Our diy hobbit house chicken coop

[path.otto]

What a "fantastical" coop, I love it! It seems to blend so well with the rest of landscape!

 

[chickencheeper]

What a "fantastical" coop, I love it! It seems to blend so well with the rest of landscape!

Thank you! We worked hard to cost it in moss and some wildflowers and a garden. We gatherd the moss and the super tall wildflowers from the woods working hard to cut our moss and the dirt was from the leveling of the ground(it was on a hill and the dustbath is a terrace)

 

[bruceha2000]

Very cool. One modification I would make is wider roosts. They will roost on whatever size is available but a wider roost enables them to cover their feet in the cold winter months. And speaking of cold winter, those drinking cups are going to freeze.

Something I have found since I started in chickens in 2012 is that they like to roost as high as they can get. You might do well to move the nest boxes into the space where the roost area is now and build more and higher roosts in the larger area.

 

[hlhutchinson]

I love it it looks like a hobbit home
The removable wall when do you remove it, and why?

I love seeing different coops and different functions
It’s amazing the different coop people can come up with
We have a plain Jain coop my husband built for me but I love it he was so awesome to customize it will all the different features I wanted

 

[chickencheeper]

I love it it looks like a hobbit home
The removable wall when do you remove it, and why?

I love seeing different coops and different functions
It’s amazing the different coop people can come up with
We have a plain Jain coop my husband built for me but I love it he was so awesome to customize it will all the different features I wanted
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The removable insulated wall comes out during warm months and in during cold winter months

 

[Alecia Davidshofer]

This is our diy hobbit house style chicken coop, we designed and built it ourselves. We are first time chicken keepers and the proud owners(more like family) of 1 buff Orpington, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 silver laced Wyandotte, and 3 Plymouth barred rocks.
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A unicorn hobit land!! Id live there lol!

 

[Beckaryu]

This is our diy hobbit house style chicken coop, we designed and built it ourselves. We are first time chicken keepers and the proud owners(more like family) of 1 buff Orpington, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 silver laced Wyandotte, and 3 Plymouth barred rocks.
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I’m in love with this! Well done!

 

[aart]

@chickencheeper how has this preformed, any upgrades?