post your chicken coop pictures here!

[Gundawg]

Thanks Penny where is Mossy Rock?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Down highway 12 east 21 miles from !-5
had you popped into our washington group on here

 

[junkman56]

very nice looking coop, you did a fine job building

 

[Intheswamp]

Here are the last of my build pictures it is complete now kind of. I pressure washed it today and in a couple days I will spray some wood preservative on it but all construction is now done. The last step was trim and bats on the board and bat siding. I am so glad it is done and I am still waiting for that first egg they are 17 weeks old now.

Mike

It ended up really nice, Mike. Excellent job. Something that will be there for a long, long time.

 

[walleyeguy01]

It's nothing big, 40"D by 90"W by 74"T for maybe 5 or 6 chickens but enough for a newbie. My wife got the bug after baby setting a friends chickens. Wont have chickens till next spring as have yet to build the run as we live in town where free range is not allowed. Would like and try posting pictures of it from start to finish in my coop area but still learning to navigate the site.

 

[junebuggena]

It's nothing big, 40"D by 90"W by 74"T for maybe 5 or 6 chickens but enough for a newbie. My wife got the bug after baby setting a friends chickens. Wont have chickens till next spring as have yet to build the run as we live in town where free range is not allowed. Would like and try posting pictures of it from start to finish in my coop area but still learning to navigate the site.

Pretty, but needs more ventilation.

 

[walleyeguy01]

Thank you. I do have some ventilation built in lets see if I can get some more pictures here.

 

[junebuggena]

Thank you. I do have some ventilation built in lets see if I can get some more pictures here.

Venting needs to be constant and permanent. Not enough in that coop.

 

[MeepBeep]

Venting needs to be constant and permanent. Not enough in that coop.

Yep, ventilation should be open 24/7 every day every night and in all weather conditions... If it can be and/or is ever closed like a window, door, or shutter (as is the case here) it should not be counted towards the ventilation minimum...

Also as said, that is not really enough, I'm estimating your vent to be about 36" long at the base and about 8" tall at back that is about 144 inches or 1 sqft per side, enough for 2 maybe 3 birds if left open all the time...

Ideally you also want lower and upper vents to allow air flow in and out in a small coop like that...

The key is to provide a lot of ventilation with no breeze inside the coop especially where the birds roost, it appears your vents are directly inline with the roosting area and that will create a cross draft across the roost something you want to avoid...

 

[Sylvester017]

Thank you. I do have some ventilation built in lets see if I can get some more pictures here.

Chickens are prone to respiratory issues and get sniffles if the poop builds up too much ammonia air inside a poorly vented coop. Ventilation was a concept that took us a little time to understand and is not the same as an open area that can cause a draft over the roost bars. When we realized we needed about a square foot per chicken of constant ventilation (not drafts) in cold as well as hot weather, our newest coop did not have enough ventilation for our 5 hens. Manufacturers always overstate the amount of hens their coops will accommodate - they recommend 14 to 16 hens for our 4x4x6 Barn Coop. But we safely should have only 4 hens in our 16 sq feet of floor space. How the manufacturer thinks 16 hens crowded into a little space with inadequate ventilation vents is beyond my understanding. What we did was order a slide-in floor for our coop with heavy dog kennel wire bottom and now there's plenty of ventilation for our extremely hot summer days. For winter our solid floor tray can be inserted back in and the pop-door can stay safely open for more air - the pop-door leads into a safely locked (heavy-duty) dog kennel run attached to the coop.
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Ventilation vents located high above the perch mounts are always open over the window wall (windows don't open & stay stationary)


Ventilation vents are always open over the chicken pop-door wall - constant cross ventilation exists between the two opposite walls way above the perches but still not nearly enough ventilation for 4 to 5 hens.


In our 100o temps we HAD to have more ventilation and a heavy sturdy dog kennel floor was the answer for keeping plenty of air in the coop during our most brutal summer heatwaves. The ammonia poops dropped to the ground instead of staying inside the coop. The dog kennel wire floor works so well we might keep it installed through winter and maybe cover half of it with a plywood board in front of the nestboxes to block possible winter up-drafts from the ground. We'll play it by ear to see how the winter weather goes - we don't get snow or freezing temps at all. There are some minor things I don't like about this easy-to-assemble coop but this optional heavy duty dog kennel wire floor is something we're very glad we ordered. It's easier to get the optional kennel floor than having to punch out the solid windows to install slide-open windows ourselves (which wouldn't work anyway because the windows are right at perch level and would cause a draft over the roosting hens if open).


Other than roosting or laying eggs, hens hardly use a coop. They spend the day out in the run or foraging free-range so a run/foraging area needs to be large while a coop only needs a couple nestboxes and a little space to adequately house sleeping hens (adequately ventilated per chicken).

I love your choice of red for your coop. I love red coops but DH convinced me to go with a neutral beige to match our house stucco

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