In this sixteenth Krewe of Coops virtual coop tour, we visit a dozen beautiful backyard coops built using The Garden Coop walk-in chicken coop plans. Lots of cool colors, materials, and customizations!
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“Krewe of Coops” Chicken Coop Tour, No. 14 — Fifteen (Anything But) Basic Chicken Coops
When we named our stand-alone chicken coop design “The Basic Coop,” we meant it purely as a compliment. The design is basic, of course, in that it’s easy to build and easy to afford.
But that simplicity makes it a great starting point to extend, customize, and create the perfect housing for your small backyard flock. In this sense, The Basic Coop design is anything but basic. These fifteen customer builds will show you what I mean. . . .
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Make It Your Own: The Swifts’ Backyard Chicken Coop from The Garden Loft Plans (aka “The Loft for Our Eggstraordinary Ladies”)
Caity and family built and customized a beautiful Garden Coop a few years ago for their backyard flock in North Carolina, full of added features and decorative touches. Now they’ve completed yet another amazing coop — a Garden Loft Large Walk-in Chicken Coop that outshines even their earlier masterpiece. The rest of this post comes directly from Caity. . . .
Make It Your Own: Matt’s Copper-Top Garden Coop Walk-in Chicken Coop, Raleigh, North Carolina
Matt in Raleigh used The Garden Coop walk-in chicken coop plans and coop hardware quick kit to create a beautifully customized copper-top coop. It looks stunning new, and the copper will only gain character as it ages. The photos and notes that follow come directly from him. . . Read More
Make It Your Own: “Krewe of Coops” Virtual Chicken Coop Tour, No. 3
In this third ride of the Krewe of Coops, we feature The Garden Ark mobile chicken coop design, with several examples from around the U.S. Enjoy the parade!
Make It Your Own: Michelle’s “Hippie Chicks” Chicken Coop, Durham, North Carolina
Michelle built this adorable North Carolina chicken coop using The Basic Coop plans and hardware kit. Her four chicks moved in in the fall, and she wrote recently to say that they made it through the cold, snowy winter with no issues — and no added light or heat (or lava lamps). Read More
Make It Your Own: Kristopher & Family’s Spokane Chicken Coop Built Using The Garden Coop Plans
Kristopher and his family in Spokane, Washington, built a beautiful chicken coop using our Garden Coop walk-in chicken coop plans as a guide. I love the attention to detail, for instance, in their choice of hinges, ladder construction, dark blue trim, and neatly attached hardware cloth. They also added a nifty PVC feeder they can fill from outside the coop. Read More
Make It Your Own: Bill and Chris’s Massachusetts Walk-in Garden Coop Chicken Coop
Bill and Chris in Southeastern Massachusetts built a beautiful chicken coop using The Garden Coop walk-in chicken coop plans. They sent us some nice pictures and a detailed description of all they did to make it their own. The rest of the post comes directly from Chris. . . . Read More