My new coop... pix heavy!

[timvdo]

Coop is modeled after “The Coop Deville By Landis Farm” https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-coop-deville-by-landis-farm
Main coop is 8x8x6
Total run area is 8x25
There was no plan or blue print of any kind, just a few pictures from the above link. I added more windows above the nesting box, automatic chicken door opener, pipe feeder and 5gal bucket water with vertical nipples. All plans and building skills were learned from BYC and youtube videos.

50% building materials were brought new... the other 50% were from the 70% pile from Home Depot.
$70 for all windows from restore store.
Automatic chicken coop door $185
Total cost ~ $1500
Time and cost were all underestimated.

Thank you to BYC community for all the ideas and support!




Completed date: June 15, 2014



Feb 28, 2014 It was just a simple trip to TSC, but we came home with these cuties...


A place that we picked from our backyard.

Countless trips to the home improvement stores.


April 15, 2014




lots of rain delayed during the Spring season...


Roof is up, and I didn't have to hide my tools any more.














The chicks were getting too big for the brooder inside the house... so I built a temp box...


and run while they wait for their permanent home to complete.























June 28, 2014. Exactly 4 months later, we got our very first eggs.

 

[N F C]

What a beautiful coop! Your construction is so well done, are you a professional builder? Love the color (and envy your automatic door, lol). Those are some lucky girls to have such a fine house. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mahlzeit]

Great looking coop and run! I love the tree you have in the run for your chickens to sit on. Awesome Job!!

 

[timvdo]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments

Just an update on the coop:
Coop has been working great so far. 10 nest boxes are a little over kill for a flock of 13 hens and 1 rooster. I've decided just to use 1 side of 5-nest box. And the other side for food storage.

 

[JaceAgain]

beautiful!!!!

 

[aart]

Sweet!!

 

[Eggsoteric]

Very nice! Love the color!

 

[mikedonna]

Nice coop job well done the chickens will be very happy

 

[kittykitty30]

That is a beautiful coop! Good luck with your ladies!

 

[tcstoehr]

That's pretty darn sweet. Definitely some skills involved. I like the ventilation in the coop area.
Evidently you haven't been visited yet by a particularly nasty sort of raccoon. These guys will reach through the sort of wire I see in your pictures and grab chickens by neck, pull their heads through the wire, and you can guess what happens next. I don't want you to be the next person posting on the Predators forum asking about decapitated chickens. Even though your chickens have room to get away from raccoons at the fence line, they can easily be panicked into bad positions, particularly when multiple raccoons are involved. The standard "go to" preventive measure for this is to secure a 2' wide strip of 1/2" hardware cloth at ground level all the way around the run.