Chicken run build 

Such a gorgeous book - each shed is unique and inspiring, and I love all the tiny details Kotite features to help readers imagine how to create their own She Sheds ru-vid.comUgkxe9yi0sulKgsp0VJJCIrLWWkvVqcU7LFR . The feature on Dinah's Rustic Retreat is like something from a fairy tale. It's really inspiring to see how creative all these ordinary people are in making beautiful and useful spaces on a modest scale.

for people who have chickens as a hobby and homestead purpose, this is beautiful. Who cares if its overkill? this man put a lot of effort into creating a beautiful chicken run. And on top of that, it is going to last years! Great video!

When I was 12 a friend built a barn and he said my job was goffor, go for this go for that. Mainly it was just packing beer to him and his brothers. Made $20 a week, thought I was rich. He had me paint the entire barn with used motor oil because they had banned krisole. I’m 52 now and that barn is as good as the day the last nail was drove in it.

You did a fantastic job. Thank you for the video. I would suggest something: if you put cinderblocks all around the run and fill the holes with soil to plant flowers & vegetables for the chickens they will LOOOVEEE it. Plus the cinder blocks will prevent animals to try to dig under as well.

Pete B, Nice job... and I can see that those chickens are not just "chickens " You have valued them as living being, and you have earned my respect. To see someone with " heart", ....my hat off to you sir !!!!!!!!

My coop is raised like yours. We added wire around the base of the coop so the hens can enjoy the shade and shelter the building provides. You have a wonderful setup!

I can see using the leaves in the chicken run. Keep the girls comfortable. I would have put the wire on the run before dumping the leaves, but to each his own. The run looks great. I can see using the manure on the garden. You may even want to let the chickens spread the leaves. Great video. Thank you for sharing. I think you really thought this project out. God bless America.

This is the best chicken coop/run I ever saw! Genius!

This helped me start the process. Thank you so much for sharing!

I love this so much! I am a college student at WPI and we are completing our Interactive Qualifying Project and we are building a predator proof chicken structure for Turn Back Time Farm. This video has been amazing for us and our project! The chickens at the farm will be so happy with a new safe home

Excellent quality build! You treat your chickens with such care and kindness they are in very good hands!

the best video to watch is when you see how well brought man makes his place livable for those he invites to share it with.

I built a coop and was looking for ideas for my run. Thanks! You gave me everything I need. Excellent 👌

My Dad had me to watch your video several times. He likes the chicken wire that you added to the ground for extra protection from predators. Thanks for sharing this video ❤

You have a lot of great ideas with your construction. Thanks for posting for us to view.

Whomever invented the post levellers should be rewarded with many loads of chicken manure, ode to the inventors, you really helping this guy out

Learned two new things...that those are tampering tools the previous owners left us in the barn and I am not crazy that there really are levels that "go around" posts like that :) Thanks much!

Awesome build. I would say keep an eye on the gate for sagging as the diagonal support is in the opposite direction. I’ll definitely be using this as a reference for ours this spring. Thanks!

I love this project. You did an awesome job. Thank you for posting it.

You done a real good job. We had trouble with the cloth wire. Decided to do smaller sections.

That’s the Ritz Carlton of chicken coops. Sweet. Nice job.

You can also tarp the roof when required. Perfect job!

This is beautiful! We are redoing ours to make it nicer, and this is great inspiration. We will have it taller, like yours, and are making it out of chain link fencing we were given. We have bears here, so it has to be sturdy. Thanks for putting this out!

Thank you! I always begged for chickens as a girl but my parents didn't let me have any. My dad never taught me this type of stuff. Just yelled when I didn't hold the flash light angled correctly as he reached for his beer. I am almost thirty now and finally have my own chickens! I have the cash for a shed and run build and my partner says that he will be the do-er if I am the thinker but I've been on home depot and lots of websites feeling like I still don't know what I'm doing 😖 thanks for this gift of being... Dad ☺️

Thank you Sir for your caring attitude your sharing and your expertise. It is so very much appreciated! I love your work. Thank you.

Yay WHAT A GREAT JOB!!! SO BEAUTIFUL!!

This is EXACTLY the type of chicken run I've been wanting to design and this video helps tremendously. Thanks!

Learned so many things. My husband and I will be building a chicken run in the next few days, I am glad that I found your video, loved it.

