No more Chicken Chores! Self Cleaning, Safe Coop with automatic Water Collection
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2020
- Self-Cleaning Chicken Coop?! Yes Please. This video is brought to you by the Real Milk Paint Company bit.ly/2yUwnLu
After 10 years of keeping chickens, I think I finally have a solid handle on exactly what a coop needs to offer to let our chickens be chickens while still being productive, useful members of our farm. They do their best work when they are well protected from predators, when the coop is easy to clean and when the coop is mobile. Mobile coops mean better eggs, healthier birds, and healthier soil. We save a ton of money on chicken feed because the chickens are busy eating grass, bugs and weeds and turning them into super healthy, rich eggs. Their eggs (and meat, if you're into that sort of thing) are far more flavorful and nutritious, and the mobile coop alleviates "farm smells" and makes for one happy farmer. I set to work designing the coop to go with the trailer, and my business partner Josh, knowing my great affinity for miniature things, suggested I build a tiny scaled down version of our existing barn on the trailer, and this tiny barn mobile coop plan hatched from there. Too many chicken puns? Here's one more. The barn has a cupola, so I figured the chicken coop would need a tiny coopola for the top as well.
This a SELF-CLEANING, mobile chicken coop, and a predator-proof mobile coop design. It's super efficient, it keeps my chickens safe, makes egg collection easy, and, bonus, it's a tiny version of my existing barn here on the farm! This chicken fortress keeps pests and predators away, is well ventilated, and, best of all, it can be pulled around the farm with my golf cart!
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I'm Anne of All Trades. In NASHVILLE, I have a woodworking, blacksmithing and fabrication shop, a selection of furry friends, and an organic farm. Whether you've got the knowledge, tools, time or space to do the things you've always wanted to do, everything is "figureoutable." I became "Anne of All Trades" out of necessity. With no background in farming or making things, I wanted to learn to raise my own food, fix things when they break, and build the things I need. 8 years ago I got my first pet, planted my first seed and picked up my first tool. Get a better roadmap of how to grow deep roots and live the life you want subscribing to this channel and look for NEW VIDEOS EVERY WEEK!
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Fascinating build, thanks for sharing! I’m curious how the mesh from the trailer as floor and one wall perform over winter? Does snow or rain ever blow inside during storms?
The best part of having chickens is watching them run. They are nature's true dorks.
You can't discount the power of whimsy ❤
That coop is super fun and looks great matching the big barn. Using a golf cart to haul chickens around in a mobile habitat is the definition of winning!
hahaha anytime I can use my golf cart for something ridiculous is a WIN
A mother and her chickens. Need to say more. A happy chicken is a well happy chicken.
Thank you it's so nice to see another woman builder. Love your mini barn
I love! love! this mobile barn I had the exact idea except I didn’t think about the water catchment you added Awsome!! New to homesteading in Tennesee now I have a visual thanks
You’re so talented!!! Love this! ❤
Your talents never ends. It is so cool 😎 to see a mini version of your barn in the field. Adding the self watering system was brilliant 👍🏼
Thank you!
Yeah! Real Milk Paint is awesome! I’ve known them personally for a number of years now! Excellent company and excellent people!
I love them!
I feel the exact same way about chickens! I love the tiny house movement so a tiny barn is right up my alley. Looks like I know what my next big project will be. Thanks for the inspiration!
Ha! Glad I'm not alone. I love tiny houses too, did you see the one I built for my mom in Seattle?
Awesome build and the fact that you include a bloopers reel at the end is great. Use to be a thing that TV shows would even do but now no one does it. Thank you for showing that we are all humans.
Bloopers are the best part!
Oh Anne, you guys make my day shinier with ever single video you put out! 🥰🤙
So glad to hear it! Thank you!
Hahaha, I love the bloopers of this one!
Also this tiny barn mobile chicken coop is so cute! I'll be starting my homesteading journey in the next few months and I'm totally going to buy the instructions for this whenever I get to build my own coop!! So cool!!! :)
Heck yeah! Hit me with any homesteading questions you come up with as you get started, the more specific the better. Will help me make more helpful videos for other folks trying to do the same.
