post your chicken coop pictures here!

[jtbass2756]

Here's our EggMobile....it's a coop/run on a 14 foot trailer. They spend time outside supervised.
They have been in it for 1 week and they love it!!!! There are still some odds and ends to finish but the main housing is complete.



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Kurt Crowbain and his honeys love their home....

I love it !!!!! I want one just like it!!!

 

[trueblue1]

Thanks

We are adding external stairs right now.

 

[Southerlys]

Is that mulch in the run? If so what kind and how do you like it?

 

[Burnsey]

First post, first coop, first chickens. Looking forward to it and all of the great information here on BYC.

Cheers!
Burnsey

 

[LindaB220]

First post, first coop, first chickens. Looking forward to it and all of the great information here on BYC.

Cheers!
Burnsey

Great job!!! Enjoy your chicks.

 

[trueblue1]

Is that mulch in the run? If so what kind and how do you like it?

We use mini pine nugget mulch. It's has been easy for us to clean, we sift for poo & feathers, and then do kinda like a rake and fluff. It's all natural so their feet don't change colors. It's soft enough for them to lay on as well. We will change out the mulch every month. The cost is about $25, small price to pay for their happiness.

 

[Sylvester017]

Actually we live in a pretty quiet suburban area with not many predators. I've seen a handful of outdoor cats and some birds of prey but otherwise no other critters.

Oh and also we have one of these vicious beasts to protect our chickens

Love the dog. Is he/she an outdoor night watchman too or indoors at night? He/she would make a good match for day/night predators.

Raccoons, opossums, stray cats, rats, even hungry mischievous stray dogs are night predators and are never where you can see them and roosting hens will be too sleepy to notice anything to sound an alarm before it's too late.

We didn't have Raccoons noticed in our city neighborhood until about 15 years living here when we happened to catch one scurrying down a sidewalk storm drain before our car almost hit it at about 2 a.m. Thing was as big as a goat! Ask around your neighbors what they've seen in their yards or streets at various times of the day/night. We talked to about 6 neighbors before someone actually confirmed info about seeing raccoons. We've seen dead opossums hit by cars occasionally on our suburban city street. A lot of birds of prey, skunks, opossums, and rodent-type animals live in the brush or trees along freeways, highways, and parks and many don't come out until dark. You'll never see them coming. Talk it up with your neighbors. That's how I discovered there was a resident Cooper's Hawk in the neighborhood and why we set up numerous low lean-to's for our free-range yard chickens.

 

[Sylvester017]

First post, first coop, first chickens. Looking forward to it and all of the great information here on BYC.

Cheers!
Burnsey

Lovely construction! Of all the BYC sites this coop thread is one of my top two favourites to visit because of all the nice input by people with experience. Enjoy your chicks and don't get the overcrowding chicken addiction we ALL have to fight because chickeneering is so much fun!

 

[jtbass2756]

First post, first coop, first chickens. Looking forward to it and all of the great information here on BYC.
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Cheers!
Burnsey,
Iwould love to know more about the materials used and picts of the inside! I love this look.and I'm getting ready to build another small coop...

 

[JONNIEGIRL]

I am very new to this. Two adult girls Laverne and Shirley

that we were gift last Friday and then 8 baby chicks we now have for 10 days. Of course the big girls are outside in the run and coup and the babies in the house.
Our coup was already here attached to the barn and about 12 by 12 inside. We have added two perches from tree branches at different heights and today leaned
an old wooden ladder to the lower one. They seem to love that. Have a dirt bath outside made out of a big plastic barrel cut in half. Water and food inside hanging
from the ceiling and 10 boxes attached to the wall with straw for egg laying. So far 9 eggs starting Saturday afternoon. So hopefully I am doing okay. I am worried
sick over everyone and go out and sit by the big girls a few times a day (they are very tame) and just talk to them and they talk back. My son works for Chobani
Yogurt and gets all the free yogurt we can eat. Should I give them a bit each day or is that too much? Can I give some to the 10 day old babies too and if so
how often. I am In LOVE!!