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[2txmedics]

Hey if it works DO NOT KNOCK IT!!!! Recycled coops are the BEST!!!!! not to mention you can get creative on how to build it gives you more of an accomplishment. I really love some of the beautiful awesome coops that are store bought or look elegant or that cost over 1,000 BUT...I dont know if I would like that...

i like the more country rustic back to basic coops...DONT GET ME WRONG ALL YOU BEAUTIFUL COOPS...

They are awesome and I say, awwh I wish I could have one...but there is no way...Im not a fancy woman...

 

[Kieyamama]

What's redneck in other places is "green" in Oregon!

Same in NorCal!

 

[Ladyhawke1]

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Sorry, I do not mean to hi jack here…but

Darlin’ I just got here and read your post. My heart goes out to you. I am not an experienced builder either. Neither am I very strong. I always did plan on having chickens…but I did not plan on getting old and having a stroke.

I got my four chicks in March. In May, I had a “small” stroke and was schedule for immediate surgery. I live by myself…who was going to take care of my babies? They were still in the house and rapidly out growing their brooder.

So before surgery…I quickly slammed together a Fort Knox for them. I, by myself…me ….and… I all by my lonesome.

It’s not that anyone else wouldn’t help….they were just all working and had their own families to worry about. They were kind enough to come over every day to check on my flock and feed my other animals and that was a god send for me. I had food and water already setup for the birds, all they had to do was count four little heads and report to me that they were still alive.

I was in the hospital for more than a week.

I have raccoons here in the city and I had to make sure that my four girls were safe when I would not be here. Fortunately, I guess I did "good" because this has worked very well ever since.

The “PEN”, it “ain’t” pretty. But money and strength are very scare right now, however we do prevail.

I let my sweet big fat butt girls out every morning. They crack me up. People think that chickens are stupid and not very smart…ohhhhhh…but they are. Because of my unconventional building method…they have to enter from the top of a two-foot high run and not a side entrance.

The last few nights as the sun slowly sets in the west….my little darlings come to the back door to harass me. It is about six o’clock and they want to go to “bed”. It’s night-night time and they are tired and want to go to the safe place to sleep. When I go outside, I find Jessie, the Jersey Giant, clucking to herself and pacing back and forth in the pen. There is no food or water in there yet until I set it up for the night. “She” is ready for bed.

I go outside and start putting the water and food back in the pen. Then Binkie and Sheba, who are both Australorps, run and get in the pen with Jessie. Lazy little Morgan, my Partridge Cochin, also known as Miss fuzzy “feets”, wants me to lift her up and “put” her in the pen. Once in the pen, they all stand there looking up at me for the “treats” that they know are coming. I have to watch all this and keep the giggles to myself. What good babies I have.

I intend to upgrade their “digs” and I will try to make it look as nice as I can. However, their safety is my first concern. Soon they will be able to walk and enter the pen from ground level and not have to jump in from the top.

I wish you the best of luck on your building efforts.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

You haven't seen nothing yet! A while back we had 3 threads running at the same time about Ugly coops!

First there was Wayne's
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=136464

Then this one by Kelly G
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=138385

Then mine
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=138461

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Sometimes the harder you work at it the worse it gets..........

 

[Country Heart]

Ugly coops give me hope. I'm thinking about expanding my girls facilities and I think I can probably come up with something functional, even if it isn't fancy.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Boy, this is my sort of thread. I have seriously ugly coops, and y'all give me hope. I though my chickens would start boycotting if they ever say how the other birds live, there are just so many nice coops here.

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

 

[2txmedics]

Heres my latest one I did today real quick...until DH can built me a coop house of some sorts, nothing compared to my MAIN COOP....

This kennel run is so messed up, door doesnt close good, theres a gap, I tied wood onto it for now, til DH can figure it out for me...

 

[Highhorse]

I have an older 1 I want to repair & start using soon. Right after we bought the palce it was devastated by a hailstorm and I am in the process of rebuilding everything. The inside is completely empty.
Any pointers for success welcomed !
Jim