I love the chicken coop and I love the matching barn quilt 😍
Thank you!
You may not like chickens but they certainly like you! They follow you like the mama hen!
HAha I’m the one with the food. And when they’re doing their job, I love them!
Anne,you never cease to amaze me! 👍
Thank you!!
The black color reminds me of the old chew tobacco advertisement barns. Really like the coop.
Cheers from Arkansas!!!
Thank you so much!
Ann what a great idea using that trailer, completely awesome idea
Thank you! As soon as I saw the trailer I knew what I had to do ;)
What an incredible looking chicken coop! And even better that it is a tiny version of your barn!
It’s pretty silly!
Such an awesome coop! 😍👌🏻🐔🐓🐔 Great job Anne! 👍🏻👊🏻
Thanks Fred!
I absolutely loved this video! You are such a powerhouse and an inspiration. Thank you for sharing. I know you said youre not a fan of chickens, but this video made me want chickens even more!
Thank you so much!!
Amazing! How inspiring you are! We actually stayed across the road from you just last week. We admired your farm and now can learn from your talent. My husband and I are moving soon to East Tennessee and look forward to learning from you and making our property sustainable and productive.
oh yay! Welcome to TN! Please do reach out if and when you've got any questions I can help with as you're getting started!!
milk paint is COOL!!! thanks for telling us about it.
Automated like am installing a TV and radio for the chickens to relax after a long day out n about the fields mmmm
hahaha what!?
It's missing the little chicken hot tub spa.
yeah, the chikkens would like that!!! HAAA
Looks great. I think every video I watch of yours makes me wanna move to the countryside even more.
Thank you! That’s definitely the goal :)
Awesome to see it turn into the official tiny barn now! Can’t wait to have land of our own down here in TX, might have to try this! The kids want chickens so bad! 💪🏻
Thanks so much! Chickens are great projects for kids, I remember my first birds well.
Awesome build
Great content
Love all the hard work. Going to build one
"What do we have, and how can we make it work!" Words I live by every day 👍
Hear hear!
Truth. I have an assortment of piles of stuff, just too good to throw away, besides, I might need it some day. I try to keep my piles neat... Hah!
@@Kris_at_WhiteOaksFarm "try" to keep the piles neat - so difficult to accomplish!
@@AnneofAllTrades It gratifies my inner OCD that you spelled that correctly.
Our motto around here is “what we can, when we can, with what we’ve got.” 👍
I've never seen milk paint before Thank you for the awesome video Your coop looks great I
Love How it is mobile
Thanks. Watch the whole video, it’s literally built on a trailer ;)
thank you Anne . and they are tasty fried as in southern fried chicken yup
Marina. I am so happy for you and your family. I pray that the Lord just allows you to keep going with this job of yours and try to get it paid off as soon as you can even before remodeling so that it is yours and when you get chickens, get a chicken coop that can be moved so that your chickens won’t tear up all the grass. God is so good all the time I’m so glad that he is chosen to bless you in this way.
Great video and great idea! Efficient and clear explaining, with good tips of how to do things mixed in. You've earned a new subscriber, keep up the good work!
Awesome, thank you! Welcome aboard!
Love it! We've built many different coops over the years as well, you always learn something new every time about what works for you and what doesn't. A tip for painting: use a light weight outdoor patio end table or the like as a stand for your paint tray to sit on while painting, so much easier than holding the tray/bucket or stooping over when it's on the ground.
haha that's a great idea!
I've said it before here and via Twitter, and I will say it again, this really is genius. To be able to move the coop around the farm to let manure drop through the base rather than have one place fill up an dneed to be emptied over and over. Ots amazing.
Thank you! The grass they’ve been on has really improved as well, and there are far fewer flies and parasites as well, so I’m glad it’s doing what it needs to do. And the eggs are far better for it!
@@AnneofAllTrades This is so great, how do you protect them from the raptors in mid-Winter? I find if the chickens don't have a run my flock will thin every day from sky predators.
