DIY Backyard Chicken Coop | How to Build - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2019
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I happened on this site by accident and cannot tell you how happy I did. What an amazing and entertain ing young lady.Just watching her videos makes me feel good about young people.
Super talented and well spoken. I will not miss any of her videos now.
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
Thank you, April, so happy to have had your help building our first coop - which turned out amazing!
Great design. I’ve seen a lot of smaller coops but the pass through sweep out is extra good. This woman is a great builder. What a lady!
I built this 2 years ago and we are quite happy with it. Thank you April! It has held up strong for the chickens, ducks, and goose. We get a fair amount of rain and a few good snows in Missouri. If you have any questions on the build, I will be glad to help in any way. A few modifications I made are below, although I'm sure there are more than I can remember.
- My wife had me double the size before I even had the walls framed, go figure.
- I made every side removable, except for the coop door side. I even made the panels below the nesting boxes removable. This is to assist with easy cleaning and access. I used barrel bolts, one on each corner.
- The roof above the nesting boxes is too short IMO. The water runs right off the roof and lands on the nesting boxes lid. Luckily, water does not go inside coop, but I have green algae marks all over the top of the nesting boxes. I suggest extending that roof portion out over the nesting boxes so water runs onto the ground, in lieu of the nesting boxes.
- I added windows where needed, pretty much every side has a window
- I dropped the coop door to floor level, was more ideal. Also think about if you're going to add an electric door (solar is possible), might want to make it to size.
- I tiled the bottom floor and bottom section of vertical 2x4. This was such a clutch decision that I do not regret. Bedding and poop slides right off the tile, opposed to getting stuck to wood. I glued them down and pushed them together, then sealed seams with water proof caulk. If you need to get a hose in there you can feel good about not soaking the wood floor. Facebook market place has cheap tiles.
- I felt there was so much extra room vertically in there, so I made levels for the chickens to walk up a ramp and can roost on them. There is a mini 2nd and 3rd floor, I used scrap wood. They love it and use it.
- I added gutters to the back side (non nesting box side) and the water runs into my rain barrel, which is then given right back to the chickens. I cut PVC in half and attached using J hooks.
- If you are in a cold climate, maybe think about having the coop walls extended out so the nesting boxes are more insulated and there isn't open air below them. A lot of our eggs are freezing in these cold temps, even though we have proper bedding.
Great job April, really like the way you're able to build in the shop or make a pre-fab kit then go set it up. You've come a long ways and like your folks and hubby we are proud of you too. Thanks for sharing.
April, I have researched A LOT of coop designs, and this is by far the best I have seen! I love how everything is at standing height (for my bad back) and the clean out for the bedding looks SO much easier to use than the sliding tray that I have (gets clogged with litter almost immediately). Way to go - I am definitely buying your plans for Coop 2.0!
I want to be like you when I grow up. I could do my own honey do list 😋 you really are inspirational. It looks so easy, but it goes to show the benefit of having the right tools, the right space, the right plan and lack of fear. Your experience shows, and gives me hope that eventually, I can do my own projects. I won't be climbing on top of my coops though lol. Too dang old! Thank you April!
My wife’s been asking for me to build a coop! Thanks for the excellent video and plans!! Now...just to find time to build it!
I always enjoy watching April's videos, she is such a hard-working very skilful individual and always does a really professional job no matter what. An inspiration to us all!
Λατρεύω να βλέπω τις δημιουργίες σου τον τρόπο που σκέφτεσαι και οργανώνεις την κάθε μια εργασία σου πολύ καλός ο εξοπλισμός σου όπως και το υπέροχο μαγαζί σου τελικά αν αγαπάς αυτό που θέλεις να κάνεις θα το κάνεις καλά πολλά μπράβο συνέχισε δυνατά να χαιρόμαστε οι θαυμαστές σου φιλιά από Ελλάδα.
I'm blown away by your awesomeness, they don't make them like you.
What a beautiful chicken coop! Great project. I'm wanting chickens now!
I bought April’s plans and just got done building the coop. If anyone is interested it took me about 3 full weekends to build. I’m handy but definitely don’t do carpentry full time so you might can do it faster. I have a table saw but everything else was hand tools (I need a nail gun lol). Counting up my receipts I spent around $580 on materials. Between watching her video lots of times and the plans it was pretty straight forward build. Now I just need to get chickens!
