Storage, Anyone?

[coolcanoechic]

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Thank you! We planned a long time for it after going through every coop page on this site. What a great site this is!

I don't know what I'd do without this site. I turn to it each time I have a question!
I am in love with your coop, it is beautiful. Wonderful job...just goes to show that taking your time and doing your research really pays off!!

Ha ha, It took us 3 months to build since we kept changing the plan as we went along. I wish it were a little bigger though, so I can have more chickens......don't tell hubby that!

I have three hens there now and they really seem to like it.

 

[fireguy56]

Hi, Here is what I came up with for our second coop...a Bantam coop , for keeping feed , shavings, etc....

It's an outside storage cabinet in the run so easy access for feeding, etc. Under roof so no water can get in. Small but functional. good luck with what ya decide to do.
Erik

 

[TinyChickenLady]

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Love the wall color.

Thanks. I let my boyfriend pick it

 

[LakeMurrySC]

We have a 12x16 shed/coop. The coop part is 8x12 and other part is storage for all the chicken goodies and some misc lawn equipment (nothing powered or would have an exhaust on it). We built one very large to accomidate additonal chickens and to have room for all their supplies. We keep a bale of hay, few bags of feed, scratch, waters, feeders, etc in the storage side. Also we did a brooder in the storage side for when spring comes and we had our additions. No pictures at this time... Sorry

 

[Judy]

Two metal garbage cans in the coop hold feed, BOSS, grit and oyster shell. I also have a pen in the coop, about 5'x5', to hold an injured chicken, broody and chicks, or whatever. There's a pile of stuff in a corner of it -- unused feeders, plastic bins for nests, etc. Also a partly used bale of hay and an open bag of pine shavings. And I even have a crippled chicken living in there at present. I guess what would be ideal is a storage area, around 3'x6' on the floor with a shelf, separated from the chickens, plus a pen inside the coop to separate a chicken.

 

[LittleRedCoop]

Thanks everyone

I'm getting some really good ideas!

 

[littlefork]

We did the same thing, our coop is 12'x12' with two 4'x8' storage areas on each side. One storage area is for the chickens stuff and the other one is currently for garden tools. The chickens area is T shaped, the longer area is their roosting room with the nest boxes under the roosts with a poop board between them. The nest boxes have doors that open up into the chicken storage area. The main door to the coop opens into the storage area and then you go thru another door into the coop, I think this is the best part of the coop, no escapees when you open the door. We put a window in the wall between the storage area and the storage area so we can see the chickens on their roosts. The only thing we did not do that I wish we had was to have a people door that opened from either the coop or the storage area into the run. We plan on building a potting shed next summer and moving all the garden tools into that, so the garden storage area will become the brooding area.

Good luck with whatever you decide, I spent a lot of time on here looking at all the coops and picking out the features that we wanted.

 

[Patricia Jane]

I use 2 aluminum trash cans to store food/scratch and pine shavings in the covered run. In an overhang outside next to the run I have another trash can to hold cleaningsupplies, scrapers, gloves etc and an extra bucket to clean the poop boards. All meds in a cupboard on my back porch.

Your coop looks warm, cozy, clean and safe. That's what makes for happy chickens.

 

[kathyinmo]

My layers coop is 16'x12' walk in style coop. I have a 4'x4' storage pen. Click on "my page" to see specifics.

 

[LittleRedCoop]

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I really like your setup, and your page

thanks for sharing!!