![]() I’ll tell you that it went a lot faster and smoother than most projects around here. A little too compact if you ask me because it sat in our garage for weeks!įinally on a Saturday morning, Rob laid it all out and got it put together. We ended up purchasing the Innovation Pet Chicken Homestead Coop from Tractor Supply. I had to agree with him but asked if we couldn’t make a few modifications to make it a longer lasting set-up? Chicken Coop Kit Generally it’s just pine wood and not pressure treated to withstand the weather. He was always reluctant to buy a kit because of the quality of the materials. Then the Tractor Supply sale flyer hit my mailbox. We just have so many projects going on that it wasn’t possible for us to do that. ![]() Be sure to send me a picture of the finished coop too! If you’re motivated in that direction, I say go for it. ![]() We have a friend that built a beautiful coop for next to nothing. There are plenty of blog posts and youtube videos about building a chicken coop out of scrap wood, pallets, or other repurposed materials. But of course we wanted the hens to be comfortable and safe. So I wanted something cutesy and easy for the grandkids to gather eggs. Not in a charming way, like they say it in the UK. It did the job but it wasn’t all that cheap to build and it was kind of, well, homely. When we had our first few chickens years ago, we had built a little A frame coop. Like I said above, we chose a kit to keep things simple and fairly inexpensive. Speaking of tiny homes, if you haven’t checked out my interview with my friend Kris, you have to check it out! She built a tiny home in Alaska and has been loving it ever since. They’re outside free ranging our back yard all day anyway, so it’s basically just sleeping quarters. I figure if people can live happily in a tiny home, then so can chickens. Let’s face it, we”re never NOT in the middle of a project. We don’t have any other buildings on our property, so our garage ends up being a tornado, if we’re in the middle of a project. But an equally important reason is that we desperately need a work space and potting shed. My grandkids love to gather the eggs and it’s honestly just freakin’ me out! If you’ve ever had a pet bird in a cage, multiply that by a zillion and you’ll get the idea.Īlso, you have to walk across the litter to the back wall to gather the eggs. Chickens are very “poopy”, for lack of a better word. It worked out really well when we had fourteen hens! However, it was a lot to keep up with.Īs the hens began to retire and die of old age (we’ve had chickens for ten plus years), the space seemed to be too large and hard to keep clean. ![]() Truth be told, we actually built the shed for the chickens many years ago. Why are the hens getting booted out of the shed? The best budget friendly, and easy solution for us, was to build from a kit. We made the decision to downsize our backyard chickens from the shed to a smaller coop. ![]()
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