This is an easy chicken coop to make for anyone with basic carpentry skills. It is 8' x 12' with the front wall being 10' high and the back wall being eight feet high. This gives you a 3/12 roof pitch. In order to determine your roof pitch all you have to do is take the difference between your front wall and back wall in inches. In this case it's 24". Then you take the width of your building in feet and divide it into the difference between your front and rear wall. On the inside I made eight nesting boxes measuring 12"x12" and two nesting boxes 16"x16". Also there is a shelf under the roosts in order to catch all the droppings. Below is a list of the items that you need to build the coop along with pictures from start to finish. The prices below are from my local Home Depot.
I ended up trimming the entire coop and windows with some Western Red Cedar that I had left over from another project. The chicken run is 20' wide my 90' long and 8' high. The only reason it is 8' high is because we have a lot of coyotes and cougars that could easy jump a four foot fence. Finally I strung some 30lb fishing line across the top of the run to keep out the Chicken Hawks. If you look close you can see the fishing line in some of the pictures.
**You can make this chicken coop turn key, for just under $1000.00; however I decided to finish the inside. I insulated the entire coop and then put up some 3/8" plywood and painted it white. I covered the gable ends
in Western Red Cedar and added the finally touches, (shelf, artwork, clock, thermometer, etc...) Total cost for just the inside was $349.00.**
Smart Siding - $29.98 per sheet
12 sheets = $359.76 PAID
3/4 sub floor - $26.58 per sheet
3 = $79.74 PAID
2x6x12 pressure treated -$12.57
Floor Joist
2 = $25.14 PAID
2x6x8 - pressure treated - $7.77
Floor Joist
10 = $77.70 PAID
4x6x12 pressure treated - $29.97
Foundation Runners
2 = $59.94 PAID
2x4x8 $2.68
Wall's
42 = $112.56 PAID
2x4x12 $4.42
Wall's
6 = $26.52 PAID
2x4x10 $3.69
Rafters
10 = $36.90 PAID
3 1/2" screws 3lbs - $25.41 PAID
3 1/2" screws 5lbs - $25.87 PAID
Steel Door 36 x 80 - $65.00 PAID
2 Windows 29" x 47" Free
Metal Roofing 3' x 10', 4 sheets = Free
Total (Turn Key) - $894.51 + Tax $75.14 =
$969.65
Total (Inside) - $349.62
Grand Total - $1319.27
