How does this look so far

[California Girls]

My husband didn't want to buy a ready made chicken coop. Here is his design "so far".
Our girls are 1 week old. they are so fun, and so cute.
I'm the proud mother hen.


Any suggestions would be great. We are newbies at this!

 

[ColoradoMike]

So far so good! Your coop has a similar profile as mine. I'm still a newb as well, but it looks great thus far!

Keep up posted

 

[chaoschicken]

It's looking good.

I'll just pull up a chair, grab some

and wait for more pictures.

Good luck building and may those chickies enjoy their new home.

And welcome to BYC!

 

[Garlydog]

Looks great! Can't wait to see the finished project.

 

[SimplyForties]

Looking good!

 

[Mahlzeit]

Great Start.

 

[Bellasmom]

Looks similar to my second tractor! I love the design!

 

[SoCalPeeps]

I'm new to this too and another "victim" of the Sunset magazine article that my wife read.

Also in Southern California in a tract house but a larger back yard then most. Our lot is somewhere shy of a half an acre. Much of the back yard is taken up by our pool area but somehow we managed to set asside enough area for our coop and run.

8 chicks to start, 4 rhode island reds and 4 silver wyandottes. One RIR died. Now at about 7 weeks it's clear one of the SLWs is a roo, the rest appear to all be hens.

I perused this site quite a bit gathering data for our coop. As I've never framed or roofed anything before so I needed all the help I could get. I'm pretty sure the finished product would pass inspection for an atomic shelter, perhaps I over did it a bit.

We got as much of the materials as possible from our habitat for humanity store but still ended up at Lowes more times then desired and spent quite a bit more then expected for the whole thing. somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 when all was said and done for the materials, feed and chicken accessories.

Now we have an $800 chicken prison to protect $14 worth of chickens!

Anyway, here's my page with coop progress and pictures for what it's worth.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=38201

BTW: Yours looks like a great start. Keep updating the pictures with the progress.

 

[Anny]

Looking good!

 

[mamahenny]