What do you like/not like about your coop?

[Abriana]

I am doing animal husbandry this year as a science and for an assignment I am asking what do you like or not like about your current coop or past coops? Things you would change, add on, etc.
You can include pictures too!

 

[DobieLover]

I am doing animal husbandry this year as a science and for an assignment I am asking what do you like or not like about your current coop or past coops? Things you would change, add on, etc.
You can include pictures too!

I HATE that I cannot walk-in my current coop and run. It kills my back. I have it linked in my profile info.

I am underway converting my shed into my new coop.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I like my current coop just fine though I wish I had room to go a bit bigger, as an indoor (or even outdoor, like a mini porch) storage space would've been a nice bonus.

 

[flyin-lowe]

Things I like about mine are the coop and run are plenty tall enough to walk around in and my nest boxes are accessible from the outside. Plus I built it with 4 windows, open eaves all the way around and a ridge vent so ventilation has never been an issue.

 

[tripletfeb]

I love how my hubby made our coop! I can walk in the run to clean it, it is super easy to clean the coop. The bottom, long door opens down to make cleaning it easy. The nesting box is accessible from the outside and you can't tell in the picture but the food is in a gravity style feeder on the back, looks like a silo! Lots of ventilation all the time and open windows in the summer.

 

[aart]

Here's a bunch of threads to peruse:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/search/54243124/?q=coop+mistakes&t=post&o=date&c[title_only]=1

I like My Coop just fine, I spent a lot of time researching before building.
I do wish it was bigger and that I had a solid roof on my run.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Interesting question, things I like about my coop.

It's big enough that I have flexibility to deal with issues when they show up. Just having extra room makes life a lot easier and reduces stress. It's hard to express how much I treasure that flexibility.

It's built and outfitted with my goals in mind. My main goals are to raise chickens for meat and to play with genetics. So my set-up can handle one rooster and 6 hens or it can handle as may as 50 chickens of various ages. I can raise chicks in my built-in brooder or let broody hens raise chicks with the flock.

It's pretty maintenance-free. I use droppings boards to gather poop for my compost pile and keep the total amount if poop in the coop down, plus the coop stays dry. I clean the bedding out of the coop once every three or four years, not because I need to but because I want that stuff on my garden.

Since I'm often integrating I have separate roosts, different heights and far enough away from each other so the juveniles can roost apart from the adults. That keeps them from sleeping in my nests.

I made my nests so I can lock a chicken in them if I want to. That's come in handy for different reasons.

I have a big pretty predator resistant run that I can lock all the chickens in if I need to. I also have a much larger area inside electric netting which protects from ground based predators. I have a grow-out coop with a small dedicated run next to the main run, plus a shelter out on the electric netting area, so I can isolate chickens if I need to. Again. lots of flexibility.

I have electricity in the coop so I can brood in the coop. It helps to have lights in there. I have electric outlets I can plug tools or other stuff in if I need to.

Either my brooder or grow-out coop can double as broody busters if they are not filled with chicks or I have room to hang a dog crate in my coop if both are busy.