Backyard Chicken Coop

Step 5 Finishing Touches

Add the roost perch for night-night time.
Make a perch out of a 2x4 with the edges rounded a bit. Under the perch make a place for the poop to gather. This roost area is usually the only place that gets poop inside my coop and makes cleaning easy. (Don't use treated wood!)

When I finished the coop, it ended up being very heavy; so I attached some boards to the bottom and used a hand truck to wheel it (with help) to its home location.

The run/pen can be made easily with 2x2s and 2x4s as seen in the pic below. I enclosed the top of the run to keep the hawks out. I later added a matching run on the opposite side when I added some more hens.

Comments

[OldShotgunYoungShooter]

Big Chickens!!

[ronmaggi]

the 5th pic has some funny looking chickens!!!

[JoeFrank]

Great concept great work! Just 1 thing: can you give us a photo of the inside completed please or a vide on how it works? That's the only thing I think its missing. Thanks a lot

[robbtoberfest]

I'll get it posted soon; thanks.

[bodach]

Very cool; this will help me finish before my chooks arrive.

[737swove]

Thanks! Pretty much exactly what I was looking for. 2 comments in 1 day....you're on a roll!

[hedgenettle]

awesome! thanks so much!