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Now that is a nice coop. Excellent job!
here is my coop ,it's 8X16 with a feed room that is 8X4, built by myself and a friend,insulated w/ radiant barrier,electric,auto pop door,glass board flooring,low and high vents,poop hammock under level roost .We have 15- 2 week old peeps ,Run is covered completely with 1/4" hardware cloth and put a 2-3 foot skirt completely around the whole compound, 2 auto security lights,Galvelume Metal roof and gutters with 2 rain barrels
 
all the chicks had died but we ended up buying 11 chicks 5 in the first bunch and 6 in the second, out of the first two of them died one got cocoi and the other got squished by a babygate. the remaining ones in the first batch are 15 weeks old and the second batch are 13 weeks old now. very happy in their coop
 
Our coop is complete, today we finished the run and attached it! Right now we have 6 six week old chicks but 4 possibly 5 are roosters so we will be downsizing. Our initial plan was to have 3 or 4 and this coop will be a nice size for that. The run is 3 x 6 and they will be able to free range when I am home. We built this so that it could be moved as we are slowly landscaping the backyard and we will be putting in a new fence so the coop will have to relocate then and maybe move to another permanent spot, who knows!


There are two perches that can come out for cleaning and you can't see the perch that steps into the nest boxes, it folds up for cleaning.

One of my favorite things about this coop, being greeted in the morning by the peeps on their perch!
 


Coop in a sheltered corner of the garden.


recycled concrete path and lawn boarder leading to the coop


the old fence boards are decoration. the hardware cloth extends a foot and a half underground I have no floor. I used pvc as posts to prevent rot

Water and nest access from the outside

My feeder, access from the outside

Secure run, with plexiglass roof 6' x 4' they have access to and 60 sq ft of uncovered run and a tractor during the day. I just cleaned it, normally I have lots of compostables, yard trimmings cut grass leaves etc, and put down a little sod I cut out to make another garden bed.

view of feeder and waterer

nest boxes above the feeder and waterer so they can 't poop in them. There is enough roost space above the nestbox height in the A-frame, so chickens can get up high out of the wind if there is any. We seldom have frost so I am not concerned about heat. I had to put the screen above the boxes so that I don't have any hard surface they can poop on


homemade feeder, holds 25lbs
 

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