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[Fields Mountain Farm]

So I'm doing a new addition on my coops, which is why I wanted other ideas.

I've made one of the coops from a pantry cabinet that I took out of my kitchen. It was built by the previous owner from furniture grade plywood (yea, expensive stuff), but when I took it apart, I saved the wood and haven't used it for anything else, so figured what the hell?
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Nice!
Since ive sold my goats, i now have a barn with nothing in it and one hen house and they free range 24/7. But sometimes it would be nice to be able to put them up. And im wanting to start working with specific breeds and i cant to do that now... but soon!
I picked up some chicken wire today and dh is using pallets and various other finds and i will be getting 4 coops with individual runs all under one roof!
Im so excited!

 

[Beckid974]

My chicks and ducklings are still in the brooder, and coop construction has yet to begin, but the majority of it, if not all, will be repurposed wood from the old coop and a recently taken down cellar house. I'm hoping to not have a dime in it!

Yesterday I passed several yard sales. I didn't stop at any, but all I kept thinking was "I wonder if there's anything that I can use for the chickens" lol.. . .Side note, I'm also in WV!!!!!

 

[WVduckchick]

My chicks and ducklings are still in the brooder, and coop construction has yet to begin, but the majority of it, if not all, will be repurposed wood from the old coop and a recently taken down cellar house. I'm hoping to not have a dime in it!

Yesterday I passed several yard sales. I didn't stop at any, but all I kept thinking was "I wonder if there's anything that I can use for the chickens" lol.. . .Side note, I'm also in WV!!!!!

Awesome! Welcome aboard, fellow WVian!

 

[GldnValleyHens]

Post pics later if I can snag a decent camera. We have an antique chair with the seat taken out ( just the frame) in our chicken run that serves as a roost.
And I have my tin duck sign for the duck coop, a antique white wooden rooster for the chicken garden, and a old pink barrel that serves as decor/roost in the chicken garden. You can see part of it in my avatar.
And a piece of barn wood with tin letters that says EGGS. I love cutesy stuff for my chicks

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

My chicks and ducklings are still in the brooder, and coop construction has yet to begin, but the majority of it, if not all, will be repurposed wood from the old coop and a recently taken down cellar house. I'm hoping to not have a dime in it!

Yesterday I passed several yard sales. I didn't stop at any, but all I kept thinking was "I wonder if there's anything that I can use for the chickens" lol.. . .Side note, I'm also in WV!!!!!

Love to see pics of it when it's finished..

Post pics later if I can snag a decent camera. We have an antique chair with the seat taken out ( just the frame) in our chicken run that serves as a roost.
And I have my tin duck sign for the duck coop, a antique white wooden rooster for the chicken garden, and a old pink barrel that serves as decor/roost in the chicken garden. You can see part of it in my avatar.
And a piece of barn wood with tin letters that says EGGS. I love cutesy stuff for my chicks

 

[PirateGirl]

I will add some stuff later. For now I will watch and be inspired.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I will add some stuff later. For now I will watch and be inspired.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

This is a large dog kennel a friend gave me, it didnt have a bottom. Built a wooden box and lined it with a piece from an old truck bed liner. The cage fits snuggle over it. Keeps bedding inside the bottom... its now a transition brooder in the barn.

 

[Aerliss]

No pictures because I'm in bed, but I converted my old rabbit hutch into nest boxes. Cut off its legs, removed the doors, used the solid sleeping compartment door to divide the other part of it into two. Voila, three nesting boxes. And being an old hutch the roof raises for easy access. Although I do have the perch sitting on it.

I took apart the door frames and used them, along with an old pallet I found dumped in the park (heat treated, not chemical treated, I checked) to make the perch, some ramps to get on to the hutch (ex-cage girls will have weak legs and wings to begin with) and steps in and out of the shed.

The old rabbit water bowl holds their grit too. The only things I've bought new are the waterers and a feed trough. The coop itself is a small shed, so I wanted things designed not to be kicked over too easily. Everything else is repurposed. I'm even going to use the hay wrack in the run (an IKEA plastic bag holder) as a green treats holder. They're gonna have to work for those greens.

Next up I've got some nice branches that have been stripped of bark by the buns to turn into swings. I'll try the CDs on strings idea too. And with the few bits of pallet I have left over I'll build a nice little sand box... or I might use an old standard sized litter tray, but I'm thinking it might be a bit small.

I'm growing plants in "pots" in the front for the chucks and the buns (maybe I'll get the odd courgette to myself?). The "pots" are those big plastic veg crates. I scavenged them from work. The best thing about them is that I can move them around. So at night, before the seeds had sprouted, I could stack them all up to stop the local cats and the little free roaming terrier digging them up.

Even the potting material was free; bunny litter compost. I have three compost heaps on the go. Rabbits poop a lot. Can't wait to get the girls and get them working on the heaps!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

No pictures because I'm in bed, but I converted my old rabbit hutch into nest boxes. Cut off its legs, removed the doors, used the solid sleeping compartment door to divide the other part of it into two. Voila, three nesting boxes. And being an old hutch the roof raises for easy access. Although I do have the perch sitting on it.

I took apart the door frames and used them, along with an old pallet I found dumped in the park (heat treated, not chemical treated, I checked) to make the perch, some ramps to get on to the hutch (ex-cage girls will have weak legs and wings to begin with) and steps in and out of the shed.

The old rabbit water bowl holds their grit too. The only things I've bought new are the waterers and a feed trough. The coop itself is a small shed, so I wanted things designed not to be kicked over too easily. Everything else is repurposed. I'm even going to use the hay wrack in the run (an IKEA plastic bag holder) as a green treats holder. They're gonna have to work for those greens.

Next up I've got some nice branches that have been stripped of bark by the buns to turn into swings. I'll try the CDs on strings idea too. And with the few bits of pallet I have left over I'll build a nice little sand box... or I might use an old standard sized litter tray, but I'm thinking it might be a bit small.

I'm growing plants in "pots" in the front for the chucks and the buns (maybe I'll get the odd courgette to myself?). The "pots" are those big plastic veg crates. I scavenged them from work. The best thing about them is that I can move them around. So at night, before the seeds had sprouted, I could stack them all up to stop the local cats and the little free roaming terrier digging them up.

Even the potting material was free; bunny litter compost. I have three compost heaps on the go. Rabbits poop a lot. Can't wait to get the girls and get them working on the heaps!

Sounds like a great set up!!!
You and @WVduckchick need to post some pics...