Most other coop plans you’ll see require the use of an electric net surrounding the coop for safety OR free ranging your birds. We designed this so it has a fully enclosed run without needing an electric net, but we have the ability to use a net with it in the future if we wanted to do so.
Your roosters are living in high style! I so admire your determination to build function, safety and durability into everything you build. Taylor’s attention to detail adds an esthetic that makes it an attractive part of your landscape, too. Nicely done, you two. What’s next?
This is so nice! Yes, we really love to think through everything as much as we possibly can to accommodate ourselves and the function. Plus, architect-mickayla likes things to look pretty haha what's next? raised beds!
That is a great small coop. It looks so much better than the ones I see at the farm stores. The door to just put feed in without having to go into the coop. Plus the one where they roost. Great job!+
Kitty inspected and approved! Great job! You obviously put a lot of forethought into the design! If I tried to figure out all of those angles, the only result would be a headache! I can see something similar working for baby chicks between leaving the brooder, and joining the adult chickens.
Haha ricky wishes it was for him! We drew it out in a sort of CAD program before we started so that we could measure the angles correctly. Doing that math manually gives me a headache too lol I think the design could be adapted to a few variations like chicks for sure!
Love it! We also have a bachelor flock (our game hens hatched out 3 chicks and they were ALL roosters). They free range and our other birds are in runs (so many hawks here). This is a great idea and I'd love to see the plans (ya know, in case the neighbors have finally had it with the boys roaming free, lol). Came out great!
Yall did awesome. Don't sell yourself short a couple wrong cuts happen to everyone atleast you can still use them for shorter boards or scrap pieces. If it's what yall want then it's perfect but I'll bet your next one will be even better watch. I give it an A+
What a cute lil coop! Love your idea of keeping the old hens to work on the land. I always wanted to let ours die of old age and happy, unfortunately we had to move. But in the future we will do this as well. Great informative video, thanks you guys👏
Thank you! Yes, we want to honor their contributions to us in a way that they're happy but still useful & we think this will be a great plan for that. :)
i think the coop is a brilliant idea, over winter it would be great for the chickens to prep your vege garden for the new season, you guys are doing an awesome job, im hopping in the nex two years to begin my homesteading journey here in australia, im learning to grow and preserve on a small scale so i have some necessary skills for when i do get a larger property.
This coop looks amazing and love how it can me rolled around. Had one idea I wanted to send your way that might be helpful. Could you put the chicken feed bin on a small tilt device? What I mean is if it could tilt out you could then fill the feed trough and then tilt it back in and possibly lock it in place. Watching the video it looked a bit awkward to fill it with the angle its at and this idea jumped into my head to possibly help you both out. If you are interested I could so draw up a makeshift blueprint to describe it better.
This is a neat idea! Honestly, it may just be the angle that the camera was at because it is easy peasy in real life haha, but I like the brainstorming! I'd love to see if you made one of these yourself how it works out!
My mobile coop consists of a van that the engine blew out of it. We drag it to its next destination and easy to clean out and wash out when necessary. Everything drains down hill towards my future garden enhancing the soil. Win!!! Win!!! Great job kids 😉
Jason from Sow The Land has lots of coop designs and plans to make them. Check them out. You can make a ferternity boys coop roosters only Bobblehead Homestead has one and sometimes people are looking just for Roosters theirs have died.
He does, we’ve checked them out. We’re weirdos that like to design our own stuff haha 😉 we just prefer to tailor things exactly to our own needs, but that’s probably just the architect in me
I can see the broom straw growing all around your land ,,that means that your soil is lime deficient,,,save yourself a lot of time with garden ,,go buy a lot of lime like 800 pounds and just put way more than you think you need on areas you want to garden in ,,,now is the time that this works.
@@calicocowacres here where I live in Alexander county we have to do that ,,if we don’t our garden plants especially tomatoes get disease in the second week of June ,,early blight ,,with a heavy dose of lime in January we don’t get disease,,,yep just dump a whole forty pound bag in to one raised bed and you will be loving me.
@@bobbygreen2291 we definitely got blight last year but it was late blight. I was pretty careful with making sure to fertilize with cal-mag, but you’re so right about the lime. We wanted to try and fix the issues ahead of growing season as much as possible this year.
We wanted to be able to set the bucket on the ground, so out the side made more sense for us. Bulkhead fitting was more expensive but would work just fine👍🏼
I’ve never had two roosters together without some major fighting.😢. One always becomes dominant and aggressive, even with me. Hope your ‘guys’ are docile.
We let them free range when we’re outside to keep them safe, but the amount of space that this has is technically enough for 6 chickens (I personally think it’s too small for that many). Like we said in the video, we’ll be getting a mobile net for them to be able to forage a much larger area once we can afford it. For now, we move it to fresh grass daily so they can snack on all the bugs & plants😌
We feed ours a specific amount of soaked fermented feed daily, so this isn’t an issue for us. But you could easily mount an upside down piece of gutter to act as a rain guard or locate the feed trough under the coop section, but then you run the risk of poop constantly getting dropped in it. Do what works best for you! As we said in the video, this coop is tailored to our specific needs.