@@TheNexusInfo we haven't lost a bird yet. There are hawks EVERYWHERE. We have guard donkeys and LGD's, but the coop provides them plenty of safe shelter from the hawks and the roosters alert them of coming trouble, and from what I can tell, there are plenty of wild creatures around for the hawks and eagles to prey on, so fingers crossed this system will continue to work well for us.
@@AnneofAllTrades Fantastic! Ya, our goats are far away from the chickens so that may factor in their defense scheme. Our wild creatures (rabbits and small mammals) run out around mid-January and the eagles and hawks start coming into our area for the chickens. I found getting big beefy chicken breeds helps with deterring raptor interference.
Awwhh, chickens are good people!
Bestnest box. They're great.
Glad I found your channel!!! Ironically, I saw you originally almost 2 years ago on April's channel. I used to always watch TH-cam on my TV and it isn't an option to follow a link to a channel and subscribe on a TV. You are much closer to April now, hope y"all get together for more projects. Both of you are extremely talented, thanks for sharing your talents with us.
Check out this fun video ;) th-cam.com/video/qD5T0Y-iOrg/w-d-xo.html
@@AnneofAllTrades Thanks, I did not recall that you were in April's video of this experience (will have to go back and watch again), looks like it was a good time for all. I first saw you and her building the tiny home in Seattle area, I think it was for your mother or one of y'alls friends mother, memory is a little fuzzy though, it was a while back. Again, thanks for sharing your talents with us, it is giving me something much better than regular TV to watch.
You did it your way which makes you Happy is all that matters. A roast chicken now and then is nice too. Happy free chickens make everything better.. Stay Safe & well.
hahaha boy isn't that the truth
great looking and useful coop
Thank you!
Innovative minds have always been the blessing and gift of all mankind. You have a superlative innovative mind....
Thank you for that encouragement! Needs are often the spark of good Invention.
@@AnneofAllTrades You are more than welcome Anne. Your videos are entertaining, instructive and they are replete with one of the things I admire and enjoy watching... people who follow their dreams to fruition. I wish you well on your journey in all endeavors. Please keep sharing your wonderful stories.
Totally love this project. Start to finish 👍🏻💕 build on sister.
Thanks so much!!
What a great video! It is so cool that you made it look like your barn, the water container is a perfect idea. Your friends from The Great Smoky Mountains.
Thanks so much! 😊
Thank you looks amazing!
Just Awesome!
Glad you like it!
Very cool Anne. Thanks for sharing your videos. Take care
Thank you for watching! It means the world you'd take time out of your week to share some time with us.
@@AnneofAllTrades Hi Anne, I enjoy these and am always looking forward to seeing the next one. You are a true inspiration in all you do. Best wishes
Great project!
AWESOME!
Inspirational Anne. Please share any videos of the upkeep. I know the manure will eventually rust out the wire floor, at least I’ve seen what quail manure does. If you end up redoing the floor we’d definitely like to see whatever fix or solutions you come up with. Perhaps vinyl coating on the wire.
Great point- so far so good, but I’d definitely plan on doing a really good power wash and re-coat of paint every other year or so. I’ll look into some non porous, rugged coatings that are widely available
What an incredible human ;)
Your barn is super cute! Love it! That reminds me that I need to paint mine too. 😂
haha a farmer's work is never done ;)
What a great idea and awesome execution!
Thank you very much!
Your design is going to provide a lot of much needed summertime ventilation, I still like it. I actually like it better than my stationary coop. I've got mine set up so you can back a garden trailer underneath slide the floor open and dump the wood chips and chicken byproducts in it for the garden compost pile. Just pull the slider and sweep everything into the middle and dispose. But yours is pretty much self cleaning and ingenious. Knowing Nashville area as I do I know the winters there are pretty mild/shorts or tee shirt weather for me so your chickens should do superbly.
Sounds like yours is a pretty cool design too! Wood chips make the best litter in my opinion.
@@AnneofAllTrades I like yours much better, but I have large birds of prey in my area so I've gotta keep my run covered. I couldn't do the mobile coop.
You are so encouraging thank you for being an inspiration
I'm so glad! Thanks for those kind words!
