How crazy would we be to put our coop & pen right next to our bedroom?

[ChickensAreSweet]

If you haven't poured your concrete yet, you could have a go at it with no concrete slab at first. Then move the coop if you don't like the location.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

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I have a coop and pen right outside my bedroom window. Why? Because I

the sound of crowing roosters! When our first pen went up, it went up right outside my bedroom window. So if you love to listen to the crow of your roosters, I say go for it!!

Awww I just saw you're only going to have 3 hens. That's no fun! LOL!!

Laurie

 

[Ohhhdear]

I'd agree with holding off on pouring the concrete until you've lived with the coop against the house for at least one summer. If the noise, smell & flies don't bother you, then go ahead and make it more permanent.

However, you should also look into the building codes for your area. You may not be able to pour a slab that close to the house for an outbuilding. In some locales, you have to have so many feet between the house and an outbuilding if it's on a slab. Also, if you pour concrete, you may have to have a building permit, which means an inspection and possibly higher property taxes.

 

[tuesdays chicks]

If you're going to stick to 3 hens, and will have the opportunity to clean them out everyday I don't see a problem keeping them next to the house, but if you're anything like me ... the plan was for 2 hens ... hence I got 5 unsexed chicks 2 were roos I got rid of down to 3 pullets adopted a lame laying hen that makes 4, then I couldn't resist someone giving away green hatching eggs now I have the original 4, 4 10 week old chicks and 11 quail. looks around for dh

but if you aren't like me sure you'll do ok near the house.

 

[gryeyes]

Go for it. If the concrete slab is already there, that is. Otherwise, check out the building codes for where you live, first.

But, as for looking down on the coop? Man, I'd love to be able to do that! My chicken run is very close to my bedroom window, but the coops - yes, plural: coops - are a tad bit further away. My chickens range freely on the property, so I hear crowing and clucking and lovely chicken sounds all over the place when they're out.

I have several roosters. Their crowing from inside a coop at night or really early in the morning isn't deafening.

And as someone else has said, if you get flies and mites and poop odor inside your house from a close exterior coop, you're doing something wrong. No, wait, flies happen. But the rest? Pshaw.

Do NOT be surprised, though, if some day a chicken is looking in your bedroom window from the outside sill. If that is a possibility that pleases you, forge onward! (I'd love it.)

 

[Lisa202]

I put my coop and run just outside my bedroom window. It was the most practical place to put it...every other place would have been way up in the back and between dealing with snow and letting them out every morning, I knew closer was more convenient. I have 9 hens and 1 roo and love the sound of his crowing in the morning. Sometimes he even crows at 3am. I love waking up to the birds and now I get to wake up to the chickens.

I just only got them as chicks in Sept., so I haven't spent a hot summer with them yet, so I don't know what is to come with smell and flies. But there are all sorts of solutions for all sorts of problems so I will deal with whatever my chickens throw at me. Heck, I have a kitty litter box in my dining room and when it gets smelly (and holy crap it does) I do what I have to do. I figure I just have to keep up on my maintenance...which is a good thing.

I think if chicken smells were to bother you, you wouldn't be having chickens in the first place.

 

[crawfordmama]

Our coop is less than 20 feet from our bedroom, and our bed is placed against a window. I wouldn't have it any other way! I only have 7 chickens (for now!), so odor isn't an issue because I can easily keep up with the mess. I can see and hear what they're up to in the run. It also helps me to sleep at night knowing that if a predator were to cause an issue, I'd be able to hear the ruckus and go out to the coop promptly rather than find a bloody mess in the morning. Admittedly, the first month of the summer I was uneasy at night, because I thought every little noise was a predator prowling. The only other issue I had, which it sounds like you won't, is when my rooster figured out how to crow. He began crowing at 3 am every day for a month. He now crows at 4:30, and at this point, I can drown it out until I'm ready to get up. I say go for it. I think you'll enjoy having them so close. If you ever happen to sleep in, maybe you'll awake to an egg song.

 

[drumstick diva]

Have you checked zoning laws in your area, I believe some do not allow a coop too close to the wall of a house. Also insurance companies usually consider a coop a fire hazzard and don't want them near living space. Also think about the future. Maybe 3 chickens are tolerable but, you WILL become addicted, and well, chicken math was a way of taking over. Would you still be happy if the 3 chickens morphed into 30 outside your bedroom??

 

[Miss Lydia]

our coop is about 10' from our house and we have 2 roosters, I like them close that way our dogs keep all predators away, plus I like to her their happy noises!

 

[Maureen&chickens]

We just moved our coop and run to about 6' away from our bedroom. It's fun listening to them during the day. Not always so fun on weekends though when they're up at dawn knocking on the coop door to be let out!