post your chicken coop pictures here!

[heatherlaw]

Here's my little coop. I'm a first time chicken owner so my husband just looks at pics online and made it up as he went. The bottom part is storage and the girls sleep in the top. No too bad for having no clue what we were doing.

Don't mind the fluffy butt in the picture

 

[Chipper Chicken]

Mine is a converted duck pen. Definitely a little out of the ordinary, but the chickens seem happy, can come and go from their evening quarters as they please, and are very secure.

WHAT is that wire reinforcement around the bottom of the coop? I keep looking at it and it looks way too hurkey to be hardware cloth. Did you bury it too? It does look secure!

 

[perchie.girl]

Here's my little coop. I'm a first time chicken owner so my husband just looks at pics online and made it up as he went. The bottom part is storage and the girls sleep in the top. No too bad for having no clue what we were doing.


Don't mind the fluffy butt in the picture

cutie patotie.... Chicken bombs are always welcome.... LOL. Nice coop... would love to see inisde.

If I had do overs I would love to have concrete inside the coop area... or at least the worker bee area ... Me.

than if things get outa hand just bring in the hose and a nozzel... LOL. or in my case a bucket and a squeegie.

deb

 

[heatherlaw]

cutie patotie.... Chicken bombs are always welcome.... LOL.  Nice coop...  would love to see inisde.

If I had do overs I would love to have concrete inside the coop area...  or at least the worker bee area ... Me. 

than if things get outa hand just bring in the hose and a nozzel... LOL.  or in my case a bucket and a squeegie. 

deb

Yeah concrete is nice. It was there when we bought the house so we just parked the coop right there. On the other side of that door the girls have a 6'x35' run. The inside of the coop isn't quite finished yet. We still need a roost and to unblock the nesting boxes once the chicks are ready to lay. I'm going to line the bottom with linolim for easy cleaning. I'll post pics when finished

 

[perchie.girl]

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Thats a very respectable run.... My next one is going to be at least that long... adjacent to the horse corral HOpefully I will be able to include the horse corral as part of an extended "range" for them. They Do love to scratch in Poo. and its a good source of green food for them... I know

but its not as bad as all that. In the desert here there is no grass... and I dont plant it.

deb

 

[bruceha2000]

My coop and extended run. Not what I wanted, but my sweet husband built it for me when I was out of town, and I don't have the heart to say anything. It's great in the summer, but I'm a bit worried about our wet winters. I do have solid wood panels, as well as clear plexiglass panels, that clip into the open sides, so that will help. I'm thinking I may have to get a large carport canopy to go over the entire coop and part of the run so that I don't get soaked through every day when I refill feed and water. You'll notice the prayer flags in the run. My husband is trying to turn the chicks into Buddhists .. or keep away the owls and hawks.

A raccoon will be able to reach right into that coop and tear your birds to pieces. The latches don't look very coon proof either. And your birds will get soaked in there. The roosting bar is at about the same height as the nest boxes, so they may end up sleeping the boxes, giving you poop covered eggs in the morning.
I don't mean to be so blunt, but there are some serious flaws for a coop in NW Oregon.

Actually the removable panel design (that is what those latches are for) is quite nice! Plenty airy in the summer, can be closed up as needed in the winter. I agree that some sort of "cattle panel hoop" or other cover would be nice though snow is pretty rare in the Willamette Valley

 

[Stephanie R]

You're right. We get snow very rarely here. I'm more worried about the rain, of which we get plenty. We are currently looking for something that will go over the entire coop, plus extend over into the attached run by a few feet. Still not ideal, but our coop is very secure ... hardware cloth underneath and extended out about 12" from the coop, and raccoon proof latches on everything that opens. Next spring we'll be looking into something a little larger and more enclosed. Thanks, Bruce.

 

[LaurelC]

WHAT is that wire reinforcement around the bottom of the coop? I keep looking at it and it looks way too hurkey to be hardware cloth. Did you bury it too? It does look secure!

The wire around the bottom is half inch hardware class th. The bottom foot of it is buried.

 

[Chipper Chicken]

Perfect.

 

[cabinchicky]

The wire around the bottom is half inch hardware class th. The bottom foot of it is buried.

th? what does that stand for please. I am not real with it today after an all female campout with my sisters , nieces and a large amount of peach pie I made.