I had so much fun last night posting about our Triple Bunk Project, I thought I would post tonight about the last things my awesome friends and I built together…our chicken coop!
Mobile Chicken Coop Plans
We got our plans for this mobile chicken coop from Harvey Ussery’s website The Modern Homestead, and built them pretty much just like he said. The same plan is also available in his book, The Small Scale Poultry Flock rel=”nofollow”, which I recommend to all chicken owners!
“Chicken Perfect!”
3 other families gave up their New Year’s Eve to help us build a coop, but I think they all had a lot of fun in the process. Aside from that, we coined several new terms such as “Chicken Perfect” and “Chickentastic” that we still use whenever we get together.
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| Erica and Savannah help build the coop |
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| I’m just adding this one for my lady friends. Isn’t he hot?!? |
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| Teamwork! Cutting and attaching the roof |
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| The finished product This picture was just too goofy not to share! |
A work in progress!
We have made a few small modifications to the coop over the year. You’ll notice in the picture at the top of the page that there is a smaller door. This is because the goats could get right into this large door to eat the feed. The basic plans, however are very sound and we have been pleased.
This coop is basically where our chickens live in the warm months. They are currently roosting in a barn stall that we modified into a coop, but once it gets warm they will go back to living in here. The chickens mostly free-range during the day, but we move the coop about once a day to “fertilize” a new section every night.
Rolling Broiler Pen
This coop has also been used very effectively as a rolling broiler pen! You can read more about our adventures with raising broiler chickens here! In fact, we are hoping to build a second pen in the next year or so because we like this one so well!
I hope you enjoyed our coop raising pictures. Have a chickentastic day!
All photos are courtesy of the lovely Cristina Flanagan-Saunders!
Summary
Article Name
Coop Raising Day
Description
Inviting friends over (and feeding them!) is an excellent way to get help building chicken coops and other things needed around a homestead.
Author
Heather Jackson
I’ve started following your blog. My husband and I are looking to move to a farm. I love all of your posts!!
The star on the coop is just perfection.
That is such a cute chicken coop! Yep…hot. Love the vicious nails! 🙂
Karen
Awesome! I love how it turned out. Great job!
Thank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop this week; I hope you’ll join us again!
Cheers,
Kathy Shea Mormino
The Chicken Chick
http://www.The-Chicken-Chick.com
Love that coop! You’ve got lucky chickens.
Cool coop! Would love to have you share this on Wildcrafting Wednesday at:
http://www.theselfsufficienthomeacre.com/2013/01/wildcrafting-wednesday-7.html
and The HomeAcre Hop tonight at:
http://www.theselfsufficienthomeacre.com/2013/01/the-homeacre-hop-5.html
Hope to see you there!
Thanks so much for sharing this on The HomeAcre Hop!
Awesome coop – I Love the design.