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June 26, 2012, 11:15 am

Chicken Coop Tour – DIY coop, four chickens, cost about $400 (tongue and groove cedar!)

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Welcome to the Queen Bee Coop-on Tour. Every day for the next couple weeks or so I’ll be featuring a different chicken coop! These were all sent in by Queen Bee readers. Here’s our second coop, sent in by Angie in Vancouver, Washington!

Cost: About $400. We ended up spending a little more then they wanted to because they live so close to their neighbors. The neighbors now call it the “Hilton Henhouse”!

Who built? We built our own coop! We used a lot of ideas and pictures from BackYardChickens.com for inspiration.

Favorite features: My favorite features are the tongue and groove cedar siding my husband found cheap, we have two guillotine style doors to let the chickens in and out of the henhouse and out of the coop into the run. My favorite feature is the poop hammock I made.  I came across this in my research and WOW what a difference it has made in cleaning.  I never have to pick up poop in the henhouse.  Just take it out and shake it into the compost pile.  It has saved me time and money.  (See picture w/ LuLu modeling for you)

A coop poop hammock, who knew?

How many chickens do you have?  We have 4 chickens – Austrlorp, Buff Orpington, Siler-laced Wyandotte and an Ameraucana.  They are very sweet and get along great with our kids and German Shepard.  One of my girls is always worming and grubbing for treats for the hens.
Do you have suggestions for new chicken owners? My recommendation would be to get your chicks in February because we didn’t until the end of May and they didn’t start laying until early November – so less eggs.

Thank you Angie for sending in your coop photos! I love the style and that tongue and groove cedar siding is super classy! I love the look. I also like the stone foot path you put around it.

Do you have chicken coop? I’d love to see photos and you can be featured here on Queen Bee! Email it to me at thehive@queenbeetoday.com with the subject line coop tour. 

Chicken resources:

  • Building Chicken Coops For Dummies – $12.03 (reg. $19.99)
  • Chicken Coops: 45 Building Ideas for Housing Your Flock – $13.48 (reg. $19.95)
  • The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit (The Joy of Series) – $14.95
  • Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition – $12.36

Feed and water:

  • Hanging Poultry & Gamebird Feeder with Feed Pan, 30 Lb Galvanized Steel – $23.97 (reg. $27.99)
  • Little Giant 11 Lbs Plastic Hanging Poultry Feeder PHF11 – $19.99
  • Little Giant 3 Gallon Plastic Poultry Fountain PPF3 – $33.50 (reg. $39.99)
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  1. Jacquii says

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Love coop, very similar to ours.
    How did you make poop hammock

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  2. melissa says

    April 2, 2020 at 9:01 am

    Amazing. I want to build one just like it . can you sent me the plans or where to get them.?

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    • Maygan says

      April 7, 2020 at 4:43 am

      This one was submitted by a reader years ago so unfortunately we don’t have a shareable plan. It looks like they put it together with tips from the Backyard Chickens forum. There is one specifically for building and planning your coop, you can check that out here –> https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/coop-run-design-construction-maintenance.9/

      Reply
  3. Jennifer Mason says

    March 30, 2020 at 11:43 am

    Just wondering if I can get the plans for this?

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  4. Robert Olson says

    March 24, 2020 at 11:36 am

    This looks amazing! Is it possible to share materials/plans?

    Reply
  5. NIck says

    June 23, 2018 at 3:41 pm

    This is perfect. Is there’s any way to get plans or list of materials?

    Reply
  6. Enock DeAssis says

    June 20, 2018 at 4:27 am

    Hello from South Africa Angie! I love you coop. We are building our first and coop ever. Would that possible for you to send us the blueprints and list of supplies we need to purchase? I really want to make this. Will send pictures once it is done with our African chickens on it.
    Thank you so much! Enock

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  7. Mandy says

    April 12, 2018 at 7:15 am

    Are there plans for this coop – this is just what I am looking for!

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  8. Deborah Reid says

    March 17, 2018 at 7:34 pm

    Is there plans/parts list for this coop?
    Thank you!
    Debi

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  9. Ansley says

    December 21, 2017 at 7:20 pm

    Could you email the plans and supplies? beautiful coop!

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  10. Cassandra says

    August 15, 2016 at 10:02 am

    Would you care to send me the blueprints for this? I think you and your hubby did a fantastic job! I love the size and would love to (attempt) build one similar to this!

    Reply
  11. heather woolverton says

    April 12, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    Angie do you have plans for your coop? It is exactly what my husband and I were looking for!!!!

    Reply
  12. joseph Quigley says

    March 8, 2016 at 11:24 am

    Is there any way to get measurements for this coop? I really like the design and the scale!!!

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  13. elle says

    February 8, 2014 at 7:20 pm

    I was wondering if you have a list of the supplies you used. We purchased the Garden Coop plans (which looks very similar to the one you build) and after doing a quick tally of the supplies, it looks like it would cost us around $700 to build. I’d love to do it for around $400. Any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated! Beautiful coop!

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  14. Diane says

    June 28, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    Beautiful coop! I have a question about using cedar wood. Someone told me that it is not good to use cedar on coops because chickens do not like the natural but strong aroma and oil that off gases from the cedar wood.

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  15. Monica says

    January 9, 2013 at 6:48 am

    Beautiful!

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  16. Courtney says

    January 3, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    Where did you get your screen door on your run?

    Reply
  17. emmetts says

    June 26, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    its all pretty impressive

    Reply

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