Official BYC Poll: Where Did You Get Your Coop & Run From?

[CapricornFarm]

my dad was gonna use our trampoline to build a chicken coop because he has to separate the baby chicks when they are big and also he has to separate the Easter eggers from the others and the hens and rooster that we can't put any other hens with because they bullied my chicken snowflake so we had to give her to my aunt till he built the coop but she got out and they never found her and I am lost without her because she was my chicken and I loved her she was the perfect chicken for me

Sorry to hear that. I have lost some favorites too.

 

[CapricornFarm]

There are lots of photos of my other builds on my thread, helpful Hints for building coops.

 

[WestTNriverrat]

Traded some hay for mine

 

[JacinLarkwell]

 

[ReelFaster]

Built from scratch using a combination of new and scrap materials.

 

[3KillerBs]

I had to add "Converted from another structure" to my list to account for the Brooder/Coop, which I'm almost done converting from coop that someone else had converted from their original 4x8 run.

It had seen hard use so I pulled it back to the wire box state and redid it to suit my current purposes.

From this,

To this,

I still need to put awnings over the vents on the long sides. Later we may add wheels to use it as a tractor.

 

[Drumstick63]

That's some great ventilation and roof overhangs. Looks great.

Thank you

 

[Mtnboomer]

Designed and built 100% myself from a mix of salvaged materials and new

 

[CalBickieMomma]

Mine was constructed from probably 95% scrap material and 5% new (I think only the hardware cloth was a new purchase). We have a lot of scrap material set aside on my parents’ property, and for the coop my dad and I (I asked for a coop and run for Christmas one year so we built it early that spring - with my dad doing most of the building and me digging the trenches around the run area to sink the wire down) collected scrap 2x4’s and metal panels and old fence boards to create the coop and nesting boxes.

We made the run nice and big and fully covered (I don’t let my chickens free range because our dogs aren’t chicken trained and I’m terrified of losing one of my babies to them or a predator).

Anyway, it turned out awesome! Used old fence pieces and a camper door for the coop and old metal rod cage frames for the run. I’m attaching pictures of it from this past Christmas - oh yeah, I totally put lights on it .

 

[BDutch]

Mine was constructed from probably 95% scrap material and 5% new (I think only the hardware cloth was a new purchase). We have a lot of scrap material set aside on my parents’ property, and for the coop my dad and I (I asked for a coop and run for Christmas one year so we built it early that spring - with my dad doing most of the building and me digging the trenches around the run area to sink the wire down) collected scrap 2x4’s and metal panels and old fence boards to create the coop and nesting boxes.

We made the run nice and big and fully covered (I don’t let my chickens free range because our dogs aren’t chicken trained and I’m terrified of losing one of my babies to them or a predator).

Anyway, it turned out awesome! Used old fence pieces and a camper door for the coop and old metal rod cage frames for the run. I’m attaching pictures of it from this past Christmas - oh yeah, I totally put lights on it .

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It looks great but I don’t see any ventilation in the coop. If there isn’t a huge ventilation opening at the back, you probably have to ad more .