This is the small coop I bought at Tractor Supply for my four Black Australorp hens. It’s called the Producer's Pride Sentinel Chicken Coop, MDC001. I attached 3 of my photos, in the snow, before attaching the XPen, and afterward. I took the chair out of the pen when the hens got larger and needed more room. The rest of the photos are from TSC's website.
I purchased it in December of 2021 and bought my chicks in the spring. It was the display model in their parking lot, so it was already assembled, I got a good discount on the price, and an employee loaded it onto his personal truck and delivered it into my backyard for me. Great Service! It’s been a really nice coop in our situation and has held up very well for a year in our weather. It doesn’t budge in our high winds when we are in our windy season. And I think it’s really cute!
The ad for the coop states it is large enough for six chickens, but my hens are a heavy bodied, full feathered breed and I wouldn’t put more than four in this coop. They are now nine months old and pretty big and filled out, and are doing very well in the coop, which they only use for roosting at night, and laying eggs in the egg boxes. Once or twice, I’ve put them inside the run area and shut the tall metal door when the winds were so high, I needed to secure them from being blown by the wind. After a while, the wind died down, and they were let out to free-range again. I'm retired, so I can keep any eye out...
This is a very secure coop and I can rest at night knowing they are safe from weather and predators until I let them out in the morning. It’s not a coop where I’d keep them all day, they are too big for that.
Once nice thing about the size of this coop is that each morning around 8 am, I open up the lid to the egg boxes on one side, and I can reach in and collect the poop, always in four piles under their roost, into a scoop, and drop it into a Walmart bag, tie it up, and toss it into the outside trash. I clean it every day, it’s easy and quick and the hens retire to a clean coop each night. I only need to clean the entire coop every 3 or 4 weeks.
This would be a good coop for anyone with three or four hens who needed a safe, secure roosting/egg-laying space because the hens were free-ranging all day. If the hens couldn’t free-range during the day, then a large run would need to be put up with the coop inside and the hens would need access to the run during daylight hours. In my opinion, this isn’t large enough to be a stand-alone home, day and night, for any but the smallest of birds.
- Powder coated all steel frame
- Reinforced thick wood panels
- Predator resistant door latches
- Sliding door for chicken coop entrance
- Solid wood ramp
- Easy to clean metal slide-out tray
- Access doors on both sides of coop
- Asphalt roof reinforced with wood
- Pre-drilled holes and pre-assembled panels
- Contains three large nesting boxes
- Accommodates up to 6 chickens
I purchased it in December of 2021 and bought my chicks in the spring. It was the display model in their parking lot, so it was already assembled, I got a good discount on the price, and an employee loaded it onto his personal truck and delivered it into my backyard for me. Great Service! It’s been a really nice coop in our situation and has held up very well for a year in our weather. It doesn’t budge in our high winds when we are in our windy season. And I think it’s really cute!
The ad for the coop states it is large enough for six chickens, but my hens are a heavy bodied, full feathered breed and I wouldn’t put more than four in this coop. They are now nine months old and pretty big and filled out, and are doing very well in the coop, which they only use for roosting at night, and laying eggs in the egg boxes. Once or twice, I’ve put them inside the run area and shut the tall metal door when the winds were so high, I needed to secure them from being blown by the wind. After a while, the wind died down, and they were let out to free-range again. I'm retired, so I can keep any eye out...
This is a very secure coop and I can rest at night knowing they are safe from weather and predators until I let them out in the morning. It’s not a coop where I’d keep them all day, they are too big for that.
Once nice thing about the size of this coop is that each morning around 8 am, I open up the lid to the egg boxes on one side, and I can reach in and collect the poop, always in four piles under their roost, into a scoop, and drop it into a Walmart bag, tie it up, and toss it into the outside trash. I clean it every day, it’s easy and quick and the hens retire to a clean coop each night. I only need to clean the entire coop every 3 or 4 weeks.
This would be a good coop for anyone with three or four hens who needed a safe, secure roosting/egg-laying space because the hens were free-ranging all day. If the hens couldn’t free-range during the day, then a large run would need to be put up with the coop inside and the hens would need access to the run during daylight hours. In my opinion, this isn’t large enough to be a stand-alone home, day and night, for any but the smallest of birds.
