What does your goose coop look like?

[CupOJoe42]

I am in the process of building a large raised chicken coop and got to thinking about whether or not I would be able to use the underside as a goose coop for Sebastopol geese. The chickens would have a separate enclosed run (on either side of the coop) from the geese. My yard is fenced in and I could also extend a run in front of the coop for the geese. I don't have any yet, but would like to get a few in the spring.

Please post pictures of your goose coop and if you have any thoughts/suggestions on whether I would have to build a separate coop, or if I could somehow enclose the bottom of my chicken coop area and make it into a goose coop. You can see my coop build in progress on my BYC page.

 

[pete55]

Hi

We use low shed as their nesting and sleeping quarters. These are about 8ft long, 4 ft deep and about 4.5ft high with a ventilation grill along the top. The centre door means we can use either side as a nesting area and accomadates our trios without any problem.

Pete

 

[1MrsMagoo]

My husband was all picky about our duck and goose housing, since they can be seen from the house.
So, we originally built this one:


The small house is only 6x6 and been taken over by a pair of my Pomeranian Geese. The main house is 8x8. The eaves are all wire for ventilation. The little roofed area on the side is our feeding area: It keeps the feed dry in all but the worst weather.


Then we dug a second pond in the area where the beat up horse trailer is parked in the background....and built this one too....it is about 10x12 inside and we are going to enclose the overhang on the left side with hardware cloth as well for another 3x8 area.

It has a central dividing wall, which can easily be removed and two doors. I guess I'll have to shut the door and take some pictures. We had put in a small fence under the overhang for when the juveniles where too small to be out and about.

We are going to build a third small house in our goat pasture with a small pond this month. We plan on moving our Toulouse pair and a few of the ducks to that house before my Pomeranian goslings reach full size and need more room..

 

[squirrelbug]

Here is a picture of my new "goose coup". I previously had a metal dog kennel, which we split in half (it came apart this way) and built the addition in the middle. The left end has their nest box and is covered with the sides almost closed in. The right side is open so they can see out. There is enough protection and ventilation. They absolutely love it...they only has issues the first night It houses 1 gander and 3 geese (Pilgrims).



Here is the picture of the inside ... please excuse the poo It's got a cedar decking floor so i can wash it all out (once they turn our irrigation water back on in the spring!) until then, I sweep it out.



And finally, here are my sweeties

 

[lovesgliders]

This is what we call Duckingham Palace. It is 24 x 48 (I think) and has a house and a little pool for them (their pool is a buried 600 gal stock tank). We clean the pool using a bilge pump. The pen is secure enough that they sleep under the stars 99% of the time; only on the most brutal of winter nights do we shut them into their house. They prefer it that way. They of course have access to it whenever they want but they don't often use it except to lay. It keeps the food dry, though!

 

[FarmrGirl]

I don't have any pictures of the outside. I have a double-decker duckbarn that's 7 feet tall and 12 feet wide. The bottom section is for my mallard-types and it's 3.5 feet high, then the upper portion is the Muscovy apartment. The Goosehouse is sistered up to the duckbarn (I added it later) with an access door so the geese and ducks can sleep in either section. The Goosehouse is 7' x 7' square. So it's tall enough for me to comfortably get in there standing - unlike the Duckbarn. I built a long row of large Muscovy nest boxes along the wall, way up at the ceiling. The girls access them by a ramp into individual doors on the Muscovy side but I have hatch-doors on the Goosehouse side that makes it easy for me to gather eggs and check on broody girls.

I realized I only took pictures the day I finished the Goosehouse and don't have any recent shots. When I finished it I also decided to partition half of it off with garden netting and house some semifeathered ducklings in there as an introduction to sleeping with the flock (but without access to the flock). I was still cold out so I put a small hut in there with a brooder lamp to keep them warm at night until they got a few more feathers. Here are the pictures:

View from the people door looking in. You can see 2 pop doors that open to different places in the duck yard that can be closed off by gates in case I need to seperate any of the flock. The dark little door is the one giving access into the Duckbarn. This gives me the option of closing off the Goosehouse entirely if I need to seperate anyone. There are now 3 large Muscovy nestboxes at the ceiling over this access door.

You can just barely make out the garden netting stretched from pop door to people door containing the duckling hut and their waterer. (never mind the table lamp-LOL-it was the fastest way to put a light on a timer until I got a permanent solution

)

I'll try to get some pictures of my arrangement right now... or at least of the Muscovy nest boxes.

 

[Robin L]

I just got geese and love looking at what everyones coops look like! Thank you for showing us

 

[Going Bhonkers]

Anyone else out there have any pictures that they can add?

(by the way, to those of you who have already shared your pics, I very much like the set up that you have going on!!)

 

[Going Bhonkers]

Here's a coop picture I found elsewhere on the forum rounds, posted by BYC member promisedland , https://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/5764505

 

[Going Bhonkers]

Goose coop in progress...


As we have come to find out, April & Nine (White Chinese geese) like to be in the middle of everything.

Will post updated picture soon!