Getting your chicken coop ready for your hens is critical! So many people hit this roadblock on the way to getting chickens, and many solve it in wonderfully creative, DIY ways. How did you solve the issue of a chicken coop? Are you happy with your design? Share your story and photo here.
Home-built Chicken Tractor
The plans started with 4"x4"x10' skids then framing the run and the chicken coop with 2x4 studs. Corners were braced with angled scraps. Wherever I could I augmented the new lumber with scavenged lum…
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A DIY Chicken Coop
We built a 4'x6' chicken coop out of rough cut white pine lumber. It has boxes on the sides where we can access the coop without going inside it and disturbing the hens. This works great! We use one …
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My City Girl Farming Chicken Coop
The first thing I did was to buy a used two-story wooden play structure. I (mistakenly) thought this would make things go faster. It didn’t. I ended up only using the ‘floor’ sectio…
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Surprise Chicken Coop
He raised the base on pallets and roamed the neighborhood finding chicken wire, wood, baby gates and other necessary items to put it together. The nesting boxes inside are stero shelves and bookshel…
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