Articles by Towhee

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...

Instead of buying a Chicken Coop from my local Feed Store I decide to build my own. I ended up making my Coop 8'x12' with a 3/12 pitched roof. I framed the entire Chicken Coop with 2x4s except for the floor joists which are pressure treated 2x6s. I made 8 nesting boxes that are 12"x12" and 2...