post your chicken coop pictures here!

[islandgirl82]

I'm in the uk so no Raccoons only rats can not stop them but the coop is on a stand and I have messed that as well

Gorgeous coop!

My father lost nearly his entire flock to pine martens this spring in Ireland. I was there visiting and saw them everywhere around his gardens. Unfortunately he didn't have a concrete slab underneath so those things tunneled right underneath the coop and had holes under the ramp so when the girls were let out, the were immediately caught. His run was a stockade fence so he never saw the holes until his wife went to close them up one night and they only had a few girls left. I tried filling the holes in with stones but new tunnels would pop up by the following morning. When you say you have a concrete base, is it a slab under the entire thing or just around the perimeter?

 

[iwiw60]

vents are on side inside coop and a window is on the right side along with service door.

Nice build! Is your wire buried down and out (aproning) to prevent predators such as raccoons, etc. from digging in?

 

[newtnn]

Mine doesn't really look like much, but it cost 5 bucks to paint and 30 to roof, the rest of the material I found on the property my wife and I just bought.

Building, as you can see the wood is rather unloved... but I like my re-purposed cabinet door.


Latest picture I have of my coop (I have since added a ladder/ramp and built an enclosure for our compost next to it.
Kinda fun, a bit janky, hardly any square corners, if any at all. But I like it, and my girls don't seem to mind.

-Nick

 

[jtbass2756]

Mine doesn't really look like much, but it cost 5 bucks to paint and 30 to roof, the rest of the material I found on the property my wife and I just bought.

Building, as you can see the wood is rather unloved... but I like my re-purposed cabinet door.


Latest picture I have of my coop (I have since added a ladder/ramp and built an enclosure for our compost next to it.
Kinda fun, a bit janky, hardly any square corners, if any at all. But I like it, and my girls don't seem to mind.

-Nick

WOW ! There is such a difference in the two picts. I love how you recyced everything....right down to the cabinet door!

Can't wait to see more picts of how you arranged the inside and do they have protected run now or are they totally free ranged...?

 

[annabelle12]

Here is my coop, modified from The Garden Coop plans. The chickens can come out into a larger space protected by electric fence to forage during the day. The whole thing is open in the summer for ventilation, then we tarp and plastic it for the winter, but the whole top still open for great ventilation. Added an auto chicken door from AdorStore.com as well. More pics here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hannahs-hen-house


Summer coop open for ventilation


Leaf deep litter and auto chicken door


Plastic and tarp over hardware cloth for fall and winter weather


This past spring, when they had just moved in from the brooder to coop

 

[RobJones]

I'm pretty sure I have mad this fox proof 12inch concrete base then 4 inch top soil 3 inch wood chip. frame 3 x 2 inch wood then used galv weld mesh they can not bite through also covered the roof with mesh before I put plastic sheets on. It been ok for the past 18 months no fox and no badgers have got in fingers crossed

 

[newtnn]

WOW !  There is such a difference in the two picts. I love how you recyced everything....right down to the cabinet door! Can't wait to see more picts of how you arranged the inside and do they have protected run now or are they totally free ranged...? 

They're totally free ranged, but since winter visited early my girls are staying indoors for now, with some pop-bottle-and-scratch toys.

here's a view inside of the coop with my Lakenvelder perched on one of the roosts, I have these placed well above the door. The birds in front are my Orloff pullets gathered around the food dish.

And here you can see the nesting boxes, the water tank (it is on a cookie tin heater now) and one of my Russian Orloff pullets.
They seem rather content to scratch around and talk to me.

 

[Madenglishman]

Gorgeous coop!

My father lost nearly his entire flock to pine martens this spring in Ireland. I was there visiting and saw them everywhere around his gardens. Unfortunately he didn't have a concrete slab underneath so those things tunneled right underneath the coop and had holes under the ramp so when the girls were let out, the were immediately caught. His run was a stockade fence so he never saw the holes until his wife went to close them up one night and they only had a few girls left. I tried filling the holes in with stones but new tunnels would pop up by the following morning. When you say you have a concrete base, is it a slab under the entire thing or just around the perimeter?

Hi no I have done a complete slab no tunneling unless they have a jack hammer our most common pest are fox's and Badgers you will never protect against everything just can do your best

 

[Sylvester017]

Mine doesn't really look like much, but it cost 5 bucks to paint and 30 to roof, the rest of the material I found on the property my wife and I just bought.

Building, as you can see the wood is rather unloved... but I like my re-purposed cabinet door.


Latest picture I have of my coop (I have since added a ladder/ramp and built an enclosure for our compost next to it.
Kinda fun, a bit janky, hardly any square corners, if any at all. But I like it, and my girls don't seem to mind.

-Nick

LUV the repurposed wood and cabinet door! We went hunting on trash day in the neighborhood and picked up a rectangle headboard and matching footboard that we propped up on cinderblocks to make hiding/snoozing shelters for our girls in the yard during the hot summer. A friend gave us his old extra large doghouse and our girls have chosen to cozy-up in it on these cooler days.

 

[Madenglishman]

I should not have open my mouth looks like a rat has been killing my Bantams have found a dead one today has been eaten in the coop. I will have to step up my baiting. rat poison in the UK is slow acting wish I could get the smoke bombs like in the rest of Europe just light it put it down the hole job done kills all in there.



I have a cat she is 21 yrs old so dose not go out might try using some of here litter in the coop do you think this will be ok