nikkik0720
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- May 7, 2024
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My fiance and I are buying a house and it's in an area that we can have chickens. I had 3 chickens years ago, and my dad and I built a coop out of free wood pallets, scrap plastic siding, and an old window. It worked well (it was super heavy, despite not being huge) but it was never properly 'winterized' so the years of PA winters took it toll on it.
My fiance and I want to get 5-8 chickens, and to buy a pre-fab coop that will actually be big enough just isn't feasible for our budget. He did read somewhere that a metal shed can be made into a chicken coop, and we can get a big 10 x 10 metal shed for less than half the cost of a pre-fab coop. I was wondering if anyone's done this and how it worked/how you did it. I know we'll have to add some sort of insulation to the roof/sides, and add in a window or two. We would also add a little door for them that would lead right into a 6 x 10 fenced area (and then they'd also be allowed out in our fenced backyard when we would be outside (there's a lot of hawks in the area, so they wouldn't be allowed out of their specific fenced area without us. Their run would be covered).
I guess long story short, I was just wondering if anyone's made a metal shed into a coop/how it was done/if you recommend it.
My fiance and I want to get 5-8 chickens, and to buy a pre-fab coop that will actually be big enough just isn't feasible for our budget. He did read somewhere that a metal shed can be made into a chicken coop, and we can get a big 10 x 10 metal shed for less than half the cost of a pre-fab coop. I was wondering if anyone's done this and how it worked/how you did it. I know we'll have to add some sort of insulation to the roof/sides, and add in a window or two. We would also add a little door for them that would lead right into a 6 x 10 fenced area (and then they'd also be allowed out in our fenced backyard when we would be outside (there's a lot of hawks in the area, so they wouldn't be allowed out of their specific fenced area without us. Their run would be covered).
I guess long story short, I was just wondering if anyone's made a metal shed into a coop/how it was done/if you recommend it.