I built this at the weekend

[ChickensAreSweet]

That is a really nice coop!!! Sounds like you have gotten some good feedback already.

I like the color too!

 

[Captain Carrot]

the green was buy one get one free. I bought 8 tins (paid for 4), so now I have 40 litres of the stuff. I'm planning on building at least two more coops this winter, so they'll all be this colour.

I was given a pot of white, red, and moss green today so I'll probably do a bit of a trim on the coops.

I've also cut out a kick ass cockerel stencil for the pop hole door. Painting is the funnest part of the build.

 

[Caddy-Corner-Chick]

I bought a dog house that is almost identical to this a few months ago, How are you planning on putting the roost in this??

I love shared ideas..lol

 

[Bleenie]

I think it's VERY cute! a small window on the front would look nice & like everyone said, cover the inside with hardware cloth/wire & hinge the window so you can open & close it as needed. Would be cool if you painted the Roo of the breed you'll be housing in the coop on the pop door.

 

[Captain Carrot]

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I'm not sure weather or not to take out the nestbox partition and just make one nest box or not. My idea was to put 2 roosts between this partition and the front panel.
I'll have to have a look after I've had a play with it. If I do take it out it'll be from back to front, one a tad higher than the other. It's only going to be for three welsummer bantams so I won't need that much roost space.

Bleenie, the stencil I have looks like a Welsummer, this is compared to the photos in my breed books. Will post a pic of it tomorrow.

 

[terrilhb]

Very nice

 

[Captain Carrot]

I had a couple of hours time today to work on the coop. I've added two windows, covered by welded wire mesh. Finished the run and did a bit more painting. What do you think?

pop hole

in the last pic, you can see i've used screws and washers to hold the mesh in place, I couldn't figure out how to fix it in place and make it look neat. Also if I need to take the mesh off it'll be easy with the screws.

All I have to do now is add a hinge to the front window and add runners for the sliding side window, add a roost or two and maybe remove a nest box or two.

I'm proud of my first coop

 

[Caddy-Corner-Chick]

I like the rooster stencil, I am considering doing something like that on my shed coop

 

[Captain Carrot]

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I found it online http://www.23hq.com/schabloni/photo/2246186

this is a cool one too

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/how-to-stencil-a-kitchen.htm