Very nice project, your mini barn is so cute 🐔🐓... And usefull ,Great job Anne 👍🇫🇷👏Hope that with all this comfort your "feathers tenant"🐔 pay their daily rent🥚😁
Thank you!
Nice build. Stay safe, Joe Z
Thanks, will do!
Very nice chicken coop
Thank you so much!
You did an awesome job 👍
Thank you!
You truly are an amazing young lady. And beautiful.
This is really cool. I'm just starting to learn about keeping chickens and cleaning up the coop is my biggest barrier. That said, I thought chicken poop was toxic and shouldn't be used in gardens or where kids play.
Man, if I had a farm that would be the hot ticket. Pretty cool idea!
Thank you!
My first carpentry job was on a 110 year old victorian. It was a historical restoration owned by a Professor of architecture at Georgia Tech. Where the original milk paint did not fail, it was really difficult to sand it fair to the heart pine it sat on. Should I ever need to paint my own structure I now know where to go for a coating that will last until I'm pushing up daisies. I'd be willing to bet that stuff will stop small caliber bullets! (That would be a wierd collab: Anne of All Trades meets Demolition Ranch.)
Haha I’d be down!
That is a very nice coop ma'am. Congrats on a great job. It looks stunning :) Jesus bless.
A happy 🐔 is a happy 🥚 😃
Hi anne, profesional painter here, my advise is use the roll the other way for cover way more area quicker than on the size like you do. also start from top corner to botom corner and hedge , roll parallele to the hedge, top to botom and repeat start from one size until you at the other size. start by the midle and zig zac is a waste of time and paint. best to do paralele line the size of the roll. looks good anyway at the end but if you wana win some time :)
Thanks for the tip!
It’s gorgeous but all I gotta say is: how do you not like chickens?!!!! They’re the best😹🐓🐓🐓❤
Hi Anne I just subscribe to your wonderful channel and I'm sure am gonna see each and every video on your library God bless you always
Thanks so much! Welcome aboard!
@@AnneofAllTrades you and April Wilkerson are one of a kind compare to nowadays girls both of you so cool and amazing God bless you always
Just found you- you are so cool!
Cute coop but as a lifelong resident of southeastern USA, black is the last color I would paint any building. Not sure if you know about Joel Salatin, but if you haven't heard of him he and another person just wrote and published a book about farm structures. I think you would also find his farm management practice of animal grazing rotation and timing pretty interesting.
Howdy! After moving to a property with a black barn, I actually did a lot of research about heat capturing and it turns out the common belief about black buildings and heat is actually a bit of a wive’s tale. I’m a big fan of Joel Salatin, Richard Perkins, Alan Savory, Mark Shepard, Greg Judy, and many others, who teach about rotational grazing and sound farm management principles. You might find this video interesting as well ;) th-cam.com/video/9WEHenvOWy4/w-d-xo.html
Amazing chicken coup
Thank you!
This is awesome! You are my soul person 😂
haha thank you!
Great stuff
Thank you!
I LOVE IT!!!! Now you Know you need to dress up your chickens like Tiny Farmers.
Hahaha I don’t know any farmers that have time to dress up their chickens.
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Looks great Anne 👌🤩,the question is when new shop is complete ,will you also build a tiny shop 😁...for the kids 🐐
Thank you! And Hahahaha I probably have to
@@AnneofAllTrades 😁😁🙌
omg this is the best thing ever indeed! O_O new sub! wow i want to live in a farm in the future too!
So glad you liked it! It’s such a fun little project
Very nice job!
I would paint the barrel black to prevent algae from getting light.
Where did you get the barrel top? That looks real useful!
I made it! Interesting idea about painting the barrel- it’s solid so no light gets in.
Chickens say "Road Trip".
I'd love to build this but $800 for a trailer is a bit much. I'm definitely saving these videos though because this is amazing
Get yourself a used trailer if you can, I often see these exact models pop up on marketplace for $100-200.
I would make some type of shade attachment to hook to the water tank
Anne keep killing it make on my friend
Thank you!
