Rural Gardening: Chicken Coops, 1 by lagata2

lagata2 wrote:
My old chicken coop was falling apart, and I wanted more room in a new one, both inside and out. We also have geese that I wanted to keep separate. I hated walking bent over, which I had to do in the old pen and run, so wanted it taller too. and no more dirt floor!

But then I asked myself, "what if I decide to quit keeping chickens?"

What resulted was dubbed at another forum, "the Chicken Palace"! The cost just kept going up as I kept changing the plans.

I figure I might someday raise exotic birds like parrots or cockatoos, board animals, use it as a small shop (even though I have a big one??) or live in it if worse came to worse, and a tornado sucked my house away! it's 8' plus tall, for the roof slant, 10x 20, and built so that insulation and drywall could be added easily, has electric, plumbing, 2 windows in back for air flow, 2 long ones in the side for daylight, sockets, a place overhead for a fan, cement floor, 50 yr guar. metal roof, and is bolted to the concrete pad. Not that the chickens care....and has two 'double dutch' doors with closable (?) chicen/goose doors in the bottom of each.

The run is a heavy gage welded wire, top and sides, with hardware cloth at the bottom to keep chicks inside, and it extends outward and is buried to prevent anything digging in.

Here it's not quite finished, and some of the chickens are wandering around to inspect. it.