Our Shipping Crate Coop - finally finished!!! (pic heavy)

[chickencrazy989]

great job

 

[bargain]

So proud of you .....This is great!

 

[Congers Coop]

That looks amazing! Great Job!

 

[Rachy]

Brilliant coop, well done!!!!

 

[TwoCrows]

Absolutely fantastic!! And the night time light up of the coop and run is beautiful!

 

[Kathi D]

WOW! That is a very nice setup! I think you did a great job, no matter how long it took.

 

[RichnSteph]

I know this is a much older thread but I wanted to stop in and ask how the coop is holding up so far. The wife and I were planning on three of these 5x7x8 containers (we talked to a fellow here in San Antonio that was selling them for $100 each) to use as storage and a chicken coop. By the time we got into the house and were ready for the containers they were all gone.

Your coop build has got me to looking for a container again.
RichnSteph

 

[Moogie]

The coop is holding up great - but it's positioned under a large pavilion, so it doesn't get much direct rain on the roof. The north side gets the full winter force, and it looks as good as new. Now it just needs a good cleaning to get the dust off the windows - something that will have to wait until fall, since our summers here are pretty brutal.

But the chickens all love it - the Legbars prefer it to sleep and nest in and I love it since I can stand upright in it, or peek in the window to do a headcount when I lock up at night.

The large back door that opens is especially great for cleaning the coop - I just use a short-tined garden rake to push everything out the back onto a tarp and then haul it behind the barn with the tractor to the compost pile and dump it.

I highly recommend it for housing a small flock, especially if you let them out to run around a while each day.

 

[Moogie]

PS - $100 for each of those is a GREAT price!!

 

[RichnSteph]

Thank you for the reply! I picked up three similar crates (5x7x7 without a door) this weekend for $300. Two of them are already well on their way to being a 7x10 storage shed. The other is ear marked for our chicken coop and I'll be using a lot of your design as inspiration for our build. Thanks for sharing!

RichnSteph