DIY Chicken Run 

I'm binge watching this chicken coop build and extension. I think your family is precious. Your little daughter is helping and your wife is so loving with your children. I used to stand and sway rock side to side when I stood with my little ones. Must be a mom thing. Thanks for the video and for taking care of your fam and chickens. Dad is No. 1.

Just a suggestion... you could have used the full height of the lumber to create a walk-in chicken coop AND grown some perennial plants like grapes all around to provide food for the family and shade for your feathered friends! 😄 Of course, it would have required a bit more cross bars for support.

Why am I watching this? I don’t even own a house

This is perfect for what my wife and I want to do! We're looking to build an outdoor ferret enclosure with dirt mounds and pvc to create burrows.

Glad all the avian specialists came to view your site. I am awaiting their videos on building a chicken run. Good video by the way.

I'm sure those chickens are very happy with that new additon to their housing arrangement.

The chickens are so happy with their big yard , ❤❤

It looks good! My wife and I are looking to have chickens next year!

Thank you so much a lot of important knowledge to get somebody going through a basic chicken coop for extending their chicken coop. Thank you so very much.

If you fill with sand wood will last longer and put rocks on the base of the wood. Can get sand from the river or beach

A simple yet good looking build. Thank you. I am looking at ideas to expand our chicken run and this is a good idea. I appreciate that you mention the prices of material. My wife was looking at buying one of them pre-fab chain link dog run things to put around them, but I like building and can do this for much cheaper than that pre-fab. Thank you again.

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I appreciate your creative work for birds .

you are lucky my friend, you got you she as supportive friend!

amazing video thank you

This looks wonderful! I may steal this idea except for one change: I'd use heat treated wood (steam), not pressure treated (with toxic chemicals). But, other than that, nice!

If you want to grow grass for the chickens in the new run, make a box any size, maybe 2ft x 4ft, or any size you want, and cover the top with chicken wire ( put a brace in the middle to support their weight, and plant grass seed, or whatever kind of seed you want, (that they will eat) inside the box. As it grows the chickens will stand on the wire and will peck at it, but not tear up the ground! You might plant a few of them along one side of the run and have them grow at different times to always have greenery available! ( plant thicker than normal) Just a suggestion! God Bless!

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This is a great build. Do you ever cover it for shade or rain/snow protection? Wondering how it’s held up to the weight of snow. ❤

You did a great job showing some tips about how to save $ on the wood. One way we are planning on keeping the chickens from trying to dig out is to lay hardware on the ground around the parameter and then put the fence on and finish it off with sand. We used this when we were setting up the coop and it worked great...even helped keep the mice out!

Chickens dig holes for their heath of mites. You might make a dust bath separate (a tire, a kids swimming pool etc).

Nice! Thanks for the $ saving tips. Need to build a chicken run, as well:)

Great video, great job.. thanks

thanks you are great

Nice to see how it became a family project. I know the chooks will be safe within the run...

a simpler solution would be to not cut down every single shrub or bush because you want a clean yard. my grandparentss kept chicken and rarely a hawk managed to catch one because their yard wasn't a golf course.

What are you using to secure the chicken wire / Hardware Cloth to the posts? Looked pretty quick and easy! Love the tip on the timbers vs 4x4s!

Very informative. Thanks!

Great job...

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You're lucky the city made us get rid of our Chickens. 🐔🐓

We have 13 chickens and 2 ducks in an area just under 2 acres and a coop ~450 Sq ft. Breaking down the chickens of 5 roosters, 7 hens, and 1 undecided. The ducks have a male and female. All about the same hatching dates... as everyone depends upon each other. They truly utilize the land to its fullest each day! Previous there were sheep, goats, turkeys, and chickens for ~3 years. 3/5 is open and 2/5 has trees that are somewhat cleared out underneath. Predators are crazy in large numbers. The majority listen when I talk to them keeping an unique harmony in this animal farm; similar to the book with a Dr Doolittle twist. Domesticated or wildlife of all kinds living a free range lifestyle. As the stewardship requires two requests... 1) all hunters will be terminated, including all relatives. 2) the Golden rule is the law of these 18 acres downtown; 2 blocks off main street. Yes, crazy enough to have worked for 12 + years. No one wishes to experience that "one BAD day in their life!" Local folks are totally amazed and during hunting seasons each year, the swearing goes to high levels. But, if they're hungry I do have a 3 acre market garden... not including food forests and long term crops sections. About 5 acre for natural habitats for wildlife. The only thing that's out of control are the chemtrails and weather changes! All unnatural and government controlled... to an extent of____! Thanks to researching paid by tax dollars and the air force over Citizens of America private lands; having little to do within natural climate changes! No worries ahead , as many have washed their hands turning blinded eyes of beliefs. Many items on any homesteads can be accomplished with proper thoughts. At what levels are subscribers challenged at for a brighter tomorrow? Enjoy your lifestyle that you are able to create! Thanks for your DIY examples.

Love watching chicken. What place you are located

I wonder where you got that fence for your property line! 🤔 I have a 2 year old so I’m interested haha!

Hi there, thank you very much for this video, could you please name the electronic tools you used to attach posts and wire. Thanks

Did you bury your fence or do you just use the rock as a deterrent?

