Best Chicken Coop Design Checklist | Learn the Must-Haves for any Chicken Coop
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2019
- Matt gives a walk-through of a custom chicken coop designed to match a new home in Alabama. He talks about all the details that make this chicken coop so unique and beautiful, but also points out all the must-haves you need in any coop to keep your flock healthy and to make chicken keeping fun, easy, and stress-free.
Some design elements include reclaimed barn wood doors, cupola, 12:12 pitch roof, hand split cedar shingles, arched doors and windows, automatic chicken run door, predator apron, half inch coated hardware cloth, deep litter bed with industrial hemp, pull out storage drawers and more.
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That is my lottery winner version of a chicken coop!
Wow! This is one of the nicest coops I’ve ever seen. I can hardly wait to watch every one of your videos. Great job!
This is my favorite Coop that you have made so far. Absolutely beautiful. Great workmanship.
Thank you Julie. ❤
All the haters talking crap because the owner has some money and probably made better life choices then you did. Why always the need to shit on people. The person makes a good living. Could have put a tennis court or putting green or something along those lines but chose to have chickens. I think its pretty cool they went that route. Just enjoy it and don’t find the need to hate on things because its not in your budget.
AI L this is Matt the guy in the video. Thank you! My thoughts exactly.
I just today asked dad if we could get chickens. Since I got married & moved out, dad hasn't had chickens (1978). I'm moving back with him, I think I can take care of chickens with ur coops & system (I'm older of course & now disabled now). I will show him all those great vids which explain the materials & ease of care for inside the henhouse! We did discuss how nitrogen content & ... so ? Maybe?
Awesome work!!
Love the weather vane too
WOW! Dream Coop!
Beautiful coop!
As I am a crafty projects, I can see the attention you put into your craftsmanship into your details, in your for thought everything works together, love your coops
Thank you so much!
@@CarolinaCoopsVideos you are going to be the first company I will be buying a American coop, I hope
Wow. Just WOW!
Thanks Brandon!
Awesome!
Love your coops
I love watching your videos and love the product you make. Definitely allot of experience has gone into your designs. I'm a woodworker (hobby) and love the way you design your coops. My wife decided we needed chickens recently and has raised 6 in our cellar for the past 2 months. Time to build a coop. You can bet I'm going to do a deep litter design and many design aspects of what you guys create. I feel I owe you guys for some great ideas. I'm going to hit your website and buy some accessories for the coop to support your business. Hemp, watering system, etc. will soon be ordered. I will also share your business with allot of my friends since I only have time to build my own.
Thank you for the kind words Ken. And thank you for recommending us and for buying our accessories. We hope you get some good tips from our videos on building your own coop.
Man Wonderful beautiful coop!
Thank you so much for the kind words
Very nice!
0:46 ok guys, so where’s the follow-up?
Love your stuff!
It's so pretty
Beautiful coop..
Awesome
Fantastic coop, and excellent video - Many thanks!
I need this!
Love that
A perfect coop
Lucky ladies!
I got my eye on your chicken and duck combo coop !
🦆 ❤️ 🐓
We have another one like that coming up soon. Stay tuned and subscribe so you know when the video is up.
Carolina Coops Videos Keep me in mind for a Duck/Chicken coop.
I live in northern VT!
Snow and cold are my concerns..
( I know from your videos it shouldn’t be, LOL)
That's a beautiful coop! Awesome job!
Beautiful work!
Love it
thank you.
Martha Stewart would approve this chicken mansion!
I’m so jealous but the craftsmanship of this coop is amazing. Great job!!!
Thank you Karol. It's a beautiful coop and we are happy you can see the amazing craftsmanship of this coop.
Great
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GOOD job >> i like you work >>> i'm from palestine i appreciate your work >> i have learned alot from you esperance >> and i start have jop of wood working >> i made 3 chiken coop till now >>> thank you alot
Thanks for watching!
Amazing doors inside the run. Maybe put larger magnets on the panels and let them adhere to the security mesh so you wouldn’t notice the metal in the wood frame.
Love your work. Planning on using you when I’m ready for some chickens at Mayo Lake, Roxboro.
Thank you. We will be waiting.
