post your chicken coop pictures here!

[TheRichFish]

Almost finished with my first coop. Measures 8 x 8 feet, inside measures 48 inches high in the front sloping to 38 inches in the back, will have a run measuring 24 x 24 feet surrounding it.

 

[AZchickens17]

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Wow! Gorgeous coop. How many chickens does it fit/

 

[perchie.girl]

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that post was back in 2011 LOL... but the design is popular and can be adjusted to your needs.

four square feet per chicken inside the coop ten square feet per chicken outside... The garden coop and many others allow for housing space overlap.

deb

 

[Sylvester017]

Almost finished with my first coop. Measures 8 x 8 feet, inside measures 48 inches high in the front sloping to 38 inches in the back, will have a run measuring 24 x 24 feet surrounding it.

Great coop and

In your area what type of predators do you have to secure from? In our area it's city raccoons and possums and stray neighbor dogs. Our chickens chase off the neighbor's cat!

 

[TheRichFish]

I'm in the country, so I have a lot of predators to worry about: coyotes, foxes, raccoons, opossums, skunks, hawks, snakes, rats, wandering dogs. I'm sure I'm leaving out a few! I will bury a foot of hardware cloth below the chain link fence to keep animals from digging under and in, and will put poultry netting over the top to stop the attacks from above. I think the coop itself is pretty secure, so I hope a crafty varmit doesn't break in.

 

[mizjones]

We're in central South Carolina, just north of Charleston. The main predators out here (area consists of farms and smaller towns) are coyotes, rats, snakes, hawks, raccoons, possums, and feral cats. We were so worried about it we enclosed our entire 2 acres with farm wire fencing, then my husband built a huge chicken yard using about 10,000 rolls of chicken wire (well, maybe not quite that many) plus hardware cloth which goes 10 inches below soil level. We cannot afford to let them free range right now. Maybe some day in the future but it's just not feasible at present.

Blessings upon your efforts and don't give up if you do experience some losses. Keep going!

 

[mizjones]

Love your set-up.

 

[ScottandSam]

I'm in the country, so I have a lot of predators to worry about: coyotes, foxes, raccoons, opossums, skunks, hawks, snakes, rats, wandering dogs. I'm sure I'm leaving out a few! I will bury a foot of hardware cloth below the chain link fence to keep animals from digging under and in, and will put poultry netting over the top to stop the attacks from above. I think the coop itself is pretty secure, so I hope a crafty varmit doesn't break in.

I'm in the country too so same predators. I'm planning on chain link 8' with a roof and bury hardware cloth and run it up 4 foot of the chain link fence.

Some day I'll post it here when its done.

Scott

 

[mizjones]

This looks wonderful--all self contained and cozy!

 

[Sylvester017]

I'm in the country, so I have a lot of predators to worry about: coyotes, foxes, raccoons, opossums, skunks, hawks, snakes, rats, wandering dogs. I'm sure I'm leaving out a few! I will bury a foot of hardware cloth below the chain link fence to keep animals from digging under and in, and will put poultry netting over the top to stop the attacks from above. I think the coop itself is pretty secure, so I hope a crafty varmit doesn't break in.

On the Silkie thread a U.K. owner just lost her sweet very pretty Silkies to a dog that tore into her coop. So heartbreaking. We put our coop on a concrete slab and have a patio roof overhead to shade from the sun and shelter from the rain. A kennel wire run is attached on the pop-door side. Our little flock free-ranges the backyard w/ lots of doghouses, lawn furniture, patio roofs, potted containers, compost bin, benches, and pop-up canopy as shelters from our resident Cooper's Hawk (chicken hawk) youngster who has been nice enough to screech to give ample warning for the hens to hide.