Chicken coop ideas

[BLACKFINTURKEY]

Looking for some inspiration for our coop, I have 16 chicks needing a permanent home. Time for another project! Post up some pictures and ideas for a nice coop/run.

[QuackHunter]

I am currently building this coop. We only have 8 chicks however

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1236369887/modern-chicken-coop-plans-chicken-coop?gbraid=0AAAAADtcfRKtUetxhMn5sI1OLBU7Sd2Ka&gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_c-craft_supplies_and_tools-patterns_and_how_to-patterns_and_blueprints&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjw3POhBhBQEiwAqTCuBjbdZI5RRgfVxzkRhcfIr_w54o1LBQr1AKiZkGBFhPDa5LT36khF8hoCGtAQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_1843970770_66522690901_346397934385_aud-1118323511438:pla-322726483858_m__1236369887_569444762&utm_custom2=1843970770&gbraid=0AAAAADtcfRKtUetxhMn5sI1OLBU7Sd2Ka&gclid=CjwKCAjw3POhBhBQEiwAqTCuBjbdZI5RRgfVxzkRhcfIr_w54o1LBQr1AKiZkGBFhPDa5LT36khF8hoCGtAQAvD_BwE

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[KDinTX]

Built this one last September for my daughters chickens. Currently only 4 in there but plenty of room for more.






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[Pstraw]

Check out the KCA Ranch thread. Page 33 on. Chew has a nice setup.

[Killer]

I converted a 10ftx10ft chain link dog pen into my chicken pen/coop. Then used two rabbit hutches for their roosting boxes. Its enough room for 12 chickens.
I set the converted rabbit hutches outside the 10x10 pen and cut a small hole in the chain link and placed the gang plank through the chain link. The hutches are about 3ft off the ground. Put hardware cloth around the hutch and chain link where the gang plank goes through.

Make sue you have a big enough door on the end or back of the roost box to clean it. Makes things a lot easier.

There is literally 100’s of ways to make a chicken coop. Let your imagination run wild!

[JonW]

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[Drycreek3189]

Chew had a good idea for a chicken coop, he made a thread about it. Looked pretty inexpensive to get into also.

[Chew]

Chew had a good idea for a chicken coop, he made a thread about it. Looked pretty inexpensive to get into also.

Thanks! It was originally designed for our 25 meat chickens. But when we butcher those in a month or so I will add some roosts, and nesting boxes.

Hoop Coop made out of cattle panels. Recently added a 100' of electric poultry netting for a run. Freedom Ranger chickens are happy and healthy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10UwyLL1ZcI&ab_channel=KCARanch%26Homestead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csS7SZw_kjg&t=41s&ab_channel=KCARanch%26Homestead

[SaltwaterSlick]

Hey Chris, I built my wife's chicken house very much like a deer stand. It's 4 X 8 foot with a 7 foot metal roof, upper panels covered in hardware cloth (rabbit wire) so when the windows are open, the chickens are still protected from varmits. It has a 3/4" galvanized expanded metal floor so poop just drops through on the ground (it's designed to have a "drawer" under the floor, but I've never put it in. House has an automatic door that opens just before sunrise and closes just after sunset. Have automatic waterers inside the house and outside. The house has 4 laying boxes that are accessible from the outside of the house. The chicken pen is two of those 10 x 10 foot chain link dog kennels I got at Tractor supply that I put together to make it 20 x 20 feet. Now that we're both retired and home most all the time, they free range most of the time. Currently my bride has 15 hens, no rooster and we get 15 to as high as 24 eggs/day.











If you want to entertain yourself and get some ideas for coop designs and runs (and everything else you ever thought you wanted to know about chickens, go to www.backyardchickens.com and look around... I warn you! There's a whole other world out there with these "chicken people"!! Did you know chickens had "Nipples"?! ...well neither did I until I did some reading on that site... Learned about chicken nipples that are used for watering the chickens!! I couldn't get along without them now!! I hooked up half a dozen of them with some PVC fittings and pipe, ran a water hose short piece to a plastic 55 gallon drum full of water... chickens always have water!

Good luck!

[flywise]

I have a little 8x10 coop for 10 chickens. I turn them loose in the morning and lock them in at night.

[texasair]

Been keeping chickens for several years.
Things i have learned.

Chickens poop a lot at night.
Plan on a way to get rid of the poop under where they roost.

Chickens roost high. Put the roost higher that the laying boxes.
Otherwise they will roost in the laying boxes.
See above, "chickens poop a lot at night."

Every other animal likes a chicken dinner.
If you raise chickens, you need to keep a few traps set at all times around your chicken pens.

Regular chicken wire will keep chickens in, but will not keep a determined varmint out.

If you are just raising a few, it is not worth it to buy chicks and devote you time and effort to get them to laying age, you will be better off to buy 4-6 month old pullets.

Chickens will eat anything and like it and prosper, all table scraps of any type go to the chickens to save on feed.

[Mike D]

Tagged as we are about to venture into this.


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[gigem95]

I converted a 10ftx10ft chain link dog pen into my chicken pen/coop. Then used two rabbit hutches for their roosting boxes. Its enough room for 12 chickens.
I set the converted rabbit hutches outside the 10x10 pen and cut a small hole in the chain link and placed the gang plank through the chain link. The hutches are about 3ft off the ground. Put hardware cloth around the hutch and chain link where the gang plank goes through.

Make sue you have a big enough door on the end or back of the roost box to clean it. Makes things a lot easier.

There is literally 100’s of ways to make a chicken coop. Let your imagination run wild!

We did same thing with 10 x 10 dog pen.


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[Gerald G]

There’s a nice coop and chickens for sale in the classifieds