Tacky coop & run contest ****Update: It's time to vote!!!!!***

[Gallusfarm]

UPDATE: America: It's time to vote!!!

Take some time this weekend to vote on these wonderfully tacky coops!! Thanks to the great idea from Tannubyky, let's open this up for voting, American Idol-like. Let's close it for entries today (not that any additional entries wouldn't be entertained). And EVERYONE can vote!!! I'll tally up the votes sometime next week and post the winners! Try to have your votes in by Wednesday, May 12!

Post your selection for the following:

3rd place
2nd place
1st place

Honorable Mention:

and .... That's not THAT tacky pick:


Let the voting begin!!!

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Sorry, no prize. Please submit pictures of your coop/ run - the tackier, the cheaper, the better. The only rule is that you must not have lost a chicken to predators since housing them there.

Here's mine: To get us started, this really isn't too bad. Husband and FIL made the pretty red coop last year, but no run. We started losing chickens like crazy and I rounded up some scrap 2 x 4s hardware cloth and that green plastic fencing for keeping the deer out of your plants and I'm good... Oh, and my trusty staple gun. Note: that the chicken tractor doo dad is a special add on for variety.

And now, I present Tent City: I made this. It's looks so bad and husband is so embarassed by it, but I'm proud as a peacock. It even has a little door that I made from an animal cage, and on the end I took the other 1/2 of the animal cage and use the small door to open & put in water/food. They have plastic bins atop cinder blocks for nest boxes.

Tent city is a band aid I suppose, and we are working on a nice run/pen. Husband is really starting to get mad about it, because I keep adding on. I will have to post pictures of the wonderful features. The portion from the hutch to the right is what we call Phase II of the development.

I can't wait to see some other cheap runs - if I can make this - anyone can

Function over form, you know?

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

YOU WIN!!! I thought mine was bad thank for showing me yours now I don't feel so bad

This coop was made by useing tin Iwe had laying around the yard as well the 2x4's are were all used before the door in the one picture is the Human door the pop door is next to it on the ground level the coop cost me maybe 7-8 dollars for screws so fo My first coop I think it was very green because no trees were killed to make this coop all this was reused or found the only thing new on this is the screws my girls seem to love it.

Same coop just different view

ETA: I call it MAD MAXX Beyond CHICKENDOME

The DW thought it was very funny when I told after I got done building it.... So Laugh all you want My girls love the room they have in it and hey it was all FREE!!!

 

[harleychick]

I love that you keep adding on and your husband is going crazy about it! So funny!

I wish I had pictures of a temp coop/run I made last year while waiting "patiently" for my hubby to get the real
thing finished. My neighbor liked to come over just to laugh at my carpentry non-skills.

 

[Mrs. Green Thumbs]

Awww I want to post but mine isn't even done yet let alone have housed my girls in. I'll post when It's done.

 

[gryeyes]

Oh, I'll be back to edit this some more.... My run is far tackier than the coops, so I haven't been taking pictures of IT on purpose. I'll fix that tonight, if possible. Meanwhile, here's my so-called "tractor" which is immovable and rather lop-sided. But the chickens love it. They lay eggs in the upstairs nest boxes and take naps and do their dust-bathing downstairs. The Lakenvelder sisters sleep upstairs at night.

Yes, that IS pink paint - from the Lowe's "OOPS!" paint rack.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I like this kinda post. I will take a pic of my very first tacky coop and post this evening.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I am SOOOOOO going to win this contest!

My very first coop from 5 years ago:




http://www.nifty-stuff.com/chicken-coop.php

 

[Gallusfarm]

This is good stuff. Ya'll are cracking me up. There is some stiff competition, I can see that already!

 

[roguechick]

I'd hate to be the neighbor for some of these.

 

[kuntrygirl]

A few years ago, a relative told me that he knew how to build chicken coops. This was the shocking result days later.

Although, I had more chicken housed built, I keep them because the chickens really love the tacky coops.