Barn Pallet Chicken Coop

by Bobbie-A Vision To Remember

$800

3 Weeks

Medium

When my daughters asked their dad to buy them more chickens, I never could have imagined him building something so beautiful. Especially for chickens. But this is what my father in law and husband were able to build out of pallets. I absolutely love how it turned out. Now the girls are jealous that the chickens have such a beautiful playhouse.

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We started out with 5 solid plywood pallets. Then built a base for the chickens to have some shade.

We also fenced them in a nice large area so they could be free-ish range. We live in the country and raccoons and neighbors dogs could be a problem.

The huge chicken run for all 14 chickens

The inside of the chicken coop. The little waterer we are switching out for a 5 gallon bucket. Just haven't had time to get it done yet. There are 4 nesting boxes, but the older chickens like to share 1 box, and the younger 8 chickens share another. Its pretty funny to see them all piled up on top of each other at night.

Another look at the chicken run. We ended up taking out a corner of our pasture for the cows. Then they have tons of grass to roam around in to find bugs, but still are protected from natural predators out here in the country

I just love my little slice of heaven.

Another shot of the coop as we were building it.

I still can't believe that they created such a beautiful coop from scratch, with no plans at all!

Make sure to click on over to my blog to see many more pictures of the step by step process.

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Julie B on Jun 24, 2015
Very cute! Is the roost on the right of the door? Also can they get out to free range from inside the coop? Sorry, just trying figure out how they get under the coop and into their run.

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- Bobbie-A Vision To Remember on Jun 24, 2015
  the roost is on the opposite side of the man door. The small chicken door is to the right of the man door and there they have a ramp that takes them down to the run and they can get under the coop from there. They are kinda free range because they have such a large fenced in area. It's mostly to protect them from predators because we live in the country and raccoons and stray dogs are a problem.
  
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- Julie B on Jun 24, 2015
  @Bobbie-A Vision To Remember Thanks! I am very unhappy with our coop so I'd like to "present" some options to my husband. It looks like we may raise some meat birds so they can have the old coop!
  
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- Bobbie-A Vision To Remember on Jun 24, 2015
  My husbands family did meat chickens when he was growing up. They really liked it. I really like my eggs :)
  
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Karen Bruton on Jun 25, 2015
How many gallons of barn paint did you end up using for the coop? We're going to take a stab at painting our coop this weekend and it is roughly the same dimensions as yours!

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- Bobbie-A Vision To Remember on Jun 25, 2015
  It took almost the entire gallon. We did prime it first too.
  
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- Karen Bruton on Jun 25, 2015
  @Bobbie-A Vision To Remember Great, thank you!
  
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