Just curious... Why did you make it so low, when your posts were already tall enough for it to be around 6 feet? Thanks

How often do you have to work inside that new co-op? If you need to work there regularly, maybe you need to adjust the hight so that you don‘t ruin your back! 😅 I only work in a position which is comfy for my back.

I can imagine when it rains , it’s a mud pit, I rather go with a roof

Don't guess I've ever seen anyone have luck with landscape timbers vs treated posts. I've got 6" treated posts on my fence right now that are 40 years old and that's in a humid wet area of the country.

Love the video. Can’t wait to build my own for my chickies. How far apart are the posts from each other?

I would have put small square chicken wire under the rocks which helps with chicken thieves

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What kind of fencing is that on the roll?

Hi, Do I need permission from township for starting chicken farm ?

Nice set up. Not 100% sure but I don’t think those 5/4” deck boards are meant for direct contact with earth. Hoping to get started with chickens here soon. Thanks for the video! Terry

Hi my dears, you forgot to say how you decided how far apart to put the posts, and how far apart they are. Is there any way you could add that info?

Rain time?

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What about rain?

instead of using more wire for the seams just use strong zip ties

Do you put that rocks around the coup against predators?...you should just lay metal mesh on the ground 20cm inside or outside and cover witih dirt

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Não meche com migo não, tá bom que eu não sou flor de cheiro não, tá bom.

Don't chicken coops have to be 50 ft from the property line?

Not a good idea. Shuld have made a wooden net box portable

Get a saw mill

You are not saving money because the Landscape timber will not last three years, You will be redoing it!

1:29 landscape timbers will rot in about 3 to 5 years, 4x4 30 to 35years!? just saying nice video though.

I never would have thought about those as lumber options. I love it. That there just saved me solid cash and I appreciate it.

Please put a riving knife on that table saw! It’ll help prevent kickback or binding on long cuts, cheers

You ought to look at making little wooden squares with that hardware cloth over the top. Allows grass to go through but they can't scratch and kill it. Could be an option of putting some in there!

I used the electric fence posts that you can push into the ground with your foot and regular chicken wire that I used twist wire to secure to the posts and to itself for my expanded chicken run. Its held up well after several months, and I plan to expand it again next month because I'm going to be doubling my flock. Cost me less than $100 as well, 'cause I caught the chicken wire on sale.

This is very true information! 3 years is right! They will rot 5 times faster than 4x4 post. Words from experience,

Nice addition to the chicken run. I would have just kept the height of the timbers to keep it tall so you could stand inside, add perches, makes cleaning up poop easier. You make is look so easy, now I want to add an extension on my run.

Landscaping timbers and ripping deck boards are great ideas!

Great video! As always precision work with beautiful outcome! I really enjoy your videos and watching your family help you!🙂❤🐔🐓🔨

everything is superb but the pole standing only with support of soil is disturbing me, if any heavy rain the soil will loosen and chance for poles to collapse, my advice is pls pour concreate suppoort to poles for atleast 1 feet below ground , it will give both support and Termite resistant.

Like project. Please slow down video.

you should still have a wire skirt about 18" on the outside underneath your rocks to keep predators from digging in

Nice video, sending suport from piggybankers18, 🤗

What is the cost

Thank you for mentioning the alternative lumber choices and the fact that lumber prices are crazy compared to two years ago. Great video.....great job! Thanks!

How far did you space your vertical landscaping timbers? Just trying to get ideas for my chicken run!

The wood will rot quickly... Clever americans =D

The mobile chicken coop is best ...they can eat always fresh grass

I feel for you having to dig on a slant AND into that red clay. My yard is nothing but that clay and it’s a beast when it’s dry because it’s like brick, and horrible when it’s wet because it’s just a gummy mess that gets stuck in the diggers. You had your hands full no doubt!

Nice build and well explained. We ran hardware cloth vertically 12" deep around the perimeter. The hardware cloth or chicken wire around the lower fence line sounds good.

Your sweet family is goals!

Great job!! Thank you for sharing your project. I use treated landscaping timbers as post & still holding up eight years running! 😊

I would put more boards to hold the screen up during the heavy snow season.

Lumber prices have changed a lot! That 4x4x8 that you were comparing at $17.38 is now $9.27 (in my area at least) and the landscape is $4.68. Would you still use the timbers over the 4x4 post if you're only saving $4.59 each?

Landscape timbers, yes! I just did the same thing building a fence around my garden. I saved over $100 using timbers instead of pressure treated dimensional lumber

so how many years or decades to get a return on the costs of lumber and wire?

Very nice. I love that . Nice design.

Bos kandang nya mantap jiwa tolong bantu lek saskrep y bos biyar sama 2 bertambah dan berkembang okeh bos plis

May I know which type hardware cloth do you used for building the chicken run?

Racoons can move those rocks. Big mistake not digging up floor first and laying a mesh floor then reburying it. Connect mesh to walls

Guys did an amazing job but I think I’ll stick to just buying it from the store thank you😊

Very informative video. Thanks. I just subscribed too!

Hay que dejarles el césped natural

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That's a nice looking chicken coop run...like the rocks makes it look alot nicer

Why so deep for the post hole? Standard fence holes is 18”

Very nice thx! How much was the bucket of rock?

quanto hai speso in totale? grazie