post your chicken coop pictures here!

[Sylvester017]

Ha. My DH likes to park at the WAY far end of any parking lot, so no jerks can open their doors wide and dent his precious automobile. And yes, it lives in a garage when not ferrying us around.

We should have gone for brown paint - and made the roost further from the wall. It was a premade Amish coop, so not bad but not perfect. It's those cecal poops that get ya.

What Amish company and what coop (Quaker, Dutch, Gable, or Lean-to?) model did you get?

 

[Sylvester017]

Here are some pictures of my coop and run! that coop was bought and is wonderful! Also I made the run myself as a school project for math since I am homeschooled. I know that the coop and run look really bad, lousy, and aren't creative but oh well it work for us! Plus I live in a tiny house and this is in out back yard!

We live in a tiny cottage (less than 1000 sq ft) but your yard is still WAY bigger than ours! Hurray for home-schooling!

 

[Sylvester017]

@mrsfluff100 Echoing what those ahead of me said: That coop looks just fine, and the run looks more than adequate for the number of bantams you have. I'm sure they are quite happy with both! Also nice to see hardware cloth all around, and buried as well as reinforced with concrete blocks! Very nice and secure! I would make one small change though if I were you... I would replace those little slide locks with actual hasp type closures and use a carabiner clip. I have seen animals open the little locks that you have in no time at all.

x 2

 

[philnj]

We don't plan on keeping any roosters and honestly will probably not keep the silkie crosses especially if they start getting picked on.

 

[VladikC]

My first time building something from scratch.

 

[jtbass2756]

Roofed and painted!! I still have two walls to cover in back and the enclosure still needs a trench with the hardware cloth. I couldn't wait to start the decorative trim with the maple branches cut in half... bicycle inner tubes work great to lash them down to the sawhorses so they won't turn when I'm cutting them (dangerously) with the circular saw.

Love so much how you have used the natural wood! But be so careful about using the "chicken wire" ! Don't know what kind of predators you have but I'm going to attach a picture of what happened at my son's run and wire. Lost either 6-8 pullets..some silkies and a couple of reds.

Made a believer out of me!

 

[Pecanny]

Love so much how you have used the natural wood! But be so careful about using the "chicken wire" ! Don't know what kind of predators you have but I'm going to attach a picture of what happened at my son's run and wire. Lost either 6-8 pullets..some silkies and a couple of reds.

Made a believer out of me!

Raccoons. They eat chicken wire for their pre-chicken dinner snack. Extremely sharp teeth and claws.

 

[Peggy O]

Here are some pictures of my coop and run! that coop was bought and is wonderful! Also I made the run myself as a school project for math since I am homeschooled. I know that the coop and run look really bad, lousy, and aren't creative but oh well it work for us! Plus I live in a tiny house and this is in out back yard!

We have the same kit coop! We love it, and I think you did a very nice job on the run. We were going to do something similar, but now we're just fencing all around the entire coop, making a walk in run. Here is the progress so far. We also added a backroom to the kit coop.

 

[Pecanny]

Love so much how you have used the natural wood! But be so careful about using the "chicken wire" ! Don't know what kind of predators you have but I'm going to attach a picture of what happened at my son's run and wire. Lost either 6-8 pullets..some silkies and a couple of reds.

Made a believer out of me!

And if it is coons, you'll know it shortly, because they will be back, That new fence will not keep them out. Not only can the coon walk right through it, he can dig under if need be. You have to fence the ground out two feet also. Here is what I had to do> Doubled hog fence (as he has in the pic) crossing each link in the middle then wired together... Then barn tin for ground cover....




Also, note the intended ground level ventilation factor built in.. Just cover with a drop tarp in the cold of winter.



I thought penning chickens would be a cake walk and I found out quickly that toothy predators lurk in the night, and if you want to keep the same chickens for a long time you'd better have a helluva solid coop.

 

[meralgia]

Thanks for the imagery... I have hardware cloth for the bottom half; I planned on digging it a foot down but maybe now I'll get the 4' tall stuff so I can go deeper.