post your chicken coop pictures here!

[Neolones]

The floor of the run has wire, to avoid burrowing predators.

 

[Tika75]

The floor of the run has wire, to avoid burrowing predators.

If you won't be moving them around, I've read that you might want to cover the wire with dirt. They like to scratch around & take dirt baths so the wire could cut their feet.

 

[Neolones]

Thank you for the warm welcome! Love the community already! Yes I will cover it with at least 6 inches of dirt.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Now I see in your avatar that you have what looks like two orpingtons. So is that your breeding pen?

 

[Neolones]

Oh I wish. That was taken during my visit to the Tulsa fair. I currently don't have any chicks/hens, yet. Getting my birds in October. I went ahead and got the chicken coop first.

 

[Tika75]

Oh I wish. That was taken during my visit to the Tulsa fair. I currently don't have any chicks/hens, yet. Getting my birds in October. I went ahead and got the chicken coop first.

Better to put the coop before the chicken.

We didn't have our chickens at the Tulsa fair but did have them at the Payne County Fair.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Oh I wish. That was taken during my visit to the Tulsa fair. I currently don't have any chicks/hens, yet. Getting my birds in October. I went ahead and got the chicken coop first.

O ok that's a great of plan. Unlike me I wasn't expecting to get chickens when a rooster showed up at my house. So I didn't have the chance to build a coop before we got chickens.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Or put up cardboard.... I do tarps over chainlink... so rub points are everywhere. I have also layed PVC across to make the tarp do a peak so the only place touching are the edges. The peak makes water run off better... Not perfectly but better.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh I wish. That was taken during my visit to the Tulsa fair. I currently don't have any chicks/hens, yet. Getting my birds in October. I went ahead and got the chicken coop first.

OH MY GAWD..... someone who actually built a coop FIRST..... Awesome.... and Welcome

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Lots of help and opinions here..... VBG. Love the design "big doors" for access.

deb

 

[Latestarter]

... I currently don't have any chicks/hens, yet. Getting my birds in October. I went ahead and got the chicken coop first.

What kind of chickeneer are you? You're giving the rest of us a bad name!

Don't you know you're supposed to get the chicks first, THEN start building the coop?!?! Then get side tracked so that they are full grown before you actually get the coop finished? You NEED to have chickens running around inside your house, the significant other threatening divorce proceedings, and all your friends thinking you've finally gone over the edge! That's the best fun of chicken ownership dontchaknow.