Anne of All Trades ur very welcome
But you forgot to paint the chook coop barn roof the same colour as your barn roof... then only then will it be identical ;-)
Still loving your vids.... but need the singing at the beginning... :-)
We will be replacing the barn roof soon with the same roofing material ;)
What kind of fencing/netting are you using for them? I’ve been trying to find something for my own chickens that’s easily movable, what you have looks like it would work great, I’m just wondering what it is
“Chickens cover your ears!” I wouldn’t have guessed in a million years Anne, YOU of all people didn’t like chickens!
I love all animals when they are well contained and given the correct jobs, chickens, like so many other animals, can become major pests if not properly contained. A farmer I love says a good farmer helps make the pig ness of pigs and the chicken ness of chickens really shine. This mobile coop and fencing helps the chickens and all their pesky habits get put to good use around the farm so they help the greater good. I quite enjoy my chickens now that they aren’t reeking havoc in the barn and getting in the garden, we just had to get them to the right spot.
Anne of All Trades it’s like that time my goats ate the paint off the house. 😂 love the coup!
Love this coop! One question... While i realize it matches your barn, won't black on the outside make it especially hot inside on a summer day in Tennessee?
oh that's for the chickens that lay hard boiled eggs.
While that seems to be a common question, the black color doesn’t actually affect the temperature at all.
Haha
Is there a way to paint the pipe and barrel black? It would look so lovely. Yes, I know you have other work to do, but it would be nice.
👍👍👍👍super cool
Thanks Gib!
things don't always have to be boring. :)
isn't that the truth!
well, i built the neighborhood stray cat a winter house out of a cooler, 2 cat flap doors and a pet heater. other attempts at building cat houses for previous cats ended up as miniature dog houses all over the neighborhood! had one person give me dimensions to fit his pup in case of another failed attempt, so i just built it for him.
Love that you’re providing those animals good shelter!
Curious does the water tank have a overflow to control the amount of water stored. 55 gallons will be around 550 lbs of weight that will mostly be on the tongue on the trailer.
Sure does! It stops it at 40 gallons. Still a lot of weight, but the trailer is rated for significantly more
The base what did you use
I just fell in love.... Why can't I find a woman as flavorful as this one here in Texas? Sigh...
Super biiiiggg fan! Hey so what brand of electric r u using , btw? Please advise. Thx
There's a link to it in the description ;)
How has the milk paint held up? Is it easy to touch up once you have used the oil?
Four years later, though I absolutely love Milk Paint and still use it for indoor applications constantly, I realize it probably would have been better maintenance-wise to use latex paint for this particular application, not necessarily because it *couldn’t* hold up, but because I wasn’t consistent enough with the maintenance. And I’m honestly not sure if that is even the actual issue, or if using plywood instead of t-111 siding in an extremely humid climate like this one was the real issue.
It’s funny that the barn sign has a chicken on it and the chicken barn sign has an aoat logo.
Very intentional ;)
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Black is going to heat that coop up in the summer
Will the water line and drinking bucket freeze in winter where you are. What will you do in that situation?
It might, possibly two or three times a year, in which case I'd just bring out buckets to fill the waterers.
Great Job!! What was total cost of build? Any desire to add solar panel to power fence or grain bin to supplement feeding?
I don't have the total handy, though you'd definitely save a pretty penny starting with a used trailer, I've often seen them on facebook marketplace and craigslist since moving south. I've got a solar charger on the fence and keep the grain in the barn so as to keep predators and pests away- I feed them a measured amount when I let them out in the morning and then they forage the rest of the day.
@@AnneofAllTrades Awesome!! Thanks for the response! Can't wait to snag up the plans and make ours next spring!
I’m building a mobile coop right now also. Did you insulated the inside? I’m in Wisconsin so I’m not sure if my chickens will get cool in the winters here. How is yours doing in the winter with the bottom open like it is?
We live in a much more temperate climate than Wisconsin, so we haven’t had any issues, but an easy fix would be the foam insulation boards they sell at home centers
@@AnneofAllTrades awesome, thanks I may add those in mine! Love your channel 👍🏻
What size is the trailer?