I am just about done with my chicken coop, and today was a beautiful day to work on it.
I am a building contractor and always have left over scaps of wood, siding, roofing etc,..so I figure I have an actual $160.00 into what I had to buy, and that was some 2x6's, a plexiglass windo and fence/posts.
Here are some pics of my coop, and even though it isn't anything grand and glorious....it will suit my needs.
A view from the front....the left portion was a old deer hunting blind I had back in the woods, so I brought it up and joined it to the newer structure. The deer blind was 4 x 6 and the newer structure (right) is 5 x 8.
View from the side entrance door....I'll be glad when my son gets that bed liner out of my place and back in his truck.
Opening up the screen door you can see a door to the smaller (deer blind) portion of the coop where the feeder and waterer is as well as the roosting perches.
Then opening up the second sreen door you can see all the way in.
My cousin gave me these nesting boxes.
Then directly above the nesting boxes I started making a brooder which uses dead space above the nest boxes that I didn't want the hens roosting on....it isn't quite done yet.
And since it was such a nice day I let the flock out for the first time and kept a watchful eye on them. They were having a ball.
Thanks for taking the tour of my cheap chicken condo.....
I am a building contractor and always have left over scaps of wood, siding, roofing etc,..so I figure I have an actual $160.00 into what I had to buy, and that was some 2x6's, a plexiglass windo and fence/posts.
Here are some pics of my coop, and even though it isn't anything grand and glorious....it will suit my needs.
A view from the front....the left portion was a old deer hunting blind I had back in the woods, so I brought it up and joined it to the newer structure. The deer blind was 4 x 6 and the newer structure (right) is 5 x 8.
View from the side entrance door....I'll be glad when my son gets that bed liner out of my place and back in his truck.
Opening up the screen door you can see a door to the smaller (deer blind) portion of the coop where the feeder and waterer is as well as the roosting perches.
Then opening up the second sreen door you can see all the way in.
My cousin gave me these nesting boxes.
Then directly above the nesting boxes I started making a brooder which uses dead space above the nest boxes that I didn't want the hens roosting on....it isn't quite done yet.
And since it was such a nice day I let the flock out for the first time and kept a watchful eye on them. They were having a ball.
Thanks for taking the tour of my cheap chicken condo.....
