Portable Chicken Coops
May 16, 2009
I’ve had a few e-mails since my Buying Lumber for Pennies post and my Eggs post about chicken coops. I had planned on posting about this later but this seems like a good time!
Jeff built these incredible, PORTABLE chicken coops for some friends of ours, he built two of them.
The sides come off so they can be cleaned out and eggs gathered.
Now they are HEAVY and it takes 2 people to move them,
but they are portable, which allows for free range feeding.
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Emma helped Dad with the project.
Happy chickens live in Alabama!
Our family lives in an area with a lot of restrictions which makes it difficult to have chickens. Olivia will be petitioning our city council to see if we can have chickens if we use this or a similar design for a coop. Anyone who knows Olivia knows we have heard her “I want chickens rant” for years! It’s pretty funny, but she is dead serious!
On our Tools Page there are several websites listed that will help teach about tools and materials to build with, they may be something you’d want to check out with your children
If you would like to buy the plans for this chicken coop you can BUY IT HERE!
If you live local and would like to have Jeff make you a coop, just e-mail me.
Topics: Boys!, Family Economics, farming, Frugal Choices, Resourcefulness, Woodworking | 7 Comments »
Comments (7)
Oh these are so neat! We live in town right now but we are doing our best to get back out in the country. I’ll have to remember this when we get moved!
I’d love to hear the “I want chickens” rant!
Dana
I’m the one in my household ranting “I want chickens”! I can’t wait to have fresh eggs and I’ll enjoy just having the chickens around to watch and feed. Love the coop idea.
We too live in zoning that does not allow chickens but we are interested in how other people are petitioning to be able to have chickens. We live in a small town on the outskirts near the country side of the county but when our houses were built down this country road it was meant to be a housing development that just never happened but the original zoning ordinances are still in place. The funny thing is across the street the houses are zoned completely different than ours (zoned for farming/raising animals, etc.). It isn’t really fair so we are interested in how others got to be able to have chickens when the zone says differently! Thanks!
[...] has build 4 of these for friends, using this pattern, but decided to design his own to make it easier to move. [...]
Love this! We do live in town but legally can own chickens as long as they don’t run free or create too much noise. We’ve built a small coop and put it and our 3 girls in an 8×8 dog kennel figuring that if it keeps dogs in, it should also keep out those wandering the neighborhood. So far, so good. However this confines them to one area of the yard. Would love to be able to move them around.
I am wondering where you put the hens when cleaning or moving the coop. Also need to think about heating options since it gets so cold here in NE. Currently we use a heat lamp whenever it’s below freezing which means all night and sometimes all day too. Not sure how that would work in such a tight space. Thanks for the ideas!
The coop has to be moved slowly. The chickens will hide themselves in the top part so they do not need to be taken out.
I can see that chicken in the north would be more of a challenge.