Great chicken run! I'm just finished my coop and put my chickens in it after 4 weeks as well. I'm gonna build my run as close to yours!

Reminds me of the run at my old house. About the only difference is that I installed double doors on the end, with a removable foot board, to clean the run. Looks real nice!

Great video series, thank you for your help, job well done, God Bless!.

Thank you 🙏 for this video Building the same design now

I like it! You had some really great ideas! Chicken swings- too cute! Love the design! Brilliant bedding! Can't wait to watch their first day out, I see it in my recommended side list! Wish you the best! And Thank You!

Thanks again..we did a similar build with 95%of the materials left by previous owners...thanks again Pete

coopodoit offers great manuals for building a chicken cop. I build my coop with them. Leave a like if helped you :)

omg you have a couple Doberdorks! We do too! great video thank you!

Beautiful run and coop. Hope I can pull off something as fine here for my girls when I get them!

Looks great. We have about the same thing. We adding grass clipping and garden scraps all summer too. This year and 15 hens later we sifted with 1/4” hardware mesh and topped the Back To Eden garden. Asparagus looks lovely. So your design is a soil manufacturing plant. Feed them and they feed you. Nice.

Pete, awesome job, man you do not do anything half essed. You are awesome, thanks for the videlo.

That PTO post hole digger makes it possible! Trying to dig those post holes the old way would suck so bad!!!!!

very nice video.. great chicken coop and run

Really nice! Some thing that really stood out to me, and I think is a great idea, is having the latches towards the top and bottom of gates/doors!

Probably way too late to mention this since it was posted almost 4 years ago, but the chicken wire that you left loose so you could get to the latch on the chicken coup worries me. Raccoons would see that as an easy in and have their predatory way with your chickens some night. I love the design otherwise and really enjoyed watching you build it. Thank you.

Really like it...Great Job Love the swings ..So cute fabulous Idea.

Hey what's up Pete I got to tell you excellent job the chickens are going to love it

I really hope this guy's brood multiplies thousand fold

Very nice, awesome build!!! Thank you for sharing.

Awesome job on your chicken run! Those hens will be happy and safe. We are finishing ours will the base the same as yours. We live where we get lots of snow so we modified ours to have a sloped metal roof. We also enclosed the 2 sides where most of the rain and snow will blow in to keep the hens dry. No more shoveling snow inside the run this Winter.

You did a great job. I love you said that "IT TOOK FOREVER!" lol... those are wise words for a Backyard Chicken person lol if it doesn't take time then it is not built correctly, if it's not built correctly then predators will penetrate the run or worse, the Coop. So use this video as a bible if you are watching. This man knows his stuff. Thanks for the video!

This is so far the best chicken coop i have see

Excellent run! I like the idea that you used the Simpson brackets verses just screwing or nailing the boards together

4 yrs later this popped up but perfect for me cause I need chick run build and I like what you did I am also in east Texas thank you for this video👍👍😁

It looks amazing but you just need some environment in your run. Like small plants, some stone, a sandbox, a little hill, branches ect. Nice you have heating lamp for them😊 Thanks for sharing.

I would have put two OPPOSING DOORS enabling you to easily drive right through your pen enclosure, instead of having to back in. My pen was similar, but with a covered HEAVY plastic roof giving rain/mud/sun protection. You did great, including the outer ground wire. Nice job !!!!

Beautiful i like that kind of man can make anything like my husband❤️

On my wat to lowes to get materials for this build. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.

Looks like a Taj Mahal for chickens. Complete with spa.

My hat's off to you Pete! That is a heck of a lot of work. We had strong winds up here in Oregon last week and part of our fence blew over. My wife and I put up an 8 foot section and are looking toward fixing the rest of it in the Summer. We did an entire fence on our last house so we know what we are facing. Totally wore me out, but nothing compared to digging those post holes, etc. I thought you might use corrugated material for the roof, but it looks like they will be able to seek shelter under the coop. Nice job!

This is excellent!! The girls are gonna LOVE it!! Are you going to put any hardware cloth around the corners..could be a weak spot. Can't wait to see them swing!!

Awesome video. We are starting our coop / build today and I was thinking we needed to remove the grass area in order to lay down the wire mesh. So glad I watched your video. It has saved me time!

