How can I find a good chicken coop design?
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This is our families chicken coop located in Pennington County, Minnesota. The item in front of the chicken coop is a holder for multiple birdfeeders built by my father-in-law
Question by Ozyo Twofoursix: How can I find a good chicken coop design?
Hi my Im building a chicken coop and im looking for ideas. Im looking for something that you can feed your chickens without going in and being able to get the eggs without going in. Any designs you can help me with that suits my description?
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3 Responses to How can I find a good chicken coop design?
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Build the laying boxes next to an outside wall about waist high. In line with the boxes on the outside wall cut doors. Then all you have to do is walk by, open the door, reach in and remove the eggs. If the door is only, say 3 inches high, the chickens can’t get out but you hand can get in.
Inside install boards leading up to the nest at an angle. Across those angled boards attach 2×2 boards. The chickens can rest on the boards or go into a nesting box at the top. Any droppings will fall down away from the other chickens. If you make the ramps removable it would be easier to scoop up the poop. (hey, that almost rhymes) At the floor level on the opposite wall from the nest boxes build a feeding tray. Make one long door along the wall that you can open from the outside. You can then put the feed into those boxes without going inside. Again make sure it is small enough that they can’t get out. Have fun….
Jrbott
July 3, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Put the nests around the edge of the coop, and make trap doors on the outside walls for collecting the eggs. You can make another door up at waist level with a shoot for the grain to slide down into a trough. They need some kind of window, even plastic will do to get some light in there. Make the roost up near the ceiling, with a couple of jump points they go through to get up that high. Chickens love to be way up high at night.
Jerry
July 3, 2011 at 6:31 pm
I converted half my shed into a coop,
Here are over 600 coop designs
hope it helps
http://www.backyardchickens.com/coopdesigns.html
Tom Jackman
July 3, 2011 at 7:12 pm