Time to Build a Chicken Coop!

The chickens are growing so fast! We decided this weekend that it was time to start building their run so we can get them outside. They will out grow their box on the table within the next few days! When we originally thought we were going to be able to build an actual coop, we went searching the web and found some really neat sites!

This YouTube video is one of our favorites. And is what we were planning on building, until we found out that we can't build a structure like this in town. But we are able to build a run and so we based our outdoor run off this instructional video.

There are some really cool coops out there. I think this one is pretty neat! It has wheels so you can move them around your yard, which makes clean up nice and easy! It's a bit pricey though...but if you don't want to do the building yourself, totally worth it. I also like the website diychickens. It gives some really neat pictures and gave me some good ideas of what we wanted. They also have plans available for sale for those who feel they need some instruction. And backyard chickens is once again a favorite of mine! It has over 450 designs and pictures on it!

But we went for simple. We took a trip to Home Depot Saturday night and purchased 10 2x4's, chicken wire, a sheet of plywood, and nails. We will be going back to buy some more to put the roost in, in the shed. But these are all the materials we need to start the run. Preston put together part of it that night.

He added 4 legs and put another rectangle on top; so we ended up with a big rectangular box which we will enclose with chicken wire. More to come soon!!!

~Sarah