New Chicken coop

[U_Stormcrow]

How would this work out?
file:///C:/Users/alexs/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp1_large-chicken-coop-plans-73081569.zip/large-chicken-coop-plans/garden-shed-plans-8x8.pdf

If I had access to your local drive, you would have a bigger problem than a need for a chicken coop. How about a better link?

 

[3KillerBs]

since lumber comes in 8ft lengths, you’ll be buying 8ft boards and cutting them to length to make your 64” wide coop.

This.

It's almost always easiest to plan your building in multiples of 4" because that's how lumber and sheet goods come.

The exception is using 6-foot sections, where you can buy 12-foot boards and cut them in half.

BTW, a lot of chicken coops with 5-foot dimensions in them are actually 4-feet wide with another foot of nest boxes. Nest boxes don't count in the square footage.

 

[aart]

I would do 8x8 but that seems really big and expensive plus If I give each bird 4 sqft of space inside the coop, that's 16 chickens! way too many.

It wouldn't be 'too big'...and don't get stuck on the 4sqft thing.
You may be glad for the storage space and then have space for more birds down the road.

 

[3KillerBs]

BTW, a lot of chicken coops with 5-foot dimensions in them are actually 4-feet wide with another foot of nest boxes. Nest boxes don't count in the square footage.

PS -- I noted this in my rules of thumb

• If it looks like a dollhouse it's only suitable for toy chickens.
• If it's measured in inches instead of feet it's too small.
• If your walk-in closet is larger than the coop-run combo you're thinking of buying think carefully about whether you have an utterly awesome closet or are looking at a seriously undersized chicken coop.
• If it has more nestboxes than the number of chickens it can legitimately hold the designer knew nothing about chickens' actual needs and it probably has other design flaws too.

 

[3KillerBs]

It wouldn't be 'too big'...and don't get stuck on the 4sqft thing.
You may be glad for the storage space and then have space for more birds down the road.

The great thing with extra space is the flexibility you get from it.

You can throw up dividers to separate problem birds.

You can add brooders, integration pens, and/or broody breakers.

You can keep your tools and supplies right there where the chickens are.

etc.

 

[DickMidnight]

If your walk-in closet is larger than the coop-run combo you're thinking of buying think carefully about whether you have an utterly awesome closet or are looking at a seriously undersized chicken coop.

i feel personally attacked every time you post this haha

 

[Alex S]

If I had access to your local drive, you would have a bigger problem than a need for a chicken coop. How about a better link?

Oh hahaha

https://www.construct101.com/large-chicken-coop-plans-step-step/
If you want the PDF it's free, you just have to add it to cart, and then proceed to checkout

 

[3KillerBs]

i feel personally attacked every time you post this haha

The best way to visualize the space one hen needs in the coop and in the run is to imagine a bathmat next to the ordinary 5-foot tub/shower unit you get in a manufactured home's guest bathroom.

An ordinary bathmat is about 4 square feet. The tub/shower unit is 10 square feet.

 

[Alex S]

If I had access to your local drive, you would have a bigger problem than a need for a chicken coop. How about a better link?

 

[Alex S]