Tacky Coop and Run Contest 2011: Winners Announced!

[juliechick]

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Can I park my Hennebago in your chicken trailer park?

We got this after hubby and I had to move our "permanent" chicken coop twice across town in one year. (From old house to rent house to new house.) Almost broke our backs! Plus, it was funny to see us riding down the city streets with a chicken coop in the back of the truck and me and the boys sitting on it so it wouldn't fall off. DH prefers our chickens to be more incognito. So, now, we can just hitch on and go. Except I snuck a chicken tractor beside it for some new chickens.

By the way, I love this thread!

 

[tdgill]

Love it! I'd say it falls under the 1 and 4 definitions LOL (edited to add: Not what you'd normally consider "fashionable" but who knows! Time will tell! I WANT ONE TOO!)

TACKY
1. not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
2. shabby in appearance; shoddy: a tacky, jerry-built housing development.
3. crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude.
4. gaudy; flashy; showy.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism ; apparently identical with earlier tack ( e ) y small horse, pony, poor farmer; of obscure origin

LOVE THIS THREAD oxoxoxoxo. Looking to find ideas to give my chicken shed some character. And why is it that the tackiest, junkiest, pieces parts coops and runs are still heart warmingly adorable????

double edit to add my shed coop and run

triple edit to mention that I now use aluminum tent poles to hold up the leaf net from my mom's 20x40 pool....and it looks much more tidy. lol. OMG another edit to add that I also use this net as a movable tractor. Just drag it out into the front yard, lay fence rails on the edges and put up the 6 tent poles. It holds up real well even in moderate winds.

 

[OzawkieBantams]

Here is mine.
This is the hobo jungle. The coop is the underside of my deck. It smells great at the bbq's.

then there is my pheasant pen.

And for my veiwing pleasure.

Then there is this my pigeon coop a dog house sitting on top of my shed.......what a redneck.

Daren

 

[lorihadams]

Okay, this is fantastic....this is probably pale in comparison to the "trailer park group"....really funny to me cause I live in a doublewide myself, but here is mine...

Two sawhorses and zip-tied hardware cloth with a piece of lattice on top. This was my chick pen and it was located inside my big chicken run....I used this while they were growing out so they could have grass but not get picked on by the big girls or get picked off by the hawks. They slept out in it every night but if got too cold I would scoop them up and move them to a little isolation pen for the night. They prefered to be out in this though.

And here is my brooder for my meat chicks....yes it is the truck bed from a really old dodge truck that we painted beige (it was carolina blue and rust before LOL) we love it!

 

[tgperg]

Okay, this is totally for me! I am entering the coop we built last summer. It's made out of all recycled materials. The base and walls are made from pallets we scrounged at various businesses. The exterior walls, part of the interior walls and the floor are made from exterior grade plywood we bought from some guy who had used it as shelving. The back interior wall is made from discarded bookshelf backs that Barnes & Nobel threw out. The metal roofing came out of a junkpile at a monastery. (Seriously!) The windows and doors were bought used off craigslist. The roof joists are packing frames we got from a lawn and garden business. They got ZTR mowers packed in them. The roof, floor, and walls are all sheathed with plastic political signs (really!) that we picked up after the elections (with the city code enforcement officer's blessing). The flashing on the corners was from a leftover project the prior owners of our house had completed. We made the nest boxes out of plastic stackable organizers. The roosts are made from trees we had on our property that got uprooted during a flood last summer. We even bought the nails and screws at the Habitat For Humanity Restoration Station. We have lost one chicken and one guinea to predators, but NOT while housed in the coop. They were free ranging over our five acres.

I have to explain the sign. A local candidate had small signs on his larger campaign signs that said "Ask a Cop", regarding his stance as "tough on crime". We just HAD to take two of them to make the "Ask a coop" sign.

Here is an entire photo album with progress pictures, and descriptions of the process. https://picasaweb.google.com/tgperg/ChickenCoop#

And here is a photo album with pictures from when we had it moved. I decided it was a little bit TOO tacky to go in my front yard so we moved it out to the pasture. https://picasaweb.google.com/tgperg/CoopMoving#

Good luck everyone!

Traci Perg

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Nice! That's tacky

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Fantastic!!!

 

[allen wranch]

WOW !

What clever coop ideas....

Wish everyone could be on the Austin coop tour. Most of the coop owners on the tour are into sustainablity and recycling. All of these coops would fit right in.

Good job everyone !

 

[tammyd57]

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I LOVE the signs! But I think it's only tacky if those politicians didn't win, (as in: they lost, now they're relegated to chicken coop siding) LOL.

Now I'm kicking myself for not thinking of the same thing after the elections a few months ago. I'll be ready next time though!

 

[tgperg]

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Um, they did win, but I opposed them in the elections. My thought process was: "I'm going to line my chicken coop with these things because IMO those politicians aren't good for much more than cleaning up chicken poop."

Traci