What would the perfect coop and run have?

[HoneyNBenNKids]

Hi! I've been lurking since around November and I had one question for everyone who has designed their coops and runs.....

In your opinion, what would the perfect coop and run have/look like?

If money, time & effort were not an issue....what would your setup look like?

Honey

 

[Bi0s]

it would look like a zoo

 

[suzeqf]

if i had an unlimited budget and could have whatever i would build something like the 2 story storage shed at Lowes but i would add a covered front porch and my run would look like this

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=482852

 

[dweder]

I recently took advice from Dawg53 on BYC, and covered my outdoor run floor with 4 inches of sand. This has turned out to be the best choice I've made yet. I can keep it clean, it doesnt retain moisture and bugs cannot live in it! I originally started out with grass, which died. Then I tried the deep litter method, what a mess!!! The sand floor is the only way to go!!! I took a kitty litter scooper and attached it to the handle of a mop. I simply walk around and scoop out the poop now! I feel like they live in an almost sterile enviroment now!!

 

[patandchickens]

About 20 sq ft per chicken indoors, plus a similar amount of covered run, plus a lot more good outdoor area with mixed vegetation, lots of cover vs hawks, and seriously dogproof fencing.

Pat

 

[Ridgerunner]

What a question. My goals may be quite a bot different from yours but if money were no object.

A large walk-in coop, with a chicken-proof shed attached to store feed and other stuff. Being able to enter the coop either through the run or that shed.

Electricity with a few different outlets, both inside and outside the coop. A light inside the coop with switches at both doors, a light in the shed, and a light outside the coop run door, all on different circuits.

Two more nests than I need with a space attached where I could feed and water, plus poop space. The primary purpose would be to isolate a broody hen, but also a good place to keep an injured chicken with the flock but separated. It could also be a broody buster area.

The coop would have a wall to split it into two separate areas. You could open a door and make it one coop if you wanted. One side would have a built in brooder. After they are ready to leave the brooder, shut the door and they have a separate coop space. Pop doors on each half, leading into a run that could be split. This makes half the coop and run a grow-out space.

Removable roosts.

A large covered run.

A frost-free water spigot just outside the run and coop.

Coop and run positioned where rainwater runoff flows away from them, not toward them.

 

[elmo]

For me, it would be located on 40 acres someplace where I could keep roosters, so I could breed some chicks every spring and wouldn't have to give away all my little cockerels. Oh, and it would have electric and plumbing.

 

[Robert Boyd]

If cash was growing on trees, and I could collect everyday like eggs Id......

Have a farmteck (open walled with curtains)building installed and use a complete enviromental control system,
a drip system, nesting pads, and have a brooder area using washable brooder heat pads.

and better than all this, Id raise a few gesse that laid golden eggs:^}