the attached broadcloth goes into the trench eight inches and curved outward at the bottom of the trench for an additional several inches and cinder bocks placed in the trench on top of the wire and the whole affair buried.

 

[Kiki]

I have someone willing to build me this coops for $900. What do you think of this??

Looks ok.
I would have them build this for 900...BUT make the coop part bigger.

 

[Kiki]

Give me a few minutes..someone recently posted a link to a site that offers FREE blue prints and material lists for coop.
BBIAF.

 

[Kiki]

I can't find the post I am looking for...
argh...

I was thinking that if you had actual blue prints and a material list you could price the material and see how much cheaper they are to build....and maybe your "builder" would have an easier time building one.
Ill keep an eye out for it.

 

[hlhutchinson]

Find a handy man and pay him to build it if your don't have the time to build your own. We look into coops and the pre build ones just did not have what we wanted them ones we could order that we're pre built and had everything we wanted was very very pricey so we are building a custom coop