New Chicken Pen For The Spring

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Posted by admin | Posted in Building Chicken Coops | Posted on 29-04-2010

Tags: backyard chickens, chicken coop


In order to save our lawn and garden I had to build a new chicken pen to attach to the chicken coop I built last year. We let our hens run free all Fall and Winter and they practically destroyed the backyard. Once the plants and grass are grown back in this summer we will let them out again. I looked at alot of chicken pens online and decided this was the best design for our hens. We added one a feature to it that I am sure no other chicken pen has. We added a compost screener to the top.


I will create a video shortly to show you how this works but for now I will just explain it. The top of the chicken pen is half inch hardclothe so we built a separate frame around that hardclothe that creates the top of the pen and we can remove to shift our compost.

New Chicken Coop

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Posted by admin | Posted in Building Chicken Coops, chickens | Posted on 25-08-2009

Tags: backyard chickens, chicken coop, city chickens, fresh eggs

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Here is the chicken coop I finally finished hours before our road trip to Quebec, Canada. The chickens hadn’t had a permanent home and since we were not going to be around for 10 days I had to whip something up.

I used the “chicken tractor” that we bought for them as chicks as the roof and I built a box as a base (4′ wide x2.5′ high x 2′ deep)  I set that on top of four cinderblocks, cut out a doorway, built a ladder and run that enclosed the whole coup.


The roof is on hinges so it can if off for cleanings and egg extraction and the run has a hinged roof that provides a bit of rain protection and allows me to stand up inside the run. Then we built a hinged door leading into the run.

Cost to build was approx. $150 which included some tools (drill bits, snips, etc.) I did not have. It does not include the cost of the roof which is the chicken tractor that cost $99. I will shoot some video to give a tour and more details.

New Chicken Coop

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