{"id":1120,"date":"2011-04-19T14:19:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegardencoop.com\/chicken-coop-new-york\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T21:27:15","slug":"chicken-coop-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegardencoop.com\/es\/blog\/chicken-coop-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie and Dave's Garden Coop (Pleasantville, Nueva York)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Julie<\/a><\/p>\n

Julie and Dave have a spacious yard in upstate New York and wanted to build their Garden Coop a little larger than what’s outlined in the plan. They made their coop a few feet wider by increasing the width of the three sections by a foot each. They added a couple feet in depth as well. And they moved the full-length people door from the front to the side of the coop. It came out great.<\/p>\n

“Thank you so much for the excellent plans for The Garden Coop<\/a>,” Julie wrote to us. “The girls have been outside full time for about a week now and they love having all that space!”<\/p>\n

Making your Garden Coop larger<\/h2>\n

The Garden Coop is sized right for up to 8 hens. But if you have extra space in your yard or are planning to keep a larger flock, it’s possible to build the design larger. I usually first advise making it wider<\/strong> by simply adding a “section” to the right of the design, bringing it from three sections to four. Or you could do what Julie and Dave did and widen each section by a little bit.<\/p>\n

If you want to increase the depth<\/strong> of the coop, there are a few more things to consider and possibly alter:<\/p>\n