post your chicken coop pictures here!

[A2Kzoo2]

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Yes, I know. I would only put the run with chickens in it after the garden is done in the fall, or in the early early spring or over a bed that will be fallow for one rotation. I have a compost, also. The run is primarily so I can move it around the yard (over 2 acres of grass/light trees), giving the chickens a place to eat greens/search for bugs without completely free ranging. (I lost 4 birds last spring to coyotes.) This run/coop is currently being used for my 3 bachelors, but will be used for my silkies soon. The coop will have 2 small removable nest boxes so that I can keep it multipurpose and the roosts are on hinges so that I can fold them against the wall for easy cleaning. Next time I might make it about 6" to 1' higher with the extra space underneath, so I can reach that space a little easier. I'm thinking that the next one will also be bigger (I limited myself to the size of my scrap pieces this time, as a trial). I'll probably have to use bigger wheels if I go with a bigger coop, though.

 

[cabinchicky]

Got news for you....  the apprenticesip NEVER ends.... (key in evil laughter)   Bwhahahahaha

coop        W   H   L
no 1 was   4 x 6 x 8
no 2 was   4 x 6 x 6
no 3 was 12 x 6 x16
no 4 was 12 x 6 x 24
next one
will be     24 x 6 x 24
this last one will put me at my limits physically.

deb

Lol Perchie.girl! Please let me explain, I am starting a Toolmaker Apprenticeship. I really would like to add more birds but will wait until my 4 yr schooling and training is over. Plus I may not have the yard space to add another coop. 2.4 acres of mostly driveway and trees and I don't want a coop in my front yard yet. lololol!But I have both coops going now and a lot of free space in the newest one.

 

[Danielledrab]

Here's is some pics of my girls coop first time at keeping chickens and first time partner made a coop love it !! Just need to get garden finished for them happy days

 

[perchie.girl]

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LOL juts a joke... I thought you ment Bird Apprenticeship. My dad was a Tool maker. Initially back in the fifties. I have Eightee acres but am muddling around on about four. and My coop IS in what appears to be my front yard... Officially its the back yard.

deb

 

[The Gate Keeper]

Here are some pic's of my new coop and run, still under construction, I will post more when I'm finished

 

[perchie.girl]

Here are some pic's of my new coop and run, still under construction, I will post more when I'm finished

Oooh I love it... I take it you are putting in a partition for a feed room?

deb

 

[The Gate Keeper]

Hi Deb, thanks for the kind words and yes a 4x8 feed and storage with auto feeder built in the storage wall with fill door on storage side... still a lot of work to finish it, I can only work on it on the weekends

 

[gpeters3]

Hi Deb, thanks for the kind words and yes a 4x8 feed and storage with auto feeder built in the storage wall with fill door on storage side... still a lot of work to finish it, I can only work on it on the weekends   

Everybody seems excited about auto feeders, my pet peeve is cleaning and filling a waterer that has to be turned upside down to fill. Who has an auto-waterer? BTW, I agree with full size house doors for access to the coop areas. I enjoy my project much more since I added that feature.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Everybody seems excited about auto feeders, my pet peeve is cleaning and filling a waterer that has to be turned upside down to fill. Who has an auto-waterer? BTW, I agree with full size house doors for access to the coop areas. I enjoy my project much more since I added that feature.

I've heard of a few people with auto waterers actually! The one's I've seen though have either been with one of those Igloo drink coolers then i think low pressure down into PVC pipe with nipples (not sure if these are auto though or you refill the cooler. either way, seem cool) or they have some sort of low pressure system and/or you simply connect to your hose. Never seen the details on these though and it seems to me as if it would waste water but who knows. Plus you have to be near a hose. The other one I've heard a lot of, which I don't think is auto but could be, is the 5 gallon bucket system with the poultry nipples on bottom or sides. Or the PVC pipe running through with nipples. I've heard that the vertical nipples freeze though and horizontal is better which sucks because I bought vertical haha but yeah, either way, all of those seem way easier than those waterers, which I agree are a huge pain to fill.

 

[cabinchicky]

LOL juts a joke... I thought you ment Bird Apprenticeship.  My dad was a Tool maker.   Initially back in the fifties.    I have Eightee acres but am muddling around on about four.   and My coop IS in what appears to be my front yard...  Officially its the back yard.

deb 

Lolol! I knew you meant apprentice birder!My Dad is a retired Toolmaker from the plant I work in. The retirees toured our shop a few weeks back and of course he had to watch over my shoulder to critique my efforts. I have a lot of expectations to live up too. Yikes! Maybe someday I will want to expand again but until then I am content. I could always take over part of our 130 ft long pole barn when I retire!