Lets hear it for the LADIES who build their own coops!

[BellLisamo]

I know you all are out there (or i missed you, ive only been here for a few months), anywho, how many of you GALS build your own coop?

I just started 3 different coops today. One for my teens, and the other 2 are for my adults.

I'll add pics tomorrow


But lets give it up for the ladies for doing their own coops!!!!


whoop whhooooppp

oh and please add pics!!!

 

[FrenchHen]

I built a meat tractor using stuff I found around our property. The only thing I bought myself was the feed, and I used the bag for the roof.

 

[BellLisamo]

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sounds like me!!! i pick up free pallets and use them to build the whole coop!!! i use scraps around the yard to build other stuff and our neighbor lets us take anything in his yard.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Here's mine. I've done them all myself. Mostly with salvage at that. Hubby bought me a miter box for Valentines day!!

Playhouse coop. Now the bobwhite house.

Dog house coop inside the dog 10x10 run.

New brooder coop for quail.

My main coop. It's ugly but cost lest than $100 for a 8x8 coop. that was for roofing and screws. All the rest is scrap

I doesnt look like this on the inside no more.

I'm still working on a Quail flight pen and chicken tractor to save my garden.

 

[FrenchHen]

One of our tenants vacated the barn and found about a hundred feet of 2 foot high chicken wire!

The scrap wood laying around was enough that I didn't have to use a saw.

Those things make me nervous. I can use them safely, but prefer not to.

 

[KattyKillFish]

i ALWAYS use scraps! they work, they're everywhere and best of all they're free!
i spent a total of 0$ on my coop, and soon i'll have a bigger run thanks to a friend who's giving me his leftover lumber

 

[BellLisamo]

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I dont use a saw either, i try to find the perfect size before i start or work with it. My hubby has build 2 coops and of course they are 1000 times better than mine, but i find it fun to build them myself. I love it. What about you?


Your coops rock! Here are the 2 my hubby built, ill take my pics of mine tomorrow!

 

[GardeNerd]

I am about done with my coop. And yes, I am a lady. Actually, when I was in college I was in a Medieval Historical group called the Society for the Creative Anachronism (SCA) and in it, I actually was given the title of Lady... Still am a lady, I just wear overalls more often than dresses now.

I have to put the hardware back on, but that is about it. I also finished a new picket fence and arbor, today, too. I didn't take any pics today because I had to go make dinner before it got too late; I am also still a house wife. I also built/ converted a rabbit hutch to a tractor last month. One advantage of me doing it, I get to make all the stuff as "girlie" looking as I want. There are flowers painted on the back of the tractor.

These pics are of the unfinished petite city coop from last weekend before painting and during.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20741_100_1763.jpg
Painted lemon yellow to match our house and lilac purple doors just because. My eight year old painted a mural inside it today. I'll take a pic of it tomorrow.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20741_100_1910.jpg

The tractor:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20741_100_1866.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20741_100_1874.jpg

 

[FisherMOM]

I more or less built mine. I did build my duck coop.

had to give my ducks away last weekend though. I have a herniated disk and have surgery April 6th. Hopefully I will heal up enough to make the chicken run new and improved this summer! I want it to be taller! and Bigger!

Hubby helped with the chicken run.. but only because..well, I really don't KNOW why. I did the inside of the coop except the pop doors.. he would not let me make them.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=10071-Run_and_Coop

 

[KattyKillFish]

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wow, lucky! i would jsut love to run into that much wire!
also, i wish i had a saw. i work with "big boy" tools alot, but it never bothered me. remember, if you trust the machine, the machine will trust you!