Not sure what’s going on in my life right now to explain why I find this fascinating 😊😊
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This is how it all starts 🐓🥚 😁
Once upon a time, how to raise animals right would have been something that everyone would have been interested in. We're all descended from Neolithic, Bronze Age, farmers who lived and worked amongst animals. No accountants, no office jobs, no bank clerks etc- we lived & breathed the rural. And I'm sure the thousands upon thousands of years of this lifestyle imprinted on us a bit (I can imagine that thousands of years ago, there were many ancient scenes like this, with prehistoric farmers sharing tips on raising & keeping livestock).
I find it such a shame that so many people are so miserably proud that they eat rubbish food (KFC, nuggets, etc), they don't care about how their food is raised or where it comes from. Industrialisation has brought about a mass-apathy for both what we consume and how it's made.
It means you want chickens!🐣🐔🐥🐓🐤
Great work and craftsmanship.
Wow that is a beautiful chicken coop I really like the hen house shed in the middle like that
Awesome COOP, it just adds to the frontal view of the house. Can you do it in India
You're the best! A dutch door would be perfect to keep my naughty goats out.
We are now selling our dutch doors as accessory items! Not currently on our website but give us a call and we can ship it to your front door! 919.794.3989
Wow
I 👍 like.
I love the wood work on this coop.
Thank you for your compliment! As woodworkers, we love any chance to use old barn wood.
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That chicken coops is nicer than my house! Who can afford this??
Edit: pans to the house....Ohhhhhh ok. Yep.
This is only for the type of chicken that lay silver eggs and occasionally gold.
If you have trees on your property and a sawmill the only things you have to buy is the hardware cloth the hinges and latches and the parts for the windows
And the copper flashing and the weathervane
I want a golden goose!
These chickens live better than 94 percent of the human population in the world.
I would use 6in. PVC pipe to run up to the vent cap or whatever you called it from inside the hen house.
Your chicken coops are well thought out to keep chickens safe and healthy but......
What about mosquitos , biting flies and mites.??
My parents used screen panels that just fit right in on the inside of the coop during flying critter seasons...
Plus they used different dried herb mixtures to put in their dusting area and in nest boxes....
It keeps the mites out of their nest boxes....
Planting certain herbs around the outside of the coop keeps mosquitos away and making sure water tanks are covered up to prevent mosquito larva from being in drinking water....
These plants really work to keep these biting critters out .....
Anyway just thought I would mention that !!
My mother never used pesticides so she relied on natural things to do the job...
My dad built my mother's coop very much like yours cause he knew how special the chickens were to my mom....
The screen panels had to be cleaned periodically to keep dust from clogging them up so there is work involved
You were saying about the compost in the run..?
Beautiful coop! Not be a jerk but the electrical conduit work done on the inside was quite amateur. So many better ways to do that and keep the aesthetic quality of the coop in balance.
I don’t disagree with you at all. I always get extremely worried when customers bring in an outside electrician to run the electric. Most of the time I find that the electricians get annoyed that they are working on a chicken coop and don’t care about esthetics.
Those chickens lucked out and hit the jackpot on getting rich owners. What was the cost of that set up 60k?
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hey ,if anyone else trying to find out how to build a chicken coop and run plans try coop magic tactic ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my co-worker got great success with it.
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Probably 15k
What is the color of this coop? Looks like a deep green, can you share the color information?
Lovely concept....wonder how it would work out in Jamaica, cost etc, time to construct
We ship our coops all around the world! Give us a call and our sales rep can give you a quote! 919.794.3989
Apparently you don't know that water running off of cedar shakes will dissolve copper over time. Takes a couple of years or so, but all you copper valleys are going to leak big time. A lot of people out west have discovered that the hard way with copper gutters.
You guys are amazing!... What a combo of great design, functionality and aesthetics! I enjoy watching and learning from every one of your videos I see. Thank you!
What if in that situation you were to run a piece of air ducting from there chicken coop into the chicken run and then the Cupolla would be functional?
Also, in the video you were about to tell us the type of compost used, but it seem to be edited out?
Your coops are amazing, the chickens would be living better than I do. I'm a new chicken farmer in the city and I wish I could afford one of your coops but I know that I can't. Great job keep up the great work, I know you're making chicken people very happy with their coops
With the ladder, is that at a 45 degree pitch?
