Our first coop!

[Julia62]

We just finished building our first coop! It was so much fun. We just need a few more items for the hens and then we will get them this week we hope. They are about 8-10 weeks old. I've read both "Building Chicken Coops for Dummies" and "Raising Chickens for Dummies", loved both of them.

We started the coop with a pallet as a base and used mostly stuff we had around the house, but did spend about $200.00 extra and we bought the dog kennel as a run. We have wire to put around the bottom of it. We also have a shade cloth kennel cover to go over it.

These are a few of the many pics we took along the way. I still have to fill the "windows" with something and we are naming our coop (which I will stencil on the front) "The Chicks' Shall-Lay"

 

[ChickenAndMore]

That's a nice looking coop, good job!

 

[Julia62]

Thank you! I added a few finishing touches: coop name stenciled above the door and a couple chicken pics in the frames. We also added some chicken wire around the outside for extra protection and a shade top. We bought straw for the nests and shavings for the coop. Our 3 pullets are coming home tomorrow! They are about 10 weeks old.

 

[ChickenAndMore]

It looks really nice and adding chicken wire around the bottom was a smart thing to do .