Posts tagged with ‘The Garden Loft’
Saturday, January 16th, 2021
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. . .
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Tags: The Garden Coop, The Garden Loft, The Garden Run
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
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.
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Tags: Anchor, Foundation, Roofing, The Garden Coop, The Garden Loft, Wind
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Monday, November 23rd, 2020
Three of our 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.
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Tags: Chicken Run, Henhouse, Night, Roost, The Garden Ark, The Garden Coop, The Garden Loft
Posted in FAQs, Health and Safety | 7 Comments »
Thursday, December 20th, 2018

In this eleventh ride of the Krewe of Coops, we tour seven super-duper coops built using The Garden Loft large walk-in chicken coop plans. (more…)
Tags: Anchor, Atlanta, Chicken Coop Kits, Divider, Ducks, Georgia, Ground Slope, Gutter, Hardware Cloth, Indiana, Maine, Narrower, Oregon, Rain Barrel, Seattle, Taller, The Garden Loft, Virginia, Washington, Wind
Posted in Coop Construction, Make It Your Own | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 22nd, 2017

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 that outshines even their earlier masterpiece. The rest of this post comes directly from Caity. . . .
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Tags: Chicks, External Nesting Boxes, Ladder, North Carolina, Paint, Painted Henhouse, Sand, Siding, The Garden Loft
Posted in Make It Your Own | 17 Comments »
Saturday, September 23rd, 2017

In this seventh installment of the Krewe of Coops, I’m excited to show off five examples of our latest and largest coop design, The Garden Loft. . . (more…)
Tags: Chicken Coop Kits, Krewe of Coops, Massachusetts, Pop Door, Tennessee, The Garden Loft, Vermont, Washington
Posted in Coop Construction, Make It Your Own | 2 Comments »
Monday, December 19th, 2016
Pre-packed hardware kits are now available for our latest walk-in chicken coop design, The Garden Loft. . .

The Garden Loft Quick Kit contains all the hardware you need (screws, staples, hinges, latches, etc.) to put this design together. Just add the bulky stuff like wood, roofing panels, hardware cloth, pier blocks, paint, and so on. It’s priced near what you’d pay at your local big box store, and it ships free to your door from sales-tax-free Oregon.
Click to learn more about The Garden Loft chicken coop plans and hardware kit.
Tags: Chicken Coop Kits, The Garden Loft
Posted in Chicken Coop Plans, Coop Construction | 2 Comments »