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[Araylee]

Mine is going up right now!! It's my birthday present. We moved to Alaska and back to eastern Washington and I've been chicken-less for three long years. I'm currently looking for fall babies to fill it up! I had lavender Ameraucans from pips n peeps before, they were amazing!!

We used an 8x12 base that came with our new property and a bunch of 2x6 that we tore down off the old (badly built!) deck, and then used old gazebo wood to build the 7 trusses for the roof. There are three south-facing windows and none toward the north, my egg boxes will be accessible on the northern wall from the outside of the coop, and the east and west walls will have vents. My door will be on the western side, as well as the pop door for the chooks. I'll butt the fencing in between so I don't have to step through the fenced chicken yard to change out feed/water. more pics to come!

 

[LindaB220]

I have two coops one made from an old camper and then the one we made this summer, also made a run so they could go from one to the other, we keep the feed in the new coop.

Great idea, especially with this weather coming up.

 

[BeeInNorthAZ]

I just finished up this custom built coop and run for our first ever backyard flock. Three hens will be sharing this lovely chateaux, with room for three more when needed.

Everything in and about this coop/run, except the new roofing material and the Chicken Guard automatic door device, is completely reused or recycled. Every piece of wood and every fastener comes from pallets or leftovers from the build of our home that we completed last year. Other pieces, like the window and cinderblock, were sourced from our local ReStore.

The most difficult part to build was the 3 chambered roll-away nest box, mainly because I had no choice but to build it from scratch in one day, as the hens were coming the next day. The engineering degree it took to figure out a failsafe pop-door design luckily wasn't necessary after only one failed attempt.


Enjoy the photos:

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Cool set up, gilcamp4.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

I have two coops one made from an old camper and then the one we made this summer, also made a run so they could go from one to the other, we keep the feed in the new coop.

Nice

 

[PrimroseMom1]

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Mine is going up right now!! It's my birthday present. We moved to Alaska and back to eastern Washington and I've been chicken-less for three long years. I'm currently looking for fall babies to fill it up! I had lavender Ameraucans from pips n peeps before, they were amazing!!

We used an 8x12 base that came with our new property and a bunch of 2x6 that we tore down off the old (badly built!) deck, and then used old gazebo wood to build the 7 trusses for the roof. There are three south-facing windows and none toward the north, my egg boxes will be accessible on the northern wall from the outside of the coop, and the east and west walls will have vents. My door will be on the western side, as well as the pop door for the chooks. I'll butt the fencing in between so I don't have to step through the fenced chicken yard to change out feed/water. more pics to come!

Looking good

 

[PrimroseMom1]

I just finished up this custom built coop and run for our first ever backyard flock. Three hens will be sharing this lovely chateaux, with room for three more when needed. Everything in and about this coop/run, except the new roofing material and the Chicken Guard automatic door device, is completely reused or recycled. Every piece of wood and every fastener comes from pallets or leftovers from the build of our home that we completed last year. Other pieces, like the window and cinderblock, were sourced from our local ReStore. The most difficult part to build was the 3 chambered roll-away nest box, mainly because I had no choice but to build it from scratch in one day, as the hens were coming the next day. The engineering degree it took to figure out a failsafe pop-door design luckily wasn't necessary after only one failed attempt. Enjoy the photos:

VERY nice. Congrats.

 

[Lady EE]

The Bunker in 2011









(There's a shavings bag in the bedding for some reason
Have yet to lose a chicken...when the pop door is closed.If it's open, we pretty regularly lose one night

 

[DoubleMM]

Looks like a nice build. Welcome back to chickens....

 

[TJordan]

The Bunker in 2011









(There's a shavings bag in the bedding for some reason
Have yet to lose a chicken...when the pop door is closed.If it's open, we pretty regularly lose one night

This is very simular to what we will be making in the next week.... We will tie it into the existing storage shed and have the sharp angle. Instead of the doors on the front it will have a flip top for easy cleaning. Add in the front opening for the birds and a removable wooden front for warmer weather with hardware cloth front for protection... And there we have it... I want to go with sweet PDZ for the bedding with pine shavings or pine straw for the nesting boxes... I'll have 2 removable roost bars with poop trays, a covered area for inside water and feed troth and another under the coop for outside play. My husband has decided that he wants to build an 8' tall 10'x10' awning for rain protection... In theory, that will be a 4'x8'x3' tall coop, 10'x10' sheltered area, a 1/4 acre fenced in range area ( we have a 1/2 acre backyard) and eventually we will put up a 8' tall privacy fence with movable fencing to rotate the pin around the yard....