post your chicken coop pictures here!

[mc chicken]

Forgot one.

 

[mc chicken]

How many chickens? I really like the run!

Currently I have 9 chickens and a duck in there. It at full occupancy right now. The run is 8x8, I plan on expanding to 16x8 this spring. Coops maybe 4x4

 

[birdman55]

nice coops everyone

 

[Wyld Dream Farm]

I love all the pics of the coops!! It is giving me great ideas

 

[dfalchek]

Here's mine, a work in progress until I get my first flock of four in late March. I put the attached run up this weekend during a warm, spell. DF

 

[PrimroseMom1]

If they free range it will take longer. Put down soiled bedding or leaves, carbon stuff you have around, on the bare spots.

I use leaves and gravel. I can't keep it green, but it isn't smelly or mud, even when it rains.

 

[birdman55]

Here's mine, a work in progress until I get my first flock of four in late March. I put the attached run up this weekend during a warm, spell. DF

very nice...and should be easy to maintain...great design

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Here in LA, the summers are long, HOT, and HUMID. Coops here have to be very open and I even use a fan as well.

Just put panels on in the winter.

I could not use the coops with solid wood walls, even with windows here, I would lose chickens from heat stroke. My chicken yard is shaded by a big oak tree with plenty of shaded areas with dust areas. It's just so hot. I envy you guys that can use the walked coops. I LOVE LOVE all the very cool designs I see here. Thanks to this thread.

 

[mc chicken]

Here in LA, the summers are long, HOT, and HUMID. Coops here have to be very open and I even use a fan as well.

Just put panels on in the winter.

I could not use the coops with solid wood walls, even with windows here, I would lose chickens from heat stroke. My chicken yard is shaded by a big oak tree with plenty of shaded areas with dust areas. It's just so hot. I envy you guys that can use the walked coops. I LOVE LOVE all the very cool designs I see here. Thanks to this thread.

Nice coop! I wish the summers where long here in Illinois. But its more like long cold winters for me.

 

[Sylvester017]

Here's mine, a work in progress until I get my first flock of four in late March. I put the attached run up this weekend during a warm, spell. DF

From our experience, good luck collecting eggs in the rain... Maybe use that clothesline bar to secure a tarp over the coop roof/collection lid. We have a pop-up canopy over ours and anchored to the ground. Keeps any rain leaks from warping the coop's exterior finish and keeps us dry while collecting eggs and checking on hens. Before we could afford a couple of canopies we used tarps over the hen house. Now we have one canopy over the little coop and another canopy in the back yard as shelter for the hens from rain or hot sunny days. When the canopy tops deteriorate we use regular tarps secured with ball-ties and heavy clips over the canopy frame because the replacement canopy covers are too expensive. If ball-ties are used the tarp looks almost as neat as a regular canopy replacement cover.
BTW - cute coop!