DIY Chicken Coop Tour, Carolina Coops Inspired (plans available)
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Enjoy a quick tour of the new chicken coop we just finished building in our backyard. We built it for around $500 using used materials, cull lumber, some new lumber, and used hardware cloth. @Carolina Coops, thank you for the inspiration! Plans are available on Patreon: / thequarteracrehomestead
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Love your chicken coop tour!😊👍Beautiful family helping out with a great fun project. Thank you for sharing. It brought me sweet memories when I was a kid. Well, I'm still a kid at ❤. 😃👍
Thank you!
Ha ha ha I love it ( the hinge lock was brilliant)
Great job on the coop! Well thought out 👍🏼😊
Thank You for sharing your work and your fun family 😁
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!
"I don't know about you guys but I have a lot of that kind of thing."
We paused the video & are both sitting here cracking up. Quite true.
:-)
Awesome coop! Beautiful family!
You are so kind, thank you!
Well done! I like the extra opening in the door-you can open the top and throw in kitchen scraps without the chickens getting out.
Thank you!
Racoon door safety switch is brilliant!! Well done!
Really love this and all the special features you added!
Very clever hinge mechanism on the hen house door 🚪!
You built a great coop! Bravo! 😁🎉🐣
Thank you! I basically got all my ideas from other UA-cam videos. :-)
Ty for giving them credit for the inspiration.....that is a beautiful coop
Thank you!
Outstanding! This is exactly what I am thinking about building in the next few weeks. I'm thinking of 8' x 12' but I may follow your lead and go with 6'.
Thanks,
They're a lot of fun to build!
Gorgeous and ingenious coop you have there. I hope to make mine nearly as nice.
Thank you!
Very nice coop!! Really like the set up!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
Bro! Fantastic job on that coop. I’ve also started a build on a coop like this and I really like how you did a few of these things, I’ll be taking some ideas from yours and applying them to mine. Glad I found this video.
Great!
You did a great job on your build 👍
Thanks 👍
Great job!
Nicely done ✅
great job i like the hinge lock on coop house door never seen that before!
Thanks! The hinge lock works great!
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The Quarter Acre Homestead what kind of hinge did you use on the coop door? Most I’ve found don’t stay in that 90 degree angle
Wow great job - I'd love a Carolina 'American' Coop but just can't afford $4000 on one! This is a great version!
Thank you!
I love those Carolina Coops. My brother is a carpenter, and if he weren’t so busy making a living building things I’d have him build one for me.
Does Carolina coops really cost $4000?
You did an amazing job
Thank you!
Thanks for the tour, I just moved onto a new property and received chicks as a house warming gift!
Nice!
Awesome build! Love Carolina Coops. I wish I had the room for that. Mine needs to be smaller. I wish you had a 'build' video! I'd like to see your assembly process... Liked the video quality.
Thanks! We will be posting build videos soon, just describing verbally how we built it. Should have videoed while we built, but it's sometimes hard to think about building and think about videoing at the same time. :-) Maybe we'll build another and video the process.
@@TheQuarterAcreHomestead I should have done the same.. Just completed a 4 x 10 like the California coop (small yard lol).. I took stills along the way but didn't have a video camera beside the phone.. Thanks for the motivation!
@@kenjepsen4579 Nice! Would love to see pics. Share a link if you can.
1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
Nice work!
Thanks!
Very impressive!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Love your coop
Thank you!
Coop looks real good man
Thank you!
I looked at your coop and immediately thought, hmmmm...that kinda looks like a Carolina Coop! I am in the middle of building mine right now and have also "stolen" all of my ideas from looking at Carolina coops. I have a 4'x6' coop and a 6'x12 foot run. It's been a lot of work (since I waited til the last second and now have chickens that need their coop and now I'm rushing) but it's so fun too! Your coop looks AWESOME! Great job!
Thank you! It was a fun project.
wow, really nice job on a lovely coop! Lots of great features. I think maybe the chicks' legs are too short to manage the rungs yet on the ladder. Maybe once full grown they'll manage that stride. I also wonder if they'd prefer a flat (no air spaces) plank, with foot rungs spaced at a 'chicken stride' distances. Best of luck!
Thank you! 😊
crazy how you managed to build a coop that size for that cheap.. my brother and I have been making a similar $400 price range coop not nearly as big as that, will hold up to 4 chickens.
Yeah, we had a lot of used materials, leftover screws, leftover hardware cloth, and got quite a bit in the cull bin at Home Depot for 70% off. Without that, probably would have been close to twice that. I described more of how we built it cheaply in this video: ua-cam.com/video/iH-XIMeiGy8/v-deo.html
Great job. I was thinking about sliding plexi windows. Guess they’ll work.
They work great!
