Large all-weather chicken/duck coop Houses up to 12 chickens
The whole nest box can be taken out to clean
Although the geese don't need nests
they like to make their own on the ground
A full size door for your free range
chickens or geese so they can go in and out during the day.
A nest access door is
included
$999
We use the same model for one of our own
flocks, and they like it very much.
This is also good protection for the chicks or goslings of your free-ranging fowl.
This page was last updated: March 5, 2024
This is a wonderful, portable, predator-proof
hen house for 8 to 10 large, or up to 12 small chickens. About 6 full-grown geese. It's good for 10-12 ducks too!
Our geese and goslings
like this coop a LOT!
We use portable wood posts and welded wire fence to keep our goslings in their yard
Geese don't need nest boxes -
they like to make their own on the ground. And
the house won't need two egg doors, only one.
If you raise chickens, you know how often your chickens go to unwanted places - eat your favourite plants, or get themselves into trouble. And you wouldn't want them to wander into danger!
You should get a "chicken yard" to keep them in an enclosed area where they can still scavenge for bugs in the grass.
It'd be even more convenient if you had a yard that was easily portable!
This page was last updated: March 5, 2024
However, in our own experience, even though we don't use this method on our farm, no predator has been able to get into any of our
many chicken coops - not even a snake. We do have lots of wild critters though, and we recently lost several prized hens when we forgot to close one of the coops for the night.
Most digging predators cannot dig enough in one night
to get under the coop. Just put coops on level ground, and keep an eye out for developing holes. Move the coop if you see a hole beside it.
If you live in fox, or marten country (fast diggers) then you should use precautions like the wire mesh idea, above.
Predators, like foxes and raccoons tend to dig right at the spot
where the coop meets the ground. You can lay galvanized wire mesh
on the ground, along the sides of the coop to keep them out.
We set a heat lamp inside the coop (with the clear plastic boards attached from outside)
when it's as cool as below 20's.
This IS a wonderful backyard chicken coop.
It’s perfect for free range chickens (or ducks).
This coop is shipable - but NOT a "manufactured kit"
with bags of complicated parts, where you are expected
to follow a long set of instructions to assemble the thing
from scratch.
This is a "ready-made coop" that was fully
assembled here in our back yard; we make them
one at a time, especially for your order.
We just removed a few screws for shipping
- It's easy to follow our markings to put it together again.
Note:
"I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:" Isaiah 45:2
shipping fee $292
Get a set of portable fence posts
and add a shade sail
for your coop!
Our ducklings are growing up here in this coop.
We raised the roost bar because they don't need it.
We use a hose to slowly pour water directly into the coop. The coop
can naturally hold the water for about half an hour- just enough for them
to have a good time! It's better this way because any container of
water will soon become stinky mud, anyway.
We usually move coops every few days, since they're easy to move.