What size nails did you use
question.. plywood.. is it 51 and 1/8th? or 56 and 1/8th? on cut list.. it says 51.. on plans.. it says 56... thanks
Love the coop! Built my own a year ago and I would recommend adding a few more "steps" to the ramp to give the chickens more places to grip as they're climbing up and down. The angle may also be a little steep too. Looks great otherwise.
GREAT job as usual and April really likes to stay on top of her projects, literally on top. Even with well practiced dance moves.
: ) Ha, yeah sometimes it's just quicker to climb up and get the job done.
LOVE IT!! Great Job!!! It really is nice to see a woman be this creative in a DIY video!!!
You are so much fun to watch build stuff, you remind me 110% like my wife but you have cooler toys! Please keep up the super work and sharing with us!
April, you're truly my favorite past time. Thank you for sharing this vids. Happy New Year.
I am so impressed. Beyond sharing the same love of Milwaukee, you have amazing shop. Online presence awesome, great job catching the right camera angle and just a pleasure to watch. Please keep them up and congrats on sponsors!
Awesome job April! Looking forward to part two! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
This one is going to come in handy in the near future. Because I love chickens, the pets that poop breakfast.
: ) hahaha yes, the pets that poop breakfast.
@@AprilWilkerson Great video. I shared it to my groups and page.
Awesome coop! You can also use planer/jointer shavings as straw for the chicken's beding.
It's been remarkable to see your progress on TH-cam. This was the girl I watched making a DIY key fob some years ago in her shared workspace/garage and answered to my reply about being inspired to make one. Nice job April. #longtimefollower
Awesome! Glad you're still along for the ride and enjoying the Content. Cheers!
@@AprilWilkerson， I made this project last month. How can I find the chicken sign you made? Can you have me a link. I can't find on your website. Thanks.
This helps me in getting hints on making our chicken coop again, the snow blizzard ruined it earlier this year and I'm now looking for decent tutorials on how to do it myself. Thank you.
I am just completing the building of this coop from the plans I purchased from you. The design and instructions are great for my needs and easy to follow.
I love everything about this coop except for the roof. I'm in Hawai'i and we get so much rain so I'll need bigger eaves. Thank you for this video - was super helpful and enjoyable to watch. You explain the building process very well!
Hi. We built this coop and run 6 months ago in June, 2020 and this is our unsolicited 6 month update. We are in upstate New York, and average around 96" of snow a year. It's not "freeze you standing up" Minnesota or Alaska cold every day, but windy and snowy it is. We love the design and the plans are fairly easy to follow. Pros: large coop and run (from subsequent video), required only common hand tools and basic power tools to build. Amateur levels of skill, we really didn't struggle figuring it out. It came together fairly quickly. We bought that little pocket-hole jig, some more clamps because you can never have too many clamps and a fresh blade for the table saw and chop saw, that's really all the tools we bought and I've used them all since on other projects. The plans were absolutely well worth the modest cost. That said, I would consider some changes and you can see the features I would change in the video. 03 seconds into the video, pause it and behind April's right elbow is the trim on the nesting box lid. This collects water runoff from the roof and can feed that run off into the nesting boxes. We caulked the crap out of the edge (all joints, went through two tubes of caulk over the whole coop) and now the water pools on the lid but doesn't run into the nesting box. I would consider extending that second roof to overhang the nesting box more, just continue it another 8" or so, that would cut down on everything but wind blown rain and snow landing on the box lid. 28 seconds to 30 seconds, April opens the lower side window. The lower runner that side window slides along collects debris (poop and bedding) and makes the window impossible to open or close if clogged. We just shop-vac it out before change of seasons and scrape with a scraper that we store in the coop stuck in one of the cross braces on the opposite wall for scraping poop off of surfaces when we stir the bedding. We're considering how to redesign this slide so that it's inaccessible to the birds from above, like hanging the window from rollers from above with no lower slide slot OR restricting the birds somehow from sitting close to the end wall of the run, it's really not worth spending money to fix. 9:40 April is introducing the second video, note the trim on the left and right corners of the nesting box. It's kind of tapered. That was a pain to get right, once it's right it looks really nice. For the run, we used 2' wide hardware cloth, and changed the design to have the studs 2' on center so we could staple them to the studs. The hardware cloth was the biggest expense of the whole project, more than the lumber cost. Finally, we built frames to protect the under-the-coop area and run from wind and snow out of 2x2s, and covered them with 6mil clear plastic sheeting, three for the under the coop area, one for the back of the run, one for the end, three for the door side, then screwed the frames to the coop and the walls of the run leaving about 6" above the frame of the run for air circulation. It works great, the chickens love the under the coop area if it snows, they don't get frozen or have to tread in snow. They use the under-the-coop area for dust bathing. We use the deep litter method in the coop with about 6" of industrial hemp bedding, scraping the surfaces and stirring every other day or so. We throw hay and straw in the run to keep them clean and rake it out once in a while (toss in garden) to clean it. In the spring, we plan to double the run by creating a mirror image of it and adding it to the other side. If I had to build it again, I would probably extend that roof section and find a way to protect any flat surface in the coop to prevent build up of chicken poop.
