Written by After much looking around and some research on ideas, I didn’t really decide on anything I liked. So I just decided to make my own chicken coop with some ideas in my head and some notes scratched on a notepad and some scrap wood in my garage. Between knee replacement surgeries I started to build, and ultimately I finished the coop a few months after the second knee was done. I still don’t think I really like the finished product but the chickens seem to be fine with it. Here a few pictures. (Click on the pictures to enlarge them)
Inside. Nesting boxes made from an old baby’s crib boards.
Inside. Roosting bars from scrap wood on an old playset and branches I took down from backyard oaks.
For the human entrance to the coop, I used a small indoors door that my son had picked up alongside the road nearly two years ago.
Looking at the coop from our driveway.
From inside our chicken pen, the chicken door and open and close without having to move the chicken ladder.