post your chicken coop pictures here!

[vehve]

Our labs "chase" our chickens when they're out in the yard. It's very slow though, the chickens go about with their business, and the dogs walk after them, vacuuming up the lovely droppings the chickens produce.

 

[islandgirl82]

Hahahaha gross. I read so many posts about their dogs eating the droppings amongst other unmentionable things and I am SO thankful mine doesn't. My neighbors dogs love it and then they try to lick everyone's faces. I feel very blessed to have a non poop-eating, anti face-licking dog.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Our labs "chase" our chickens when they're out in the yard. It's very slow though, the chickens go about with their business, and the dogs walk after them, vacuuming up the lovely droppings the chickens produce. 

My dog loves chicken poop better than dog treats. She would keep the chicken yard clean, but I don't let her in anymore. Yum?

 

[Sylvester017]

I love the descriptions of the Amercaunas. I have two and they are just that way. They stick together and the yard is big enough to get away from the others. They like to coop together at night separate from the others which I am letting them do bec they are molting and more skittish than ever. One is better than the other. One is so bad that I nicknamed her Squeeker. If I pick her up you would think I scalded her. They are so interesting and lay beautiful blue eggs everyday (except while molting), but I don't think I'd get more bec they are so freaky.

2 Amers/EEs are good together in a flock. I don't think I'd keep more than a couple myself because they are so skittish but I will always have them for their non-combative personalities and prolific egg-laying. I like that our girl stays in the yard even though she flies very well. She's moulting right now also and the yard looks like several hens exploded! Feathers EVERYWHERE - I've been sweeping and DH has been cleaning out the coop but all to no avail. We've been making sure to give her added protein treats to rejuvenate her new feather replacements. Chickens lose their appetite when starting to moult and as the new feathers come in they slowly resume their appetites. Right now our girl is loving to eat all the protein we can give her - wild caught fish, shrimp, high-protein kitten/cat food, cooked meats, hard-boiled egg, etc. Of course the other hens get some also but she has a bottomless appetite where others get filled faster.

 

[gilcamp4]

Finally got the winter coop done and revamped the other one for the banties. I think they will all be happy and safe this winter, and I will only have to go to 2 places to feed and water. (We actually have about 5 other coops, plus breeding pens and cages).
Here we go......

CHICK COMMANDER







BANTY COMMANDER






Underneath the banty coop we made CHICKY COMMANDER, it is for younger chicks getting ready to be introduced to the flock, lets say a getting to know you holding pen.




Today we actually spread a huge tarp over the entire run to help protect the chickens from the snow and bad weather I have a feeling we will soon be getting. I hung christmas lights all along the sides so they didn't feel like they were always in the dark, but it looked like enough light was getting in and they loved it. This is going to be my first winter with chickens and I wanted to make sure and take all the precautions.

 

[rachpatterson]

Here's ours

 

[perchie.girl]

Here's ours

Nice Job and Welcome to Byc

from San Diego High desert.

deb

 

[gilcamp4]

This "post your chicken coop pictures here" BYC thread is loaded with photos and some even have links to their plans. Start at page one and have fun looking at all the basic to very elaborate coops to get your ideas. Just from these photos I've latched on to some ideas for myself!

yes some of them are better then my house, i would move my chickens in house to live in some of them, there is one looks like a shopping mall, and one looks like a little town, go have fun looking at them

 

[Sylvester017]

Here's ours

I love seeing recycled items cleverly used as chicken coops! How cold do your delaware winters get? We use a tarp to keep out the cold winds and a popup canopy with legs buried and staked to the ground to provide protection from heavy rain or from hot UV sunrays. Once a year we replace the canopy top with a tarp held down with ball ties to the frame instead of getting an expensive canopy replacement and it still looks decent especially with the ball ties.

 

[bruceha2000]

They are single glaze but anyway i wouldnt risk see them slaughter in the coop i would be devastated

Methinks you worry too much (like any new parent

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My barn has a lot of single pane windows and I've never had a chicken fly at them. Most are OLD 6 over 6. The one that has a pane missing is the "chicken door" out the long wall of the barn alley. I hinged a piece of plywood to the wall to make a door for it. Most of the time the doors on the ends of the barn are open and they use those. I made a ~18' x 18' outdoor run using hot wire posts and chicken wire just outside that window with ramps on both sides so they could go outside and be safe when they were little. As adults they just wander wherever they want and are probably safer NOT being confined in a "slap it up" non predator safe run.

Here is my coop, still have to add a window and paint it, its a little rough around the edges but its getting there.

Looks terriffic.

Hi everyone, here is a picture of the coop my husband built for our 6 chickens. The cedar siding is from the old hot tub that we had in this spot before. My husband has fun with projects like this. The roof is no longer a tarp, and has grey shingles that match our house. The chicken door has a chain and hook that hold it open, and the bigger door has a latch. We've cleared most of the bricks out of the area, leaving mostly sand now with some flagstones to walk on. We're going to have to start keeping in their run during the day soon, they've been free ranging our back yard all summer and they may not like it much at first! We won't be home from work in time to let them in to their run/coop from the back yard before it's dark, once the time changes. I am going to have to figure out what to do with the sandy floor of the run soon, if they're locked up in there all day, I'm going to have to deal with poop.

I don't know. Epic fail not having the wood on the door line up with the siding.

I jest of course, very nicely done!

Chickens will get used to pretty much anything. I hammered on the roof shingles with the birds inside, they had no problem with that. And the nail gun going off a few feet from them didn't scare them either. Or the circular saw.

Mine are OK with power tools but they are pretty wary of the orange "snake" I plug them into.

I mow the lawn with them not even flinching!
While I was building the coop saws didn't scare them either!
Sean

Oh, mine do not like the mower AT ALL. It is a 54" deck on a garden tractor so probably louder than your average mower.