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  1. AnitaBheer

    Making a larger hoop coop?

    I am building my first coop and enclosed run. I want to do a hoop style run with cattle panels (the actual coop is a 8x12 shed). But instead of a long skinny run, has anyone welded cattle panels together on the short end and made a wider hoop house? If you take two 16ft panels, overlap by a...
  2. MrsJones05

    Hoop Coop Tractor vs Stationary Coop//Run in Winter

    This may be a dumb question but here goes… I’m trying to decide on what kind of coop to make. If you have a hoop tractor, do you leave it in one place during winter and put some sort of floor layering in it? (e.g., sand, straw, pellets, shavings, etc.)
  3. D

    New Hoop Coop/Run

    Hi all. My wife and I are green to the poultry life, but here's what we've constructed so far. 8'x16' open-air coop and run. We've added a few roosts, but we're looking for suggestions on what's right vs wrong, or any helpful insights. The space will be filled by 9 chicks and 3 geese...
  4. whudson

    Winterizing the hoop coop

    The old barn had to come down, so I built an 8x12 hoop coop for my 17 chickens. The rear is fully enclosed with the top and sides covered with hardware cloth and a tarp. The front is just hardware cloth and the door, with a small solar fan to blow fresh air toward the rear of the coop. With...
  5. CluckinOnTheYakus

    Winter ventilation question in a hoop coop

    This spring we made a hoop coop tractor to raise some meat birds in. After we butchered the meat birds I hatched out some chicks and they are currently in the hoop coop. We had intentions of building an actual coop but we hit a few snags this summer that unfortunately consumed most of our time...
  6. C

    What is best to cover over a quail hoop coop?

    Hello y'all! We're building a hoop coop for our quail. I want to make sure they are protected as possible from the elements. We're in North Texas and in the summer it can get over 100 and in the winter as low as the teens (occasionally single digits). The hot days last way longer than the cold...
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  7. N

    Chicks wanting to be tucked back into brooder each night

    ...day so they can get excercise and get used to their coop and then bringing them in at night until we could finish predator proofing the new hoop coop. I want to leave them in now, but when it starts getting dark they are all gathered at the front of the coop staring at the house peeping...
  8. Browniebird

    Hoop coop tractor? Better ideas?

    I am in a pickle here, we are being forced to move (long story) and I'm losing my chicken coop, but we can't afford to buy a place with prices right now so renting it is. That being said, my MIL can take my birds (which we will be banding to differentiate from her birds) for a temporary stay...
  9. F

    Does my hoop coop need a frame?

    This is sort of a slapdash build using whatever garbage I find on the side of the road. I have pallets held in place using t-posts, and two cattle panels hooped in the middle. I plan to add t-posts + pallets along the back and front, with one front pallet hinged for a door. I will bolt the...
  10. S

    "Docking Station" for Mobile Hoop Coop

    I am new here and to raising poultry (although I have dreamt of it for years!). We built an 8x10' mobile hoop coop for our 6 chicks and 6 guineas (they are 1 week old). During the day, the coop will be out and about on our 15 acre property. At night, I would like to have a "docking station" to...
  11. Sefirothe

    Hoop coop related question

    Not really coop related but I’m sure someone here has dealt with this. For anyone who’s gotten the 16 ft cattle/livestock panels, how do you get them home? I have a truck but it only has a 5’ 8” bed. Can I curl up the panel to fit like an upward facing tube? Are they that flexible with out...
  12. fuzzi

    Broody Set-up in Hoop Coop

    ...and one roo (hatched 2/27/23), and four Dominique pullets (hatched 4/12/23). Two of the Sussex have already gone broody three times. My hoop coop is 16'x8' (128 sq ft.) and my flock stays contained within. The next time one of my hens goes broody I want to allow them to hatch the eggs, and...
  13. EmmaDonovan

    Adding square footage to cattle panel hoop coop

    If you wanted to add more square footage to an existing four panel hoop coop, and you could only add it to the sides and not the ends, how would you do it? This design adds one 4'x8' rectangle to each side, adding a total of 64 sq ft, but it requires cutting 36" holes in the 50" wide cattle...
  14. fuzzi

    Hoop Coop Retrofit

    I live in eastern NC, USDA Zone 8a, aka a hot and humid climate. I built my hoop coop this Spring, and it appears to be holding up pretty well... ...except for the tarp on top, despite the fact that it's supposedly a "heavy duty" tarp. The hem, including the grommets, ripped: Original...
  15. KSOILES

    Modified hoop coop

    ...space to build a chicken run. The run that came with my coop is small and short (not walk-in.) I’m thinking af building a modified hoop coop, with a narrower base like a arched trellis. It would be framed similarly, with cattle panels reinforced with hardware cloth. I’d like to still have a...
  16. Missys Chicken Ranch

    Update to the Texas Hoop Coop

    Hi! I just wanted to post a pic of the final project. We finally had a break in rain long enough to get the sun shade up. Hopefully this will help.
  17. miss heny

    Hoop coop shenanigans

    So originally this was planned to be a father daughter project, but with surprised piglet my dad doing more of the work. This is a prototype for our specific needs, and I do plan to update things as time progress. I have a disability that causing my joints to go arthritic plus some vision...
  18. M

    Basic hoop chicken coop / run Arizona

    This is brief walk around of my recent coop. It started life as a hoop house green house, but I had the hoops on top of two foot tall walls. High winds caused it to fold over. I have an acre, and no affordable way atm to fence in my whole acre, and make it coyote and dog proof, not to mention...
  19. G

    Hoop coop and rain

    Hello- we live in northern Florida and we have been having a lot of rain. We have a hoop coop with three chickens (we recently got them about a week and half ago) but the sides are exposed so some of the bedding is wet. Is this cause for concern? The area with the nesting boxes is dry.
  20. photogal76118

    Hoop coop garden trellis

    ...want to plant a garden and raise some laying hens. I have a small yard so wanted to combine the two. My thought was to build a cattle panel hoop coop for the chicken run and have raised beds along either side of the coop, and use the cattle panels as a trellis for vertical gardening for...
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