Are you in an area that gets very much snow? I am in an area that gets snow and the Avery netting would get too heavy with snow and break/bend. My brother built a pen using chain link fencing with supports. Poultry netting on the ground rusts and deteriorates here. I used the same hardware cloth for my walls of my pen enclosure. I am not sure how strong poultry netting will work for the roof. I like your structure u built with the strong gate. Good job! I am thinking of rebuilding my pen structure similar to how you did yours, but It is twice the size. Will probably use chain link fencing for the roof to keep out predators from the sky....

Good morning great job,even four years later,pretty Dobbies

+ Excellent run you built there, I did the same. I even left the spot not fastened down under the window in the roof of the run. It only took the racoon 2 weeks to find the weakness and go in and kill every chicken I had. Just saying, you might want to rethink that.

Thank you! I've been looking for something like this step by step instructions was nice.

Very well done, I loved it! Good dogs. Greetings from southern Brazil. Ricardo Kliwood Climaco.

With 3 ft deep posts, you can keep ostriches in there 😂

REALLY NICE! However, you should have laid down galvanized and coated deer-fencing down on the ground to at least 2 feet outside the fence. That way predators wouldn’t be able to dig under the fence..... I see what you did with the hardware cloth. I supposed that would work, I would just feel more comfortable if it extended all the way across the interior under the run.... Regardless, Very Nice!

I used the same design for my run. Thanks Pete.

this is the best chiken coop! run!!

This guy progressing so nicely first class cluck coop

Man I got to get me a grass catcher for my lawnmower

That's a descent one, when I was raising chickens before I moved I would let them out of the run and leave the door open. Then at dusk they would go back in and I would shut the door. Someday I will start chicken farming again. Nice job.

Great series really enjoyed this one best wishes to you and your family.

Love the hardware attachments to make this cluck coop so square so there mayt be no adjustment to the cluck wire, listen i ben dar don dat folks

excellent build and thank you for taking us along and explaining everything, I enjoyed it tremendously! I'm now following you :)

beautiful chicken coop, wish I had one. That window at the front, wont raccoons figure that one latch out though? Great video, thanks

AWESOME!!!!! Perfect ideas for building a run!!

Do they use the swings? Update video?

A work of art and so much love went into this build as well. Thank you!

Love the design. If it were me, no offense, I might would add hardware cloth on top just because I've heard of several stories of raccoons ripping through chicken wire. Have a blessed day. JESUS CHRIST loves you. 🙏❤

looks great man, chicken coop looks really well made as well

Just found your channel, one question: where you left that loose chicken wire on top to unlatch the window aren't you afraid of raccoons getting under it and eating your chickens. Larry

Man u r serious, I like your workmanship...excellent job!!

Damn this is great!!! I have really got inspiration. 5 star run for sure Have you got a video where you released the chickens? Any predator visits yet?

Congratulations, wow, awesome project! Very attractive finished job.

Do you get snow? If so how to keep falling snow from building up on ceiling and thus pushing the screening down. Do you have a plan for that?

Wow nice scenery ....i wish i was living there..

Why so deep? Seems 2' would be good.

Nice job, thanks for the video

That's Great! You are Just a Wonderful Genius! Thanks for the video.

I have found hardware cloth ALL THE WAY AROUND TOP AND BOTTOM. Possums can crawl up the hardware cloth. If possums can so can mink, weasles etc. I started with hardware cloth on the bottom only and later enclosed the whole thing after watching the critters crawl right up it and into the coop through the other fencing. Chicken wire...they can chew right through.

It looks more like a Hilton Hotel for Chickens. Nice job.

Great video, I built 2 chicken house / runs and wanted to refresh my memory. Pete I`m sure you helped a lot of people.

Good job I like how your children coop is coming out ..

Nice coop and run Pete. Enjoyed seeing the build!

Those are the happiest chicks! and thats an amazing run. Please watch up top where its not secure. Raccoons are terrible at ripping thru things to get the chickens.

Here in south Louisiana, it gets so hot in the sun that I put some tin on the top of half of the run. I would had used that fiber glass sheets but had the tin on hand. I like your run but I will be replacing mine because we discovered termites. The.swings were a great idea but I might have trouble keeping the Grand Darlins off them. All in all, the run looks great and first class.

Excellent Job. Your building and imagination skills are amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice. I will use some ideas that you did. Thank you!

You do everything first class!