About how much did this cost you?
@@celina4243 in June 2020, almost $1500 in total and probably $250 or $300 of it was hardware cloth alone.
Great job on the backyard chicken coop April! Thanks for sharing with us. 👍👌😎JP
Great design and easy to follow guide. Thank you April. This is the perfect size for the chickens my wife and I want to get.
Pleased to say that I'm not disappointed. I am learning. Thank you for sharing.
Looking good so far. The finished product looks great too. I'm sure your chickens will love their house/coop. Great color choice as well.
My family lives north of Austin, where my four year old daughter and I love watching your videos together. She gets so excited any time you mention Texas. This is from her: “Thank you for inventing these videos and I like them. I want to invent some videos for you, but when I’m older. By Olivia 🐙😳🍭🍭🐙”
She likes emojis. Thanks so much for being a positive role model.
Awesome! That's great to hear! Give her a big hug and a High Five from me! Cheers!
I love the double bottom doors for cleaning. Excellent idea.
I love it when a plan comes together . Great job 👍
Great work! Thanks for taking the time to make, film, edit and share
Thank you April l got mine built mainly by listening to you. However l did it with reclaimed lumber, and what l had laying around. No shop, just a drill and a skill saw all done outside with plenty of mosquitoes. It took a few days. Once again thank you.
As always a very well made video. I have learnt soo much from watching your videos from the bed all the way till now. Thank you.
Thank you for posting this! Love your videos. Keep them coming!!!!
A little bit late at this point, but you can also use a sheet of cheap lineol...linoelum...vinyl flooring on the bottom of the coop to both protect the wood since you are doing deep litter, and to also make cleanup a snap when you do go to swap the litter.
I started with one much bigger for my 10 chickens and after the first year built our own. 12’x17’ plus we added a 6’x17’ covered porch the next year. Electricity, running water with sink, screened windows for air circulation, auto poop door, and auto waterer. Run is 25’x40’ with wire 12” deep below ground to keep predators out. This year we added cameras for inside and porch area so I can check on them any time. Love my girls and they are definitely spoiled 😀
Love this, April. You're incredible. Just bought the plans for the compact coop and I'm going to build it with my 18 year old daughter and 16 year old son. Thanks from Galt, CA.
Wonderful! Enjoy the build and the experience. Thanks for watching.
Lucky chickens. They're gonna have a nice lil home. Thanks for sharing April.
We started today this project! Thanks for providing plans on your website and having your video instructions really help.
What is the approximate cost of the build? Thank you for sharing this!
I have literally been STRESSING for MONTHS on which coop to build and how. It all has been so overwhelming with all the options and I couldn't find plans for what we wanted... Thank you for what you do!!! This simplified everything into bite sized pieces. Now I feel ready to build!
Awesome! That's great to hear. Enjoy the Build!
@@AprilWilkerson I ordered my plans but still haven't received the PDF. I emailed earlier today but I know you must receive hundreds a day! Hoping I can reach out here and get it resolved. Thank you!
A wonderful and outstanding work worthy of five stars
i have been thinking of having some chickens lately and this is perfect! keep up the good work!
