How to use blocks, bricks, and pavers in your chicken coop and run.
I am sharing how to build a Fabulous & Cheap DIY Chicken Coop & Run that your chickens & husband will LOVE. It looks super cute in the yard too :)
Brooke and Steve Giannetti built the backyard chicken coop of their dreams, and now they're sharing their tips on how to build a chicken coop in your own backyard.
April 29, 2018: Construction of my very first coop is underway! I'm about 3 weeks into the project now. A combination of weather (it's been VERY rainy), faulty equipment (our backhoe needed a replacement part and that delayed progress on our...
Has your chicken math exceeded your run space? Have you decided to add a run to an existing coop for added predator protection? Whatever point you are at in your flock care you will eventually hit the point where you need to add some protected space for your birds. To inspire some ideas about designing your own custom
While it's not exactly in the same vein as other projects around here, like restoring vintage video game systems or tricking an ESP32 to output VGA, keeping chickens can also be a rewarding hobby. The...
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As you know from reading this blog, there are many, many trees that fell at my farm in Bedford when a twister came through and the cleanup has been extensive. Alfredo, one of the workers at the farm, designed some really great roosts for the chicken coop last year from another fallen tree. We thought
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Brooke and Steve Giannetti built the backyard chicken coop of their dreams, and now they're sharing their tips on how to build a chicken coop in your own backyard.
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Have to share my husband's coop design: Pallets, cattle and horse panels, plywood, old pool cover tarp, and compost . . . Setting the posts and pallets. The entire structure is 40 feet long x 8 feet wide. 20 x 8 is the enclosed coop...
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This is truly a from trash to treasure story. From a used and discarded pile of pallets to an adorable chica coop. I will show you how me and my Mr. threw together our chicken coop (built for half a dozen chicks) with just scrapes and salvaged pallets. We started with a mountain of pallets (or more accurately two extra large truck loads). Separating all the pallet boards can be a little tricky. You need an assistant. This is absolutly a two person job...thankfully I had my Mr. but for all photo purposes Bella will be my assistant today... It doesn't hurt that she is just the cutest thing ever. If you have ever heard the saying "you're only as good as your tools" this would be 100% true for this project. You absolutely have to have a saw with a good blade on it for cutting metal. Your only real option is to cut through the nails. You will never get the nails out, it's like the pallet builders have a contest to see who can build them the fastest and at the same time trying to boost the economy with their nail usage. Another tid bit of advice is to pre-drill. The boards from the pallets are nearly rock hard, I'm not joking either they are seriously like half petrified or something. This is Red, she isn't shy when it comes time to lay her egg. We live in the south with crazy hot days and flares of humidity. To help our chicas we left two slots open for a breeze way. Every opening, including these "windows", got a covering of raccoon/predator proof screening. Ours was scrape from previous predator proofing project, whoa that's kind of a mouthful. This is the back. The chica coop banner is a previous DIY post. Behind the banner are the hatch doors. Using some scrape hinges and a spare pallet piece as a "latch" of sorts. I'm not trying to keep humans out just those strong little raccoon hands. They may have strength but they don't have intelligence. This is the closed/locked position. A slight turn to the side and it's "unlocked". I prop it open with a piece of tent pole we had laying around. There you have it, there it is. Here's Red again...that must mean she's done doing her job. She lays greenish blu eggs. The warmer the weather the bluer the egg and the cooler winter season brings more of a Greenish hue to the egg. This is the same latch concept as the backdoors. We built the door all the way to the top of the coop so when it is open, all day long, the door becomes a ramp that the chickens can walk up. This is closed. Turn to open. Here's our newest members of the flock. They were hatched May 27th and look at the feathers they have already grown. They really do grow up to fast :) Hope you enjoyed. As always, sharing is caring and stay classy.
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For the first two years of my chickening adventures, I used pine shavings as litter inside the coop primarily because they were a common recommendation that ...
Our customers love this new coop plan! It is extra-roomy, with 32 square feet of floor space, and can accommodate up to 12 hens! A removable roosting box -- yes, removable -- catches chicken poop and makes clean-up super easy! Of all the chicken coop building plans we carry, only the "Daisy" and its sister coop, the "B
Last year I shared with you how we built our chicken coop. We couldn’t find anything affordable enough to purchase that would house our chickens. We currently have 7 chickens, but our coop easily accommodated the extra 6 we had last year that we raised for meat. In the previous post, I talked about how ... Read More about How to Build a Chicken Coop: Part 2
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You Nice. The one I just built is almost like yours. I put pallets on edge, used 1/2" pvc pipe with connectors to make each one 14'. I screwed each end...
I spent about a year reading about coop designs and ventilation and feeders and waterers and pr editors before I approached my husband about building this chicken tractor. We used his carpentry skills and except for the hardware cloth that we...
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Chicken Tractor I built a chicken tractor and I thought that other readers might gain some ideas and motivation to build their own if they could see mine. Dean
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