How Do You Build A Chicken Coop. If you've decided to raise backyard chickens in your own DIY chicken coop, you won't go wrong with these tips. Building a basic chicken coop for a small flock of birds is a solid weekend project for the determined do-it-yourselfer with basic carpentry skills, while the more elaborate coops could easily take several weeks (and will require advanced carpentry skills).
Check out these real life DIY chicken coops for fun and easy chicken coop ideas, plus simple step-by-step tutorials, and even chicken coop plans you can buy. It's time to build a new chicken coop! Option Two: Building a Chicken Coop from Scratch.
Plan the layout of your run next to your chicken coop.
Before you build or buy a chicken coop, you need to make sure it's going to be the right size.
However, I wish a little more research was done into building your coop, the first thing you should have stumbled across was hardware cloth instead of chicken wire. Place your chicken coop so that it is partially in the shade but still gets plenty of sun, and add windows covered with chicken wire to ensure plenty of fresh air. In this video I walk through the build of our new easy to clean coop and run.