I bought one of those Triton palm belt sanders when I met you at Makers Central.... Brilliant tool 👍♿
I’m building this after holding off due to COVID lumber prices. Kid you not it’s 40% cheaper thanks to waiting. We get a lot of wind so the base 4x4 legs are same size(above ground)but the extra length gets it 18” underground.
I used this design to build my coop. Made a few changes because of different end goal. I decided to make the nesting boxes double row. The nesting box is fixed to righthand rear 4x4 post using gate hinges. It swings out which allows me to clean out the coop
Great coop. Thanks for making it look easy.
Great job April. Live your passion to work with wood. I love wood as well.
Nice job! Looking forward to the finish!
Your light hand is already wonderful🤙🏻😍
excellent idea
Thank you
Oh yeah - and it looks REALLY NICE!
Congratulations on the 1 million subscribers! Way to go!
Nice timing April, Rachel and I were just talking about getting chickens... lol . Great project
Awesome, I needed to make one of these as well! Thanks for the motivation.
Beautiful work! You are so talented...
April, I admire you!!
Very nice video April. I'm in the process of building my chicken run and would love the plans for this coop. Very nice work
Love it! Thank you April
I just got through building my coop and run. Wish I'd seen your video before starting. Mines a little bigger but I like yours better. Good job!
Good job April. Wish all the best
Great job. Fresh eggs are the best!
You certainly built a nice coop for the chickens. I'm sure they just can't wait to move in. 🐔
: ) I'm certainly looking forward to it.
The dance on the coop floor was the best part🐓😄
Great Job!!! I am going to try to make one! Thank you for creating this video. I have watched the Carolina Coop video, but can't afford one of those right now. Also I can't build something too big myself, but this size I can do. I appreciate you!
Coop looks great so far.
Loooooove your shop and air conditioning! Love your dance moves lol
I will try to build this one this summer here in sweden. Really like your vids!!
I really like your videos. Great job!
the work and thought you put in your videos really shows! love your channel. you got some HELLA loud crickets btw :D
: ) Ha they are actually Cicadas you're hearing. A much much larger version of a cricket.
I love love love your shop!!!
April, be sure to stake the coup down with a steel stake at each corner , wind will blow the coup down very easy and brake your eggs, there goes your breakfast.
I never felt so useless until I saw this video and this shop, wow! 😮
Lol yes so true
The details are excellent
Wow What a lady she is .. Absolutely brilliant :)
We build this coop and improvised a guillotine door for the birds. I installed a pulley at the top above the door so that a cable can pull horizontally along the roof inside to open the door. I got a 12 inch 12v linear actuator from amazon, a 120v photo cell controller, a 12v power supply and a 120v HY-2 60 minute delay relay. The photo cell turns on at dark, the H3Y-2 delay relay waits up to 60 minutes after dark to finally activate. Since the relay is DPDT, it’s easy to wire the contacts up to reverse polarity to the linear actuator. When the photocell and relay are ON, the linear actuator lowers the door (down). The door is on a 1/8” cable so it just drops. If a bird gets caught under it, no problem- it’s only the weight of the door panel. When dawn comes, the photocell shuts off and the linear actuator pulls the door up.
Beautiful!
You go girl! I'm venturing into raising raising chickens. These ideas are awesome. Thanks!
You are so welcome! Glad you found it useful.
Great work, as always!! I enjoy your content! 👍🏻
: ) Thank you, that's great to hear
Wow, you are inspiring!
This is awesome, wife and I were just talking about making a down scaled version of your mega chicken coup and this will be perfect. Would love seeing you plod around the shop in dry wall stilts on big projects :) Nick from Aus
Looks great!
Love, love, love!!
Very solid, amazing
انت وأنعم يا أبريل.
سلمت يداك مبدعة .
Steak and Eggs every morning! Right April??? This looks like a fun build, and it is a fun video to watch. Awesome Video!
Really need the plans for your chicken coop build, ASAP! Thanks
Thanks for the cute little dance jig, made me smile :)
Me too lol such a badass!🐓bet her chickens did the same lil cha cha!
Thanks again for sharing your great video
Great video
Small but well done, thanks for sharing that
Wow fabulous, congratz
Great tutorial!
You do nice work Girl Kudos.
I like your chicken coops .Very cool.
This is a great project
Great job! You are a joy to watch, to meet you would be a dream❤️