It’s getting so close! The roof is almost done.
The roosts are up. It needs paint and the vinyl coated hardware cloth over the windows and it just might be ready for chickens! This week we might can move the bigger chickens into the coop. Vince still has to build a little run for them and fence off the area where they’re going to semi-free range.
These are the colors it will be painted.
The walls will be the lighter green (Sagey) and the trim will be the darker green (Egyptian Nile).
Looking good, huh?
ga447 says
This is so exciting I love getting info on the chicks and the hen house looks great. You are getting lots of things done. Keep us up to date.
Linda Smith says
Once you get it painted green and green, why not go whimsical and paint it further with flowers and scallopy borders and dots and whatnot in bright colors?
JudyL says
I doubt I’d do that. I’m much too basic and plain but you never know what we might get the urge to do.
Karin says
Oh, I *love* the color choices! Perfect! Can’t wait to see the finished coop and run!
Kathy Alden says
Great color choices. this coop seems to be going together faster than the last!!
Swooze says
Looking good! It will blend nicely into the landscape with those colors.
Linda S says
I love the colors. What a nice home!
Linnie says
Stupid question … but how do you get them inside the house at night so predators don’t get them? Can you guess I’m “new” to the chicken world??
JudyL says
They just know to go in when it gets to be dusk. We’ve never had trouble with them going in. In fact, any time they sense danger, they usually run into the coop. Different varieties have different tendencies so we’ll have to see how this new group does.
Nancy (Life Takes a Turn) says
I like the greens. For someone who doesn’t like greens, that is.
Doe in Mi says
You bet its looking good. And larger than I thought – great. Like your paint colors too. They will blend w/the trees and such so it won’t stand out like a sore thumb in the yard.
Kristy says
Looks great! Makes me want to get my girls back again…where did you find the coop plans? I love it. And we do need a new coop. Ours was a recycled dog box…and not very pretty to look at.
Leslie says
What a pretty coop for all those pretty chickies!
Congratulations, another job off the list! The outside colours will blend in nicely with the landscape!
Take care, Leslie
Deanna says
Maybe I missed this, but are you using a purchased set of plans or your own ideas? We are contemplating chickens and a coop is, of course, one of our first priorities.
Judy Laquidara says
Vince looked online at coops and then came up with his own plans. It’s pretty much the same coop he built in MO but he just made it a foot longer and a foot wider.
Donna Smith says
Your chickens are going to have a very fine coop! I love the colors you’ve chosen.
CindyM says
Such a cute little coop! I love the idea of chickens… heaven knows I love eggs and chicken meat… but chickens (and birds in genera) scare me…. one of thos irrational fears that are just as real as rational fears! I think if they didn’t have beaks, claws and wings, I’d get along with them better.
Mary L. says
How do you get in to collect the eggs? Is that door big enough for you to get through?
Judy Laquidara says
See the hinges right under the windows? That lid lifts up and the egg boxes are right there. We can walk through the door but shouldn’t have to go in.
Debbie W says
What a pretty chicken coop!
Becky G says
Oh my, is that coop cute! I’m not great at husbandry or I’d defintely get some chicks…. Tho even if i were great at constancy, i’d worry @ hawks. So, for now, I’ll just live the experience through yours! Thanks for sharing! B
Judy Laquidara says
Yep, we have hawks too. We’re hoping the tree cover will give our chicks a bit of security but we’ll have to see.
marion usborne says
It’s almost finished and how great it is. Vince and everyone else did a great job; color perfect.
Pat says
Being the Queen of Green, I LOVE the colors you chose!!!
Linda in NE says
Yep, lookin’ good. Your chickens should be very happy living in it.
I was in Bomgaars yesterday and had to spend some time looking at the little chicks. At least they had theirs labeled so I knew what I was looking at. Didn’t bring any home with me.
Judy Laquidara says
Will power! Wish I had some. We were back at Tractor Supply today but thank goodness, they were out of chicks.
carol fun says
It is looking great! I can’t wait to live vicariously through your chickens – darn my homeowner’s association -I’d give them eggs if they let me have chickens of my own – no roosters – that I understand. Take care!
Judy Laquidara says
You know how I feel about “life” in a subdivision with rules and regulations. If I’m paying for it, I want to do what I want to do and not what someone tells me to do. There may come a time when we give it all up and move into a little house on a little lot in town but we’re not there yet.
Lynn says
I have a question for you Judy. This coop like the one you had in Missouri are built high off the ground – why? My mother and every other farm around us had chickens when we were growing up and the chicken coops/houses were built on a foundation on the ground so you could just walk in not climb in. I figured the on in Missouri was that way since it was sort of built to skid to new places but now this one is built high too so am just curious.
Judy Laquidara says
The one in MO couldn’t be moved around. The posts were set in concrete and it was anchored down, just as the one here is. We built them up so that Vince could push the wheel barrow under the door and rake out the straw/shavings and chicken droppings without having to rake it up and then lift it into something.
The chickens have the same little gangplank type thing they’ll walk up and Vince will build a set of steps that we can put in front of the door for us to get up if we need to get up. Mostly we don’t need to step up into that door . . he just rakes the stuff out that door.
Unless you put the coop on a concrete foundation, critters could tunnel under the coop and get the chickens so we felt it was safer to build it up and then when Vince realized how easy it would be to build it high enough that the wheel barrow fit under it . . that’s what he decided to do.
Marie Mann says
That is the ‘White House’ of chicken coops, hope those chicks appreciate it and lay LOTS of yummy eggs.
Think that is the best and easiest to care for chicken coop I have ever seen. Vince should market those plans, they are awesome.
How much easier to clean being that height, my mother would have loved it, and so would her chickens.
How are the silkies going? and is the sick chick on the mend or has it gone the the great coop in the sky?
Cheerio
Marie
Joyce Anderson says
It has been fun to follow the progress on chicken coop. Love the colors.
Alma says
Coop looks great. So if you want to keep it plain, but still put your “signature” on it, why not put a quilt block pattern on the side. Have you seen the pictures of all the barns that have the quilt patterns on the side? You could make it small or BIG. If you haven’t seen them, just Google “quilt barns” to see all the pictures.
Alma says
My son-in-law had a chicken coop on/near the ground and the critters were tunneling into the coop, so he put a layer of chicken wire under the coop to stop any intruders. That worked great.
bec says
I know it’s plenty big for the chickens and it’s just the picture but it just cracks me up because it looks so tiny! It makes me picture the chickens in there sitting in stacks on top of each other. Can’t wait to see pics of them enjoying their new palace!
Linda B in MI says
it is soooo cute! I can feel your excitement. Always great to have a happy Judy.