Coop Plans

[Kimon]

Hey all, since this was kinda a poultry question and kinda a homesteading question I placed it here because I thought it might be more visible.

I have some guineas already on our hobby farm and recently got an additional 40 chicks in our brooder. I want to construct a coop for them and let the guineas keep the hoop house for now. I have been looking online for plans andhave't found what I want yet, even purchased a few from Mcmurray. Do you have a favorite plan or a pic of yours you might share?

I have half egg layers and half cornish (little piggies) rocks for meat birds so I need nest boxes aswell as roosts and would like something that was a bit more permenate in nature than an a-frame tracktor. I Also plan on composting the litter but for sanitrary reasons would like to be able to move the coop from place to place. We have plenty of room 10 acres and the chickens will free range most of the day and will be protected by electrified fencing from most preds.

Links, pics, plans all would be appreciated more so here on this thread so others can learn from the info too but you may also email them to me if you wish.

[Beeman]

I can't post a pic but my coop was a kids playhouse that was given to me. It's very simple constuction with landscape timbers as the main framework and the timbers extended down to make it a house on legs. When I moved it I cut the legs shorter and put a trap door in the floor to allow them to have the underneath as a protected outdoor area, I put welded wire fencing around the bottom. It's a peaked roof with 4' walls so I can get inside if I needed to and it's 8'x8' square.
If I was going to make a moveable large coop I would build it on a small trailer and you could move it with a lawn tractor.

[Kimon]

Thanks, would love to see a pic if you ever have time to find one and post it.

Yes moving is not a problem I have an old tracktorand if the coop is on skids or wheels I can tow it around the property.

[cricket]

Have you checked backyardpoultry.com? There are LOTS of ideas on both tractors and coops. I also would cross post this to the poultry forum.

Check with Home Depot or Lowe's and look at the playhouse plans. You can alter those plans to make a bang-up coop with yard.

My "coops" are doghouses... So I can't help you there. Also, I would put the cornishes in a tractor...easier and cleaner and with as much as they poop, free fertilizer. A hoop house is very easy and fast and so are tractors made out of stocker panels. They can usually be moved by one person as they don't have to be moved very far every 2 days or so.