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I was so sick of feeding rodents and losing birds to predators that I final got serious! I trenched 8" around the perimeter and buried the hardware cloth. I also wanted to see my girls from the house and watch me daughter interact with them. She basically lives with them. They don't like the...

We decided to get chickens, earlier this year, and a few weeks ago (early June 2016) I realized it's time to build them a coop to get them out of the garage. I have no prior experience with building anything this complex, but I felt confident I could do it. I didn't have any formal plans, just a...

Welcome to our coop, brought to you by Dad! This coop just got a giant addition added, but there are no pics of it yet, just construction pics.. Here is the coop!!! This is the entire coop. It can fit up to around 16 chickens. This rock wall and planter were built from rocks we had growing...

Like many, I started with just a couple chickens. Each year I get a couple more and I don't think that will change any time soon. With that in mind, it was time to upgrade my little coop. My original Coop ~~> https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-habitat-hut-re-used-furniture-coop This...

A How-to Article Part 1: building a coop Part 2: cold weather care Part 3: poultry and breed selection Link to my three coop pages: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/my-coop-journey My pond coop. The side walls of the coop are 8 feet tall, plus the eaves and the roof. Part 1: building...

This has been a long time coming. We've had our birds for just over a year and half, but there were some last touches on the coop (A ROOF!) that needed doing before we wrote it all up. Now the top is on, and the flock is growing and this is how we did it... Firstly, we are a family of...

First we want to thank everyone who has posted their stories of building their own coops and how they upgraded existing ones, we couldn't have completed ours without your help. To save money and the desire to have an attractive new chicken coop to replace our ratty old and smaller one lead us...

I had a plan, an item shopping list priced out and all my research done! Sadly my husband does not work like that!!! Designs are figured out in his head and materials purchased as needed. To keep our marriage a happy one, he is refusing to tell me how much the project ended up costing us :) The...

This is a mid-sized coop, built for about 6-8 occupants. It's insulated, and designed with easy maintenance in mind. Above the egg-boxes there's some storage-space. The whole back wall can be opened up to easily scoop out all the litter. The perches are located right in front of this door to...

Our last coop was a large walk-in frame with little house on stilts inside of it. We needed something movable this time around, so I wanted to go with a tractor type design. I decided to do run below with a nesting/roosting house up above. The coop is accessible from the run via a ramp...

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Fall Spring Summer! This is my babies home of homes! In 2010 when I came home with 12 fluffy chicks my husband almost fell over. I told him we have 10 weeks to get a new chicken coop built! And so in June of 2010 he and I started to build the new...

Covered Wagon 3 ft tall x 2 ft wide x 4 ft long 2 nest boxes, fair weather perch, entry gate,free range,organic,mobile Chik'n Hut total length 10 ft with run installed Hutch with 2 Stalls, cage is 38" Tall x 38"Wide x 6 ft long on legs for benefit of the keeper