10-15-2007, 03:44 PM
There are many ways to build a chicken coop since we don't have to keep them warm in the snow or keep opossums, foxes and coyotes out. Ignore all the mainland articles on how to build a chicken house. Chickens aren't fussy about a coop. Stack up a few bricks, plastic milk cartons or whatever you've got around the place, put a couple branches across it for roosts and then some more bricks and a bit of old tin roof on top to keep off the rain and the chickens will be happy.
Two wooden pallets on edge, some two by two boards between them, some two by two or two by four legs, a bit of tin roof at the back and a bit of tin roof on top and the chickens will be happy. Even a bit of tin roof in a tree above a handy branch would work, wouldn't it? Especially if there was a milk crate nearby filled with dried grasses for them to put their eggs in. Maybe a bit of tin roof over that, too. Tree houses for chickens, that could be fun.
Two wooden pallets on edge, some two by two boards between them, some two by two or two by four legs, a bit of tin roof at the back and a bit of tin roof on top and the chickens will be happy. Even a bit of tin roof in a tree above a handy branch would work, wouldn't it? Especially if there was a milk crate nearby filled with dried grasses for them to put their eggs in. Maybe a bit of tin roof over that, too. Tree houses for chickens, that could be fun.
Kurt Wilson