Have you considered a French cleat for the ladder/ramp to the door instead a hook and eye lag?
We haven't tried that. Most of our choices are for the ease of the customer and to try to keep costs down. But we can see where a French cleat would work in this coop. Thanks for watching.
Oh my life!! That is one gorgeous coop!!
Thank you Wendy!
Carolina Coops Videos you're very welcome!
Love watching your videos... And the reason I buy your hemp straw now. 😊
Beautiful job! I wonder if a bear could push its way through the hardware cloth?
For people who live near a place where there is a lot of bears, we can use an even stronger gauge. However, it how we attach the hardware cloth to the Douglas fir 2x4s that makes it so strong. We haven't had a predator get into any of our coops. Thanks for watching.
Bear vs. hardware cloth = Bear wins.
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"SuperCoup!" Great job.
Thank you!
I normally have six to eight hens going Brody want to be mama so I will have to have extra nesting departments.
Never use tapcons on a sill plate. Use anchor bolts or drill to install mechanical hilti type connections.
What a fantastic looking project! Gave me some ideas for the conversion I'm about to do with an old duck pen out back to get ready for our own chickens. For those folks focusing upon the cost of this setup, bear in mind that the $30k+ is money that is finding its way to a lot of different people involved in the manufacturing and transport of the materials and the construction by Carolina Coops crew. Be thankful there are individuals with the money to spend on something like this. From a builder's perspective, I can tell you that these kinds of custom projects are often the most enjoyable and memorable.
Thank you Chris. We appreciate your insight and your understanding of what goes into a project like this. And they certainly are the most memorable and fun.
Holy chicken poop! 30K+ is one and a third times my annual income!! Expensive eggs. I can just see the tax assessor property roll. "Chicken Coop 30K" "Hey George, I think you slipped a digit here."
More power to them if they can afford this obvious luxury. Beautiful coop.
Hi Matt and team, over the last two days I watched a whole bunch of your videos, love them, and the beautiful workmanship. One thing I don't get though... you always have that little 3-step ladder to get out of the deep-litter area of the coop... is that more just to satisfy an un-realistic human worry? Because it seems like if they need a ladder to get up to the door height, how are they going to get up to the roosting bars which are even higher? I know they mostly just jump and flap a bit but is this part of the 1-size-fits-most part of the plans? is it just because the inner ladder is an easy thing to add? if people are concerned about Silkies which can't jump as high? or what's the reasoning?
Hi Martin. In some of Matt's videos you will see him addressing this and your reasons are exactly right. It's really for very young birds or silkies. Same goes for the perch bars on the side of the nest boxes. We try to standardize some features with a one-size-fits all kind of design. But you're correct, it's not really necessary but it's a request we got enough times that it makes it easier to make it standard. Thanks for watching and for the compliments.
This is incredible! You thought of everything.
thank you! We are glad you appreciate all the details.
Just run a duct straight from coop to cupola?
You can have only shingles!? How does it not leak in between the cedar??
The attention to detail is amazing another great coop
Thank you!
He started talking about what to put on the bottom of the inside run and was cut off. It said something about Ph. Does anyone know what is the material?
This short video about the prep of the coop will explain it.
ruclips.net/video/w9oVolKv_DA/видео.html
the only comment is where you said you need to put a step by the door, which makes sense, but now that step has to be across the whole are, in order to reach the nesting box because it's to high. The box should have been make lower and then you only would have to put the steps by door. and the windows inside the shed area, they seem to high to unlatch and pull down. You seem to be reaching for it. Just a thought. very nice thought. I don't know how much I like chickens to spend that kind of money. but it's nice so is the house there building.
Hi Robert. A step was added, actually the whole grade around the coop was adjusted so the coop works perfectly now inside and out. Thanks for watching.
4 minutes in... when does the "checklist" start?
I don’t want to be that guy, but I am. Why are the ridge caps on the run running in opposites directions on each side of the cupola?
A dutch door would allow your chickens to come out - and keep your little goats out of the coop. This is important because eating chicken feed can kill them. But otherwise, goats and chickens get along great. My Nigerian Dwarf goats have favorite hens they are known to cuddle with at nap time.
