"The Coop de Hilton"

Wow you should only allow prize winning chickens in there.This is the fanciest chicken coop I’ve ever seen.

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That is a great looking coop
You can expect some happy hens

jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bub…Love the whole concept and it’s a great-looking build. Couple of questions to satisfy my curiosity: (1) How is the coup orientated with regards to the sun? Are the windows east-west or the other way around? (2) Are the doors on the one side for cleaning, or some other function? Having never raised chickens, I’m just curious. Who knows, might happen someday…

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Those chickens are going to be living “high on the hog”.

-- Julian

Bubbs – Thank you for viewing and your comments. To answer your questions: (1) I designed the coop to catch the rising sun in the morning and setting sun in the afternoon. I almost went with a more “greenhouse” design to ensure that I utilized the most sun as possible to heat the coop, but I was over-ruled by the building committee (my wife). Hahaha! (2) The three doors on the right of the coop (if facing the front door) are for storage. They will hold straw, pine shavings, feed, etc. The two doors on the left are the nesting box doors. This eliminates the need to enter the coop each day and battle chickens just to pick eggs. Each morning my wife will be able to just drop each door and access the nests, which hold 3 nests per door – 6 total nests. Also, the door that will lead to the outdoor run, this will be operational from the outside as well. It will basically be similiar to a guillotine, but when outside of the coop (probably near the nesting box doors) you will be able to pull the rope and the door will raise open allowing the chickens access to the fenced in run. The run is going to be as wide as the coop (10ft.) and about 30 ft. long. On occassion we will allow them to roam the yard with the gate open and in the fall I will unleash them into the garden. Hope I answered your questions. Again, thanks for looking and commenting. It was a fun project.

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I am very impressed with your work! Wonderful!

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Nice job on the coop. Chickens are fun to have around.

-- Doug

Do NOT let J. Michael FOX have a key… right?

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

I’ve gotta agree with Jim: That’s the fanciest chicken house I’ve ever seen! And the fact you did it with recycled materials makes it even sweeter! Snakes are our biggest problem here as they really seem to go for the eggs. If your wife ever reaches under a hen and finds a big snake, you will probably get to take over the egg gathering duty.

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there is no such thing as getting the woodworking fever…ya just have it!

nice coop

-- It's made of wood. Real sturdy.--Chubbs Peterson

That is a great looking coop. That should last.
I have chickens also. 30-40 chickens with only six nest boxes?? You may want to do some more internet research…..........................

-- mike...............

Great job – you’ve got that eggsactly right.

Fantastic achievement considering it’s built out of recycled materials.

Fascinating insight into the snakes – in the UK it’s only foxes we have to worry about!

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Nice job, good luck with the yard fowl.

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Yeah i like it too…don,t forget the weather vain on top of the cupola..

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@Redryder…we are only starting with 13 chickens. I think by next year we will double that number or make it an even 30. When that happens, I can open the lower level of the nesting boxes to make 6 more nests. That will give me 12 total nests then. Only trouble will be constructing two new nesting box doors. My wife has all this researched, I’m just her contractor…haha! Thanks for commenting everyone, I am glad y’all like The Coop. :)

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