Chicken Coop

We have chickens!! The coop turned out beautifully and the chickens are very happy. They are now even laying eggs. We are getting 6-8 eggs a day. We are getting ready to head to Fair for 4H and we are taking 9 chickens. It will be fun!

We made our chicken coop by adding a "porch" onto a shed. We put in a concrete stem wall so we could secure the hardware wire and keep critters and predators out.

The coop has hardware wire on three sides. We also used an old rod iron door that we spray painted black. The door seems a bit fancy for a chicken coop, but it was free. 

We put roosting cabinets and nesting boxes inside the coop. 

This roosting cabinet was made from an old outdoor kitchen cabinet. Behind the door is a nesting box. Right now about 5 chickens share that one nesting box.

This roosting cabinet and nesting box was made from an old armoire.