Need unique ideas for Tractor coop!

[osukrazykate]

I am wanting to make a tractor/mobile coop, but I can't decide how exactly I would like it to look. I have thought about one looking like a gypsy wagon (saw a pic of one online), or one that mimics our home, or one that looks like a victorian house. Anybody else have some really unique ideas of how one could look, pics are a plus too if you have any.

Kate

 

[RHewitt]

Here's mine. It is small but works great as a grow up pen.

 

[Spires6]

Here's ours. It is easy to move and has held up well in the two worst wind storms that I have ever seen. We use portable electric fence around it. The nest boxes and feeders hang on the wall.

 

[DarkWolf]

Love the gypsy wagon idea!

Thinking the utilitarian bow top style, or the more embellished ones?

 

[osukrazykate]

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Yeah, I am thinking of one that looks artistic, probably not so bow top that might be too hard to shape the wood for the roof. Something pretty to look at while yet functional.

 

[Emzyyy]

LOL it would be cute to make Snoopy's dog house, or just some random item shapped coop like a banana shapped coop!

 

[English Chick]

You could paint it Tudor colours Black & White.... or paint it white all over then stencil in growing Ivy over it.... the ideas are endless...good luck!

 

[willheveland]

This might be good for about 4 or so.You didn't give a number. Will

 

[osukrazykate]

So I have a main coop, that is around 8' x 10', that I am fencing in their own yard for this coop next to the garden that will also be fenced in and they will have occasional access to when I want them to work the garden over. However, I have 26 chicks and 12 more on the way. I have them in two different brooders and I am not sure I will have enough room in the main coop that came with our house (we bought this house from hubby parents and coop hasn't been used in years) so I am thinking of adding a second coop that is a tractor coop for overflow or for a separate breed (I have bantams, Ameracauna (sp), & Barred Rock). So I am trying to think of something that is kind of artistic, pretty, moveable, and yet functional.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

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Love that furry chicken you have there, lol!!! The coop's not bad either!!