How long before you built your second coop?

[chicknerd]

Wow now I dont feel so bad.

I have a few months so I am going to try to make sure I have everything I want in it. I too bought a 4x6 nicely made by a local here in NH, thinking it would be big enough for them and the 11 I have in there are so crowded. They are only 10 weeks or younger, but I can see it getting way to small come winter. I have 14 birds, therefore I need 14x4=56 sf so a 10x10 walk-in should be fine. Gives me a little extra space.

 

[oldchickenlady]

well, I haven't started building my first coop yet! I originally planned on a 4x8 coop (4 ft tall by 4 ft wide by 8 ft long raised on 2 ft tall legs), but I am thinking that is going to be too small, since I have a rooster and there will eventually be chicks (I hope). My hubby has several sheets of 3/4" plywood in the garage that are just sitting there...I am going to confiscate them and make my coop. I think I will make it 8 ft wide x 8 ft long x 4 ft tall still raised on 2 foot 4x4's. I am going to have a drop down door in the back for cleaning. If I enlarge it to 8x8, then I wont have to make the nest boxes outside the coop and I should have enough roost space for everyone. The run is tall enough I can walk inside it to close the pop door. I could also make doors by the nesting boxes to get the eggs. If my rooster doesn't make it to adulthood (they free range during the day) then I can just do the 4x4x8 coop and that will be enough for just the hens.

 

[farmerKEN]

After a month I built an addition. After a year I built another addition. 4x4 to 4x8 then 4x8 three 4x4s in an L shape. I am now "done" expanding my flock.

 

[Tomhusker]

Finished my first coop the day after Memorial Day. Started my second coop last Monday. What is that, two, three weeks?

 

[PineappleMama]

Well, we can't have any more chickens... only four, which is the 4 GLSs in our coop, finished in May... and YET there are two BR/EE girls? in my shower as we speak... so there ya go.

Also, may be building a bunny enclosure come August...

DD says "I want to live on a farm SOOOOO much" and DH says "You already Do"

Boy but I love that man.

 

[Morgan7782]

I had a 2 x 4 ft coop, swore up and down I would only be having two hens...

Ha. Ha. Ha. YEAH RIGHT!

I will be getting my second coop from a WONDERFUL lady, and my 2 x 4 coop will be for integrating and brooding purposes. I won't have a lot more hens, but probably 1-2 more.

hahaha I will post in 2 months with "I got MORE and am turning my entire backyard into a coop!" hahaha.

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

I'm so glad I'm not the only "crazy" one. My girls are about 3 months old and I enlisted my hubby to help me build a 6x6 A-frame tractor. He says he's done with the chickens...but I'm already thinking about a bigger coop.

 

[tinabrat1]

we purchased our first chicken last april, they went in a renovated old coop from my childhood...it was about 6 months before we bought a tiny coop for a few bantams....they quickly grew out of that so.....about 2 months ago we bought a 10x 10 childrens playhouse and converted it into a hen house....moved the large breed chickens into that...moved the bantams in to the old chicken coop....wow it looks like we have an empty mini-coop....what shall I get to put into that one??

 

[Thomas423]

We started on our 2nd coop before the 1st one was finished. LOL On our 3rd coop now.
Keep building.

 

[sgtmom52]

Three years for me. First was the 8x8 foot coop now we are working on the 12x14 foot one. We are hoping to have the chicks in it within the next few days and get them out of the brooder boxes in the pole building. We still have to build the wire wall inside to divide it into 2 sides and a storage area. I painted the inside blue yesterday with a spray gun and ended up looking like a Smurf! Then I still have to paint the outside and build the dual runs.