In Hindsight, One Thing You Would Have Added To Coop Design

[ColoradoMike]

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For you or the chickens? My pullets developed an appreciation for fine red wines.

For me, of course - we don't want pickled eggs!

 

[tomato lady]

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I have room for a chair, but how do I keep chickens and chicken poop off? My coop is big and I like to sit in there and watch them go to bed at night. 31 chickens all trying for the best spot on the perch. What fun!

I wish I had electricity and water but the building already existed and I am remodeling it. Considering a very long hose and maybe a solar light or two.

 

[toletiquesbysam]

Electricity would be great! Winter is going to be a learning period for me, praying for a mild winter!!!

 

[Renee]

One BYC member put a chair peg up pretty high and hung the chair. Very clever. If it's a folding chair even better- they can't fly up to it.

I use a plastic chair and turn it over.

For my coop design: I wish I had an automatic pop-hole closer.

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

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My husband agrees 110%.

Would make it a lot bigger. Once you get into the chicken thing you will definitely will want more. Electricity and water would be great. A small shed area to keep supplies and keep other critters from having access to feed, etc.

Sandee

 

[edselpdx]

I have room for a chair, but how do I keep chickens and chicken poop off? My coop is big and I like to sit in there and watch them go to bed at night. 31 chickens all trying for the best spot on the perch. What fun! lol

I keep a folding chair hung up in the run so I can sit and "commune with the chickens" in the evenings. I've been whispering to them about laying, and Artemis rewarded me with my first egg today (woo-hoo).

But, back to the topic...
1. My chicken ramp is too steep (or the "rungs" are too far apart?)--they just flap their way up.
2. Built-in storage area for the galvanized trash cans of food and litter.
3. I love my totally welded-wire covered chicken run; I don't have to worry about being home at dusk to lock the girls in. The Fort Knox of chicken runs. I don't even close the coop now in the summer, but will as the weather cools off.​

 

[Karrie13]

I would love to have electricity out there. Lights. Power outlet for heated water. More head room (one side is 6 ft the other is 4 ft, tired of hitting my head.

 

[BeccaOH]

I'd give myself more space for more chickens in separate pens/rooms.

I'd have installed electricity, which was always the plan but never finished. I run an extension cord from the garage.

 

[Quillgirl]

A chicken-proof cabinet for feed and supplies. They roost on the one I have.

Bigger. But then the small size of mine keeps my compulsion to collect in check.

Electricity, but I have a couple of solar lights. Water I solved with a rain barrel and gutter on the shed roof. Plenty o water now, but it's not pressurized, so doesn't work for spraying out a coop. Just the basics.

An "air lock" on the people door side. A pullet escaped once and was immediately snatched up by a watchful hawk. I will probably construct something in the next months.

 

[Renee]

Oh yeah! A second area for sick/new chickens!