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Make It Your Own: Eileen’s Mobile Garden Coop Built for Bunnies

May 10, 2021January 16, 2022 The Garden Coop 1 Comment

Eileen in Littleton, New Hampshire, used The Garden Coop walk-in chicken coop plans to customize a moveable home for her bunnies. The rest of this post comes from her. . . .

Make It Your Own: Kate’s Pigeon Loft from Plans, Evansville, Indiana

February 23, 2021January 16, 2022 The Garden Coop Leave a comment

Walk-in chicken coop modified from The Garden Coop plans for use as a pigeon loft. Natural wood with green trim and a large decorative pigeon on the front.

I love hearing from folks who use our chicken coop and run plans to create housing for pets other than chickens — rabbits, ducks, quail, and in this case: pigeons!

Narrow Garden Loft chicken coop modified from plans

How much room should I leave around my chicken coop when I build it?

January 16, 2021January 16, 2022 The Garden Coop 2 Comments

If you have the space in your yard to build a walk-in chicken coop, I’d leave at least two to three feet of working room on all sides of it. This will make construction easier, particularly when it comes to attaching hardware cloth and siding. And after the coop is built, having that space will make it easier for you to access the entire exterior of the coop should you need to. But what if you don’t have that much space to spare? Read on for some ideas. . .

How to secure your chicken coop in a high-wind area

December 3, 2020January 17, 2022 The Garden Coop Leave a comment

Texas chicken coop with black hardware cloth built using The Garden Coop chicken coop plans

The open design of our walk-in chicken coops means that wind can move easily through the structures, so there’s less chance for damage than with something like a solid-walled shed or mobile home. That said, if you live in a high-wind area, there are some simple ways to anchor your coop and lock down your roof.

Chickens roosting in the run at night rather than in the henhouse?

November 23, 2020January 17, 2022 The Garden Coop 13 Comments

Three of our chicken coop designs (The Garden Loft, The Garden Coop, and The Garden Ark) have an integrated henhouse and run. So your chickens are free to move between the two areas as they wish. (You can add a door between them if you like.) In some cases, this means that your flock might choose to roost in the secure run at night, rather than inside the henhouse.