Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

[Fluffy&Cutie]

Love your girls!!!!

Aww, thank you. I miss them outside, now. while the coop was being built they were in the living room. i miss seeing them all day long. im just waiting for the cold/rain to burst into sunshine! Thank you!

 

[No More Empty Nest]

Here's mine, houses 4 bantam pullets in the city. The large roo inside the run in the first picture is a metal yard decoration, lol. That picture was taken just after it was built, before I had my chickens.

The poop board is off center because they all roost at that end every night. My cochin closest to the window. She likes to look out the window as it gets dark. There's a thermometer/hygrometer on the wall and the ribbon was to watch if there were any drafts in it. I ended up hanging a heavy piece of cloth about a foot in front of the ventilation area. The ventilation area runs the width of the coop at roof height. The fabric stops the draft that occurred with a south wind. The inclined roof would catch all the breeze and funnel it right into the coop.

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

i put this in homemade because we macgyvered everything- even changed up the prefab. I’m in an industrial area and our marine engine business has a back lot. I took over 90x90 years ago for my agility training yard. I had a chicken show up
In a tree so now I’m into my chickens. I have limited space now because I have to leave room for customer boats can’t block the doors to a storage container, etc. I had to work around a major gate opening and a big storage shipping container. Of course I didn’t know about chicken math when I built lucky Clucky her coop and got her a friend. That coop was a prefab and it’s perfect for them. Then someome brought me a chick. My friend has been brooding / whelping it for me. That chick got a wooden doghouse retro fitted to a 2-3 bird coop. Then today my friend and I macgyvered up a much larger coop out of a bunch of left over coop parts a friend gave me as I have some Cochins and Wyandotte’s coming sunday. My coop situation is a little village of individual buildings with enclosed chicken runs linking them. Pics from top- the doghouse coop - yep there’s a ladder for it and it has 2 nesting boxes inside and a cubby to nap in underneath. Pic 2 some of the coop parts I was gifted yesterday. The coop in progress. 2 story the bottom is a sand bath area and has multiple roosts and 4 egg boxes I can get to by opening roof. Everything still in progress but is fully fenced w a roof and is preditor safe. Last pic one of the runs. I have a gate in the run to divide up into 3 different secure areas. I plan to have bantams in their coop have a short run and having gate at start of container closed do big birds get the extra long run. It’s all paved w pavers due to very questionable soil- there was an oil rig on the property in the 50s. New straw and sod coming In on Monday after the rainstorms. So the compound is for 2 bantams 1 chick 2 Cochins and 1 or 2 Wyandotte’s ( we will see what I get on Sunday) I don’t plan on expanding- but you never know

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

View attachment 1635736 I don't have a picture of the inside, but there are just several roosts, and then some built in nesting boxes on the right side.

Super cute

 

[secretevo]

outside of our coop

3 nesting areas

Roosting perches

 

[paneubert]

I guess I don't have a really good set of photos that show my overall setup. Just a bunch of random photos of different parts. My coop is built under a second story deck on my house. Just framed in the deck with hardware cloth and put up some wind blocking via roofing panels mounted within some of the hardware cloth.

Auto chicken pop door, roosts, poop board, ramp, big communal nest box, etc....

Some photos from before I converted this from quail to chickens. So these are before the auto-door was put in, before the roofing panels for wind break, apparently before I built a human sized staircase from the deck down to the backyard, etc...

 

[Muscovy-palooza]

Here's my coop (notice how the interior and exterior photos are of the same structure? I'm especially proud of that, hehe):
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Very nice coop!

 

[drumstick diva]

In some area/states insurance companies will not provide coverage if a chicken coop is attached in any way to the home/under decks etc. Due to fire risk.

 

[Muscovy-palooza]

In some area/states insurance companies will not provide coverage if a chicken coop is attached in any way to the home/under decks etc. Due to fire risk.

Really!? Would something like that be in your policy?

 

[Thechickentrainer1999]

How much did that outside fencing curved like a snake cost? And where'd you get it?

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