post your chicken coop pictures here!

[smccuen]

I really like this - and nicely decorated to boot.

My Koop.

 

[smccuen]

Thank you so much for all the construction photos - that's helpful to me. How have you attached the nesting box access doors? Are they hinged at the bottom and closed with sliding latches?

 

[smccuen]

Lovely.

Here's our coop! Started a few months ago and finished last weekend.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/bluegrass-coop

 

[smccuen]

Coop in a sheltered corner of the garden.


recycled concrete path and lawn boarder leading to the coop


the old fence boards are decoration. the hardware cloth extends a foot and a half underground I have no floor. I used pvc as posts to prevent rot

Water and nest access from the outside

My feeder, access from the outside

Secure run, with plexiglass roof 6' x 4' they have access to and 60 sq ft of uncovered run and a tractor during the day. I just cleaned it, normally I have lots of compostables, yard trimmings cut grass leaves etc, and put down a little sod I cut out to make another garden bed.

view of feeder and waterer

nest boxes above the feeder and waterer so they can 't poop in them. There is enough roost space above the nestbox height in the A-frame, so chickens can get up high out of the wind if there is any. We seldom have frost so I am not concerned about heat. I had to put the screen above the boxes so that I don't have any hard surface they can poop on


homemade feeder, holds 25lbs

I really like your nest box doors, the idea of "no floor" and your homemade feeder box. Nice job.

 

[yelnad]

We started our Chicken Castle today!

 

[BGMatt]

Super envious of a ton of you guys. after reading through this thread I feel very insignificant and like I have the carpentry skills of a three year old.

 

[yelnad]

Super envious of a ton of you guys.  after reading through this thread I feel very insignificant and like I have the carpentry skills of a three year old.

Don't feel bad. I'm paying for the labor on mine and my husband is just the fetcher for the paid laborer. It's still cheaper than buying a quality finished 8x16' shed.

 

[jdeoliveira74]

here is the newest coop i have built

 

[Mac14]

here is the newest coop i have built

Beautiful! Amazing!

 

[rwade]

I was given a "new" shed in the box a while back, but it was missing a couple of panels. I was given 29 one week old Bovins White (that is what I was told they are) chicks and decided to use the shed as a chicken coop. Below are some pictures of what I have come up with. Not very pretty, but functional for now anyway.




This is the front. The largest plywood piece is the "people" door so I can get in and clean it. the smaller plywood piece is solid and does not move so I have to squeeze through. I used a scrap of wood to form the latch. I DID have a cable attached to the door with a pully on the back wall of the coop and a 6 pound window weight to make the door close and stay closed automatically but the cable was not heavy duty enough and broke. NOTE TO SELF - don't use picture hanging wire to do this...mine did not work hehe. I may buy stronger cable later and redo it.




Bet you can't figure out which panels were missing? hehe. I had to build the side wall here and still need to close up the top near the roof where I did not attempt to cut the proper angle!



I could not get the shed doors to stay attached or closed well enough so I did not use them. This is where I will eventually build the nesting boxes...on the outside as the inside of the shed is only 4X4 feet square. On the left you can see the fence I am still installing. The bottom section is 1"X1.5" welded wire (like metal cloths hanger diameter size). I got about 70 Feet of it free to use as long as I need it! It is only 30 inches high and the chicks can fly over it currently; so I have clipped their right wing feathers so they cannot fly high enough to get over it! On the top of the welded wire is 1" hex shaped chicken wire simply to keep chickens in! I plan to get that all the way around then work on the run cover later.




Once again free stuff, this time the pallets and door. I used the plywood to help hold the fence in place by screwing them on with the fence trapped between. There are metal poles on either side of the pallets to hold them up. Trying to figure out how to make the pallets more solid as they have "wiggle room" against the poles...this makes the door hard to open and close as the door is screwed onto the end of the right hand pallet!





Door from inside the run. I made it open into the run as it will be easier for me to keep the chickens inside. I used small scraps of pallet slats and plywood to hold chicken wire to the pallets so the chickens could not get trapped in the pallet.

Put my 29 chickens (13 roosters and 16 hens) into the pen today so looking forward to seeing if they have issues or not. So far they seem to like it.