my first Coop I ever built

[IBmikmaq]

My Coop is 4 feet wide by 8 feet and 6 and half feet tall at tallest side and 5 half feet at the shortest side!

I made with scrap lumber and some new lumber.

I dont know the measurement of my run but I open it every morning and my chickens just run free all day and go in at night to roost so I close the gate and lock them in the Coop at night.



I took an old garbage bin and flipped it upside down and put a roof on it as a shelter for the step ladder coming down, there is a little attic and a few roost for outside roosting as well.




two main nest boxes each with two nest boxes inside



I covered bottom with wood to break the snow from blowing in for winter months so they have a place to run around in when the snow gets deep!




windows up high for ventilation, some old basement windows I found laying around.




nest boxes from inside coop




coop is 2 feet off ground so they can use underneath when snow is heavy in my yard!




I will paint it sometime soon!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Looks good! Hope all goes well!

 

[IBmikmaq]

thank you!

I forgot to mention I tripled the chicken fencing along the bottom of the run and buried it a foot deep all along outside of run including round coop and then filled it with cement all around entire coop including under door so nothing is digging underneath it.

 

[JanetS]

Very nice. Your chickens look happy!

 

[Kernel Cluck]

Nice use of scrap wood. I wish i had spent more time trying to repurpose stuff. Great job.

 

[IBmikmaq]

Thanks everyone for your nice comments! I think my chickens are very happy! They get to run free around my property everyday from morning till night! I am going to plant a number of plants and bushes that they can forage from in my back yard that is mostly an over grown field anyways!

 

[Qalupalik]

Looks fantastic!