My Chicken House
Here’s my chicken house. I built this by watching YouTube videos. Here’s a link to a fellow YouTuber that generously offered to give me advice on my steps: h…
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I’m not sure because I was buying the materials a little here and a little there but I think it was about $600. I was recently looking at shed kits at Home Depot and from what I saw, $600 was a bargain.
How much did it cost?
Good job! You could use 2 by material for your steps and not have to have an additional stringer. Like the Plexiglas snake window.
Thank you, that chicken house has worked out nicely. If I had it to do over, I wouldn’t change a thing.
Wow…you did a fantastic job building your chicken house! I would love to have one!
It’s really pretty easy. Just start at the bottom and work your way up.
You are amazing!!! I wouldn’t even know where to begin.
Great Job
I bought the plexiglass and glass from Home Depot. I used plexiglass for the doors because I was afraid the chickens might peck at their reflection and I used glass in the windows because it is cheaper. Lookup armywifeprepper’s channel. She has a chicken house that is somewhat similar but smaller. It is cute as a button!
I am just still so darn impressed – I am still struggling with my design as I don’t have the space you have. Where did you get the plexi glass and did you also use plexi for windows? Thank you so much for sharing !!!!!!!!
Now that is quite an idea! So far I haven’t seen a snake in that house.
my grandparents lived for a long time in papua new guinea and when grandpa noticed there were less eggs each day he would boil two eggs and place one outside the chicken wire and one inside. the snake would come along and eat the outside one then thread itself thru the wire and consume the inside one. boiled eggs would take hours to digest and grandpa would take a shovel a couple of times a day and hopefully catch the no longer hungry culprit, dispatching it as it struggled with the wire.
The size of your coop and run is very close to mine. My run is coming off of the same two corners, and it’s roughly 25 feet square.
I noticed you don’t have a cover over the run, I don’t want to put one on mine because it’s going to be a pain and it might be hard to make draped netting look nice. But I don’t want to wait until a hawk grabs one of my birds and then I’m pissed off scrambling to cover it.
Did you wrestle with covering the run and how’d you decide against it (for now?!)?
this is not a chicken house, its a chicken palace!!!!!!
Wow woman, you are sure somethin’…that’s amazing.
My husband is going to build me a coop this summer. I am going to show your vid to give him an idea. You are my HERO!!
Bev
you did a beautiful job, good on ya girl
They do grow fast!
This is one of the best chicken houses I have seen; Thank you for sharing. I have to get started on my own, they are now four weeks old and growing really fast.
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woman, you are so awesome! We should be friends! You inspire me!
That sounds like a great idea. I did it backwards. I bought chicks thinking I could keep them in a small pen that I built and that I had plenty of time to build the house. In the end I was nervously hammering away watching those chickens get bigger by the day. That little pen sure got crowded fast, LOL.
Before I got my chickens I built my hutch and fenced yard, put up a trail cam inside the hutch and one in the hutch, and borrowed a friend used bedding to see what would actually come hunt them.. then I adjusted the hitch and fencing before I brought babies home.
come build mine!!