In this video I will take you on a tour of my easy maintenance chicken coop. Please give it a thumbs up if it was helpful! I will try to answer any questions…
How To Build A Chicken Coop, DIY-Guides
In this video I will take you on a tour of my easy maintenance chicken coop. Please give it a thumbs up if it was helpful! I will try to answer any questions…
I absolutely love the nesting area! Our coop at the moment is a horror to
clean, and involves a lot of back pain, so yours looks like a dream come
true! What are the dimensions of the nesting area? Looking forward to new
videos!
Hear the Cardinal at 1:53
Thanks! The run is 12’6″ by 6’3″. Its about 5’6″ tall; I regret that
because I am 6’5″ I didn’t really bury the wire, per se, but the wire is
attached to a piece of wood which is probably 6 or 7 inches in the ground.
I worried that over time the wire would rot. Pressure treated wood should
do okay underground for a long time. I just try to check every for holes
once when I am out there.
why does it not surprise me that you’ve covered that off ๐
That’s a very nice chicken coop!! You did a great job. What are the
dimensions of the run? Did you bury your wire on bottom, in addition to
rocks, to keep predators from digging in? Hope you do a video on the
construction of the entire coop and run!!!
I am thinking about building another one in the spring to sell. If I do
that, I will probably make a video of construction steps and wood
dimensions etc. Thanks!
There is another video of just that ๐
holy ‘crap’ that’s a nice coop those chickens have it all! but you didn’t
actually show the cleaning procedure..
or just hinge the whole back of the nesting area like you did the back of
the roosting area. Mount the hooks at the rear inside of the nesting area,
so when you drop the back down they are available to hand the bucket on.
(mount a small latch and hook on the frame and the new lid so that the back
swings 270 degrees so it’s out of the way of the bucket)
sorry its actually called scasandaws
if you want to wacth a video about smallholders go to the channal called
the smallholder channel theres only one video but it gives alot of
imformation and he will make alot of videos if you support him
Hey, nice work there. Mate I would add a solar panel to that coop. That
will keep the battery nicely charged. You could even hook up an automatic
water pump and a food auger ๐
I love this chicken coop it’s a great model I would like to build. Is it
possible for you to post, email, or whatever you like to show instructions
or the process you went about making this coop. Great Job again !
Know if the lights would last all night on a single charge?
Most definitely. I regret not doing it. You might also be able to cut out a
small 6 X 6 inch hole, keep that piece of wood, and put a little mini door
in the bottom of each nesting box. Scraping the bedding through that would
be be pretty easy and you could put permanent hooks at the bottom of๏ปฟ each
nesting box to hang a bucket on while cleaning them out. I guess what i am
saying is, it may not be necessary to hinge the entire floor, but an
opening would be super convenient!! Good idea!
Very nice!! Would it be possible to make the nesting box floor hinged to
allow for cleaning? Thanks for all the great ideas ๐ I’m hoping to get
mine built this winter and ready for its residents next spring
Very nice coop. You might try landscape garden lights. If you remove the
stick and globe they come with, you can cut round holes in the roof,
silicone them on around the edge of the lights. No deep cycle battery or
recharging needed. The lights go on at dark each night. Can buy a pack of
them for under $10
Yeah, they probably love some straw, grass and grit.
never use cedar in chicken coops. it will make them sick. always use pine.
or straw. we even use grass clippings as long as u dont spray ur yard with
chemicals. they also make a corn bedding to use in coops and its even
edible for the chickens.. god bless–mrs.cntrshot
Very nice build. Why sand and not cedar shavings?
i shoveled out the sand and added it to my garden, then added new sand to
the run….took about an hour but I will only have to do that 3 times a
year. Because the sand was deep enough, it really didn’t smell that bad;
the fresh poop gets buried until it decomposes a bit. Without sand, it
would have been muddy in the run and chicken don’t do well with wet feet
all the time. Also, I beg to differ about the roosting areas…if they poop
in the coop 99.9 percent of the time from on the roost.
The ground looks diabolical to clean. How do you clean that? That’s where
they crap the most. Everything else looks good… but chickens will crap on
the ground, kick stuff everywhere, and you’ll have to clean it. That’s the
difficult bit… their roosting areas only get a little bit of crap.
I did recently shovel out all the sand and replace it. Generally, it seems
that the sand helps the smell because they scratch around and bury the
fresh poop. On hot days the smell is the worst, but on normal days I barely
smell it… My wife and I have our fire pit within about 15 feet of the
coop and had initially planned on moving it farther away anticipating a bad
odor. We haven’t bothered moving it. But i do keep the inside pretty clean
too… hope that helps.
I really wish I could have made this one portable; you are definitely right
about the grass. Good luck!
I like what you have done. I am considering a Tractor Coop that can be
moved around our acreage. That gives them grass to eat and after the ground
is bare it is ready to be moved and grass put down (seeds). Just worried
about critters.