What does your dream coop have?

[chickenn00b11]

Massive ventilation.

Walk-in.

Divisible to allow separation of subflocks and/or rotation through pens/runs.

Built-in brooder area and a place for one or more broodies to raise chicks.

Outside access to feeders, waterers, and nestboxes.

Electricity and water.

Storage.

SOunds sorta like mine...

 

[KatkyCampbell]

This was so helpful! We are in the middle of expanding our coop/run and I never thought about making an access from the outside for the nesting boxes. I was just going to build them and put them in there, but DING! Lightbulb went off. If I put them on a certain wall then I can make a door to get the eggs! Then I don't have to put on my "chicken poop" shoes to go check for eggs each day! THANK YOU! Still new to all of this and hearing from other experience is so helpful! Also going to work on the feeding from the outside next!

 

[Compost King]

My dream coop is is a glass greenhouse with rabbit cage metal fencing around the plants that they can peck at as they grow outside of their cage confinement. When its too hot during the day they go outside and forage, when its cold in winter they can come inside and forage on the plants growing in the greenhouse. Might be too humid inside for chickens though. Its my dream not the chickens dream so screw'Em!

 

[PioneerChicks]

My dream coop is is a glass greenhouse with rabbit cage metal fencing around the plants that they can peck at as they grow outside of their cage confinement. When its too hot during the day they go outside and forage, when its cold in winter they can come inside and forage on the plants growing in the greenhouse. Might be too humid inside for chickens though. Its my dream not the chickens dream so screw'Em!

Where there's a will, there's a way!

 

[Compost King]

Where there's a will, there's a way!

I have no will to spend the money on glass for a greenhouse. I did build a greenhouse this fall out of plastic. I considered keeping my Seramas in it but a predator could just slice through the plastic and even if the birds are in a cage I didn't want a predator cutting through and letting cold air in.

 

[PioneerChicks]

I have no will to spend the money on glass for a greenhouse. I did build a greenhouse this fall out of plastic. I considered keeping my Seramas in it but a predator could just slice through the plastic and even if the birds are in a cage I didn't want a predator cutting through and letting cold air in.

Don't mess with the details yet...dream on!

 

[SnootyHen]

First it would be huge so I never have to wonder if I can REALLY fit any more chickens. It would have electricity so I can run one of those big ass fans and a heated waterer for our stupid cold winters and some fun decorative lighting that my chickens won't care about but I will when I take a million pictures. A separate area for brooding. And if I am building my dream coop, it's going to be where roosters are allowed so I can let my hens brood their own. A run tall enough for me to walk in (my coop is but my run is only 5' and I am 5'6" so...) and in it one of those natural branch swingsets. And the outside will be a little house or a castle or something but with plants that deter flies and a little chicken garden that I won't care if they destroy because my real garden is somewhere else and this one is just for them.

And a coop cam so I can watch them when they aren't looking and see the funny silly things they do.

 

[chickenn00b11]

First it would be huge so I never have to wonder if I can REALLY fit any more chickens. It would have electricity so I can run one of those big ass fans and a heated waterer for our stupid cold winters and some fun decorative lighting that my chickens won't care about but I will when I take a million pictures. A separate area for brooding. And if I am building my dream coop, it's going to be where roosters are allowed so I can let my hens brood their own. A run tall enough for me to walk in (my coop is but my run is only 5' and I am 5'6" so...) and in it one of those natural branch swingsets. And the outside will be a little house or a castle or something but with plants that deter flies and a little chicken garden that I won't care if they destroy because my real garden is somewhere else and this one is just for them.

And a coop cam so I can watch them when they aren't looking and see the funny silly things they do.

I was going to add coop cams. 1 one the inside and 3-5 on the outside.

 

[3KillerBs]

This was so helpful! We are in the middle of expanding our coop/run and I never thought about making an access from the outside for the nesting boxes. I was just going to build them and put them in there, but DING! Lightbulb went off. If I put them on a certain wall then I can make a door to get the eggs! Then I don't have to put on my "chicken poop" shoes to go check for eggs each day! THANK YOU! Still new to all of this and hearing from other experience is so helpful! Also going to work on the feeding from the outside next!

I had this style of top-opening nest box, but found that after a number of years the roof started to leak (though that *may* have been due to a branch coming down during Florence).

We've switched to this style of front-drop nestbox. I haven't tried it in practice yet because the girls aren't quite at POL, but I'm hoping it will be superior.

I've also seen sliding door access to interior boxes.

 

[BleuSaphir]

I have not build my dream coop. If I did, I want a sturdy build, a structure what would
compliment my property surroundings.

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This would be it. A beautiful Mediterranean style chicken coop! Compliment with a Mediterranean style garden.