Great job. It looks really nice and sturdy. I made my coop 5x6 with a 6ft highth in the middle and have 18 chickees in there. They huddle together. Only two months old so I'm not sure if they'll be happy in there full grown. I'm thinking of making another coop and getting rid of the roosters. Aren't they fun? I love mine. Enjoy them👌👍
Yes, chickens are fun! And building the coop was fun, too!
Those dam kids they get into everything lol
Very interesting. It seems you did a great Hen House and Chicken Run. Did you have a Blue Print to work from. I enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing! What kinds of Chickens do you have? I got the kinds of Chickens that you have. You have a adorable family! Godspeed!
No, I did not have a blue print - I just watched other videos and copied them.
Pretty cool. Only thing, maybe some vents between house & run & 1 on back door
EXCELLENT JOB
Thank you! Cheers!
@@TheQuarterAcreHomestead YOURE WELCOME :)
@@TheQuarterAcreHomestead YOURE WELCOME, WISH I HAD ONE, BEEN WANTING ONE FOR THE TIMES, BUT HAVE NO ONE TO BUILD IT. LOL LOL IT'S A DREAM ANYWAY LOL THE ONE YOU BUILT IS SO SIMILAR TO THOSE OTHERS, I WANT 16 CHICKENS, 6 FOR LAYERS, 10 FOR MEAT THEN GET MORE LOL :) TC
Great Coop i am looking at building one also, cant afford the carolina stuff but it shouldn't be all that hard to build. got a new sub for sure
Thank you!
1st Build Video now available, if you're interested: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
Glad I saw your video! Thinking about doing the same thing at my house. What kind of joinery did you use for the hen house and the run? Pocket holes?
Yes, pocket holes kind of. I just used a big drill bit to drill most of the way thru the 2x4, then used a long screw driver bit to put the screw into that hole.
1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
Great job, I will definitely sign up for the plans, can I ask are you going to install gutters?
I might install gutters on one side, to direct to an automatic watering system for the chickens.
In the planning stage of building my own coop. Thank you for sharing your coop, gave me some great ideas.
Good Job! I laughed when you said about the kids. Kids get into our stuff don't they? :-)
Yes :-)
Kids are for quality control testing. My ex used to claim I was quality control for all technology in the home for the same reason. If I didn't screw it up nobody else could!
Cool build.... have you built a coop for the kids yet?? If so can we see
Very nice build. Kind of puts mine to shame.
Thank you! Chickens don't mind what their coop looks like. :-)
Could you possibly do a short video about the original chicken door? I didn't understand how the hinged piece works. Otherwise, beautiful coop. 😁🐤🐤🐥🐣
Some hinges don't fully fold back on themselves, so they have an arc of motion that is between 180 and 270 degrees, as opposed to 360 degrees. By surface mounting the hinge so the free bracket can move between the 180º and 270º positions, and putting a wooden stop above the hinge, the coop door can only be open when the hinge is at 180 degrees, so you need to pull the wire to make the hinge flap flush with the door/wall so it can pass under/behind the stopper. If the hinge is at more than 180-190 degrees, it will hit the stopper. Hopefully that makes sense.
Hi! Your coop looks great! We are trying to build ours too like the Carolina Coop. Can I find out how much overhang you have for the roof both on the long and short sides? Thank you!
On the ends I have about 12 - 14" overhang. On the long sides, I think about 10".
@@TheQuarterAcreHomestead Thanks! What about the roof pitch?
I love your chicken coop. Where can I get copy of the building plans
Sketchup and PDF plans available on Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
Do you have the plans on how you build this coop . It’s one of the best one I seen so for.
We will have plans in June. Sing up for a copy on Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
What was your price comparison? We've been looking at buying one vs diy
Your coop looks awesome! Great work! Where are you in WA? We are in the PNW as well. My mind is blown how inexpensively you built this coop... tempted to try this summer and do something similar. Currently we have 5 layers and a much smaller house and run... would love to at least make the run standing height...I’m too old to be hunched over trying to keep things clean etc. One more question...how many hours (appx) did this take to build?
Thank you! We are in SW WA. Where are you? I don't remember how many hours it took to build, but I think it took around a month working on weekends and after work.
@@TheQuarterAcreHomestead Thanks for the reply. Again… love the coop! We live up north of Everett in the Stanwood/Camano Island area…it’s a little more than a hour drive to the Canadian border from our place. 🐓
Hi just rt size for my house. What do you to keep critters out from going under coop
Peter we haven’t had any critters try to dig under yet, but you could staple hardware cloth to the bottom of the walls and bring it out horizontally a few feet underground,
Is there an alternative way to not have the storage option? Just do the regular deep litter coop?
Definitely! Just make the narrow door go