Thank you for pointing out another good reason to have a Dutch door! And thanks for watching.
how do you prevent chickens from using water source as a roost bar?
It is due to how closely mounted the water bar is to the wall. It is only an inch or two away, which does not give any adult chicken room to sit.
I am a carpenter and I have to say that your coops are very good craftsmanship
You need a double-layer of doors for the chicken coop, like in Canada, just to make sure no chickens get out.
Not sure we understand what you're saying here.
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Can you provide the approximate cost of this build for our reference? Thanks!
Hi! We never give out the cost of our custom coops out of privacy respect for our customers. If you are interesting in buying a coop like this, please contact us for estimates.
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Thanks for watching.
40k to 50k
48000
@@Ethan18586 Thanks!
Lovely coop, especially the arched windows and chicken-chimney :)
Love the follow up on this lovely coop! You guys "rock"!
Thank you! Thanks for always watching too!
Gorgeous. Totally love all your coops, but this one is so "organically" beautiful.
Thank you! We love all the wood details too.
I have spent months researching into building coops and found an awesome website at Coop Magic Tactic (google it if you're interested)
How far apart are your 2x4s in the run
For the length of the run they are approximately 3 feet apart. (On the side they are approx. 4 feet apart.)
Sarah Lockwood Winchester Relative? That is NOT a chicken coop. Even a little. And the beat goes on.
What color is the coop?
wow no A/C?
Cuplas to small . under size for structure, also all tha nice work and you see all that crap electrical . other wise Beautiful Guys!
Could you send me the link to the compost that was placed in this coop by Cecil please. I can’t seem to find it but would love to get all the details for the compost inside the run.
Thank you so much.
my chicken coop just collapsed so im looking for a new design :(
Love your coops beautiful job
Thank you.
Carolina Coops Videos wish I could afford one but we are both on disability so hubby will have to build me a coop lol
@@trishsimmons5891 We completely understand. Many of our fans build their own coops, we hope they find inspiration and tips from us when they do.
Carolina Coops Videos ty I have made a coop plan and your coops inspired me to make sure he put in a deep litter area
One word. Mariantoinette.
It's official, I'm questioning my living space...
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I don’t do Instagram of Facebook or any social media
One of the best coop very creative you guys out did your self’s
What kind of hay?
I love the New Coop in this video. Do you guys build Dove coops too?
They are usually like chicken coops ; just with smaller nesting boxes
we can build anything you need. Just contact us at sales@carolinacoops.com, or call us at 919-794-3989
Why do the walls have to be taller with a 12/12 pitch?
MrLes Berg it makes the angle cut in the tale of the rafter longer so we find it works and looks better to make the walls taller.
Thank you. We're building a mobile coop in north Idaho based on many of your features. We're building a coop for a flock of about 20 - ten Americaunas and ten Rhode Island Reds. We're building it on an 8x18 foot travel trailer frame. The basic design is similar to one of your custom coops, specifically the white clapboard one with a shed on one end and the duck house on the other. We'll have a 3 foot deep shed at the front of the trailer, followed by an 8x10 raised hen house with the floor about three feet above the trailer deck. The remaining five feet will be a roofed run that is open to the area under the hen house.Our biggest design challenges are snow load, trailer frame flex, and fairly common high winds. We're looking at a 12/12 roof pitch and possibly building folding eaves so the trailer can be towed legally (should we move yet again). I'm addressing frame flex by using a 4x4 perimeter 'foundation' on top of the frame with 4x4 posts in five places on each side wall and down the center. My biggest concern, however, is the lack of shear strength in the walls fore and aft. The 18 foot coop will only have a 3 foot section of each side that's fully sheathed. At the moment, I'm debating whether to use diagonal 4x4's or tensioning rods in the side walls to provide shear strength. I also need to research how best to attach the 4x4 corner posts to the 4x4 perimeter framing. I'm leaning towards fabricating 'L' shaped steel plates on the bottom and angles for the sides and bolting it together.I'd be happy to send you the plans when we're all done.
@@slateslavens Sounds like an amazing design and we would love to see the finished product. Please send any photos to ingrid@carolinacoops.com. Thank you.
The way rich people raise chickens.