New to Chickens from Boise, ID!

[mcd0713]

Hi there! I stumbled upon backyard chickens while trying to plan out my first time coop, and this site is an awesome wealth of information!

We will be first time chicken owners. I've always wanted chickens, but with my husband's job we moved too much to have a real flock! Now that we've been in Idaho and are settled (and my youngest is 3, and we own our house, etc), I'm so excited to start chickens this year! I want to do it right from the start, so I've been browsing the site looking for solid coop ideas. We have almost an acre of land, so we are pretty fortunate in terms of space, but I'm thinking of converting a playhouse or something similar into our coop (we are not particularly handy, but we are determined). If any other PNW/Boise chicken owners have any suggestions, please let me know! I think we will probably have 4 chickens or so to start (I know Boise limits chickens to 6). We would have loved to have gone pre-fab, but from all the comments I've read on the site, it looks like that's not a great option.

 

[Kiki]

Welcome to BYC.
We are glad you joined this flock!
Jump right in and make yourself at home.

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[Meg-in-MT]

Hello! Welcome to BYC!!

Good luck on your build/buy. Good choice not to go with a prefab. The little bitty ones, anyway. What kind of chickens are you getting?

Feel free to check out the links below for some interesting reading.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC! Good luck on your build.

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Miss Piggy Sue says, “Welcome to our eggcelent flock here at BYC!”

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal community! Best wishes and have lots of fun on your new chicken adventure!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Good choice building something of your own for your coop.
Do you know what breeds you want?

 

[ronott1]

This is the perfect place to learn about raising chickens and other poultry

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Nice to meet you
Welcome to Backyard Chickens

 

[fldiver97]

Welcome! Glad you decided to join us Have you considered converting a shed? I have 10 thumbs and converted an old existing wooden shed into a large coop and put some windows and roosts, nesting boxes and a pop door in, then attached a walk in dog kennel with a roof, covered the chain link with hardware cloth. After almost 10 years the ancient shed started to fall apart, roof leaked but it served its purpose well and I managed to do all the work myself. I considered buying a new shed and converting it but then found a local fellow that builds coops/runs and I ‘splurged’. This was during summer, still had to work on the pavers surrounding the coop and run