Looking for pictures of inside YOUR coops...

[ella]

Here ya go!

Exterior front...

...and rear

The interior is two large (6' x 4') rooms on either end and one small (3' x 2') room straight ahead. The feed is in the bins on the left.

The large rooms are identical - mirror images if ya want to get tecnical

Inside of one large room looking across to the other, the small room is on the right.

I really like the heater set-up. It's so nice in the winter!

 

[slystr]

Dang Ella, that's one mean coop! Beautiful!

 

[Southern Chickens]

ELLA!

WOW!!!!!! That's a very beautiful chicken condo! Calling it a coop just wouldn't do it justice. In the 3rd picture, you have a flashlight on the wall. Isn't it the best one ever? I use mine for candleing the eggs and everything else. I haven't built my chicken coop yet. Love the ideas that I'm getting.

 

[AccidentalFarm]

Looks like the chicken version of The Four Seasons! Very, very nice!

On edit: I notice linoleum on the floors..I plan to do the same, seems it would be easier to clean than bare wood.

 

[Varisha]

Ella,
I love your coup

Can you get close up pictures of the coup doors for the chikens. They look nice and I want to figure out how they work

and what/how they are made of.

 

[Lunachick]

Wowsers! What a set-up. This is a great idea posting pictures of coops. I'm getting lots of ideas! More please!

 

[ella]

Thanks all for the compliments! My father and 2 brothers work in construction so I felt I just had to give them a challenge.

As requested, here are some more pics of the doors.

They are just regular storm doors set on a sliding tract. Here is a close up of the tract.

I got both the doors and the hardware at Menards.

The roosts are melaminine shelves that can be adjusted or removed for cleaning and replacement.

I use a cheap plasic trowel for scraping the roosts then I spritz them with bleach water and scrape them again, it takes about 2 minutes. The black stuff on the wall is plastic sheets.


Hey Southernchick I candle eggs with that flashlight too! Next to it is a headlamp flashlight which is also very handy.

I do have linolium floors and it's much easier to clean than the wood floors I used to have. I also installed drains in the floor so I can hose the whole thing out in the spring when I clean.

 

[Saltiena]

heres my coop now i didn't fix it up yet and it hasn't been used in like a hundred years, really we live in an old farm house that is 100s of years old, so is the chick coop
heres what the out side is like

 

[FrozenChicken]

Here is a picture of mine. It's 12' X 16" originally but added an addition 8' X 12" at the front. It's built with 2"X4" walls sheeted with OSB. Some old trailer windows salvaged with homemade window frames. I insulated it with R12 pink insolation .The inside is sheeted with 1" X 4"s and is wired for lights. I house about 80 birds and when it's -40 o Celcuis outside the tempurture never goes below 10o Celcuis inside the building pretty good I must say

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

ella, there's a problem when your coop looks nicer than my house!