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

[Folly's place]

It's cute! Lighting all night is not a good thing, hope that's not what you are doing there. A small light at the coop 3am to 8am every day will encourage better egg production in the winter though.
Mary

 

[Beaglegal]

Chickens and coop came with the farm

 

[HappyClucker7]

I built my coop and run from a plan I got online. I had absolutely no carpentry skills, but it turned out pretty good.

 

[DuckinDonutsBensalem]

We tried to build our duck coop using as many used and recycled sources as we could. We used stuff we had or found. We used a side of an old crib to build our ramp. We also bought as much as we could from Restore, our local Habitat for Humanity store. The frame of the coop is new wood. I bought shingling from Restore but it wasn't enough. I was able to get a great deal on open cases of shingles that was close in color from Home Depot. We're still not completely finished with it. My ducks are happy as can be in it. It still needs to be trimmed out and painted.

 

[Josh L.]

The first couple of coops I built from scratch, but the new one I had just moved so I was too busy to build one! New coops are expensive! Lesson learned, BYO coop! haha

 

[BeckyOB]

Amongst other things your flock needs a safe and comfortable home. You may have chosen to build your own coop, which probably required time, money, and labor. If you chose not to build your own coop, you may have decided to buy a coop, or re-purposed an existing structure. Whichever route you chose to take, we are interested in finding out: Where Did You Get Your Coop & Run?

Vote above, and elaborate in the comments section if you chose "Other".

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Check out more exciting Official BYC Polls HERE!... or submit your chicken coop to our coop contest HERE!

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Amongst other things your flock needs a safe and comfortable home. You may have chosen to build your own coop, which probably required time, money, and labor. If you chose not to build your own coop, you may have decided to buy a coop, or re-purposed an existing structure. Whichever route you chose to take, we are interested in finding out: Where Did You Get Your Coop & Run?

Vote above, and elaborate in the comments section if you chose "Other".

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Check out more exciting Official BYC Polls HERE!... or submit your chicken coop to our coop contest HERE!

I bought our first coop from Sam's club... Super cute! But way too small once the flock started growing up!
So, I bought and repurposed a playhouse for our new one! It's still a work in progress, but I love it! I painted it to look like our home... Shutters and all! Some people think I'm crazy... But if you're going to have something, might as well make it nice, right?

 

[Nommie Bringer-Uvda-Noms]

We bought ours, custom prebuilt, from a local Mennonite store. They delivered it, then I fortified it myself, like a medieval European castle! I added a 24" skirt all the way around the bottom, then added hardware mesh all the way around the run, stapled every 3 - 4 inches along the bottom, and up all the studs. Then, I added a swing (which they couldn't care less about), a mirror (still intrigues them), a pink plastic toddler's adirondak chair, a couple branches, for roosts, 2 gal buckets with 5 nipples each, on the bottom (I wish I'd bought the horizontal ones, and when it comes time to replace them, it will be with those), a 5gal bucket continuous oyster shell feeder, and a continuous-feed 30gal heavy duty trash can, for layer feed.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

We

I bought our first coop from Sam's club... Super cute! But way too small once the flock started growing up!
So, I bought and repurposed a playhouse for our new one! It's still a work in progress, but I love it! I painted it to look like our home... Shutters and all! Some people think I'm crazy... But if you're going to have something, might as well make it nice, right? View attachment 2410620View attachment 2410621

SO CUTE!!! I don't think I've ever seen a coop be so adorable! I love it!

 

[EmmaRainboe]

We added a run to the old house that the people who built our house and previously owned the property lived in, and turned it into a coop, (it's a tiny house, like coop sized. The chickens don't get a whole full sized house lol)

 

[CluckerFamily]

I built my coop from mostly new material. I am horrible at drawing out my plans for building, I would never make a good architect! I just built as I went with what was in my head. I did buy a prefab coop on clearance to have in the garage as a Chicken Hospital when needed.