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My husband and I built our coop. I still pinch myself every time I think about how lucky I am to have a nice coop for my girls. We put details of how we built it up on our page. I can’t decide which would be the most important thing that we included, water, electricity or their porch. They are...

My husband and I built our coop. It has turned out to be one of the most favorite things we have ever done together. The girls are totally spoiled and have a home for life. Every evening just about and some times during the day too, I go down and sit with them on their covered porch. They...

I made them. Nothing fancy, just cut some material the width I needed it hemmed them and then sewed a seam for the rod to go through.

Hi Grammie, Thanks for your post. That’s exactly why I wanted water run to the coop. Dust seems more of an issue for me. I do have poop boards under the roosts which helps so much. I just scrape everything into a bucket and into the compost pile it goes. The walls were painted with a good...

Hi Patsy, Thank you for your sweet comments. The fish scale was a special order from Home Depot I believe. It is the resin type material and the pieces lock together. Hubby will say that getting that in place was the hardest part of the whole coop. But I too love it 😊

I love my linoleum flooring. It cleans up so nice. I’ve had it in my coop for 8 years now and it looks new. Also have it on the poop boards and they get scraped down every day. Only have changed them out twice now.

We had a very smart raccoon a couple years ago. He found a hole in my netting over the run. We have an automatic door on the coop, which he was able to raise the door, go in get a chicken and not only raise the door back up, but bring the dead chicken outside the coop. He got 9 of my girls...

can you use organic pellets by Purina to ferment or does it have to be special feed? Ty

I would say a lot has to do with how well they are held and loved when they are chicks. My girls line up to be held, sometimes 3 or 4 are piled together trying to sit in my lap at once. Silly girls

I absolutely love my coop. Bigger is always better and mine is already big. It would have been nice to have a separate area for babies and also hens who want to sit r to break them from sitting. What I love about mine is electricity, running water including sink, auto poop door opener, brand...

I have a young Barred Rock doing the same thing. Now 2 other chickens are joining her. Little pile of eggs under the big nest boxes. Crazy ladies!!