25 thoughts on “Backyard chickens – Chicken coop tour- Easy to clean”

  1. 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!

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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!!!

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  4. 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!

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  5. 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)

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  7. 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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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  8. 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 !

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  9. 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!

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  10. Very nice!! Would it be possible to make the nesting box floor hinged to
    allow for cleaning? Thanks for all the great ideas ๐Ÿ™‚ I’m hoping to get
    mine built this winter and ready for its residents next spring

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  11. 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

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  12. 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

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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.

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  15. 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.

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  16. 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.

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