Show me your coop... PLEASE

[Wrigley62]

 

[EHook518]

I live in Denver. We have a large back yard but are slowly re-landscaping, and since I was so anxious to get chickens, we needed a mobile coop. We used the plans for the City Biddy Double wide and made a few changes. The coop is 6'x3', I call it Casa de Peeps.
First, it was located on the back fence, but we are putting up a new fence so we moved the coop towards the front of the backyard.

New location (and added a flower box!)


Inside:




We made human and chicken doors on both sides so that the run could be attached to either side depending on where we moved it to.

 

[joan1708]

I never get tired of looking at coops and I'm alway amazed at folks' ingenuity and creativity. This thread has some really cute coops! Here's my humble coop. It's on a sloped side yard and low to ground to stay hidden.

 

[jackhorn01]

Great designs and ideas, thanks everyone for sharing.

 

[debjnsn]

I just love seeing everyones coop set-ups. Awesome!

 

[rlhagan56]

Yeah, I can finally show off our hard work, tho still not finished and a work in progress. Only (as DH says) because I got 11 banties for the stray banty cochin rooster we adopted. I told him,"Hey, they were giving them to me half price to get them out." And you all gave me some good ideas for a little bantam coop in the part of our run we fenced off for them.










I love the cute windows and lattice skirt, the run is 16 X 16, the coop is 8 X 8 that we got a heck of a deal on as a damaged closeout. I took a lot of ideas from wonderful, inventive people on here, like the perch and poop board with PDZ. No smell, dries fast, lasts forever, easy to clean, and cleans their feet. We also put bird/deer net, plastic net - UV resistant all around and on the divider for the bantam chicks going out today and it was easy to put up, very inexpensive, and works! No more robberies from those rotten little and big birds. My DH has a cute little hitch rail he needs to put up in front of the *deck* for my miniature horses. I need another place to tie them. We used a lot of leftover materials, like the shadecloth end facing the hot western side. I put sand in the run, I was wondering about that since here we have that crappy, either slimey or dusty clay and in AZ we had sand which was so nice for my chickens and horses. Here it is expensive and course but I have it in the run, the horse pen behind the run (low pen that stays muddy) and in the roundpen. I honestly didn't think it would be as easy to clean as some said, but it is! lightly rake the surface and use the metal pooper scooper. We just need to make a temporary shelter and move babies in the other side until the mini coop is built and get the hitch rail in, rest of the stumps in, and we are done. You can see my little mini filly in the first pic. I love this coop, it is so cool and clean all the time.

 

[3forfree]

I have a coop without acreage - photos on my pages, clickable links below

good luck

Looked through your uploads, the pic of the coons is crazy. did they do any damage or did you take care of them before they could.

 

[ll]

I actually found that photo and saved into my file for inspiration just to keep my coop secure.

Looked through your uploads, the pic of the coons is crazy. did they do any damage or did you take care of them before they could.

 

[jackhorn01]

Money shot, eggs for breakfast and bbq coon for lunch.

 

[AustinEgger]

Some really great original coop designs here. Since I'm 6'3" I wanted ease of entry to all parts of coop as easy as possible so I decided on the Garden Coop plans available online. Made a few changes. Happy with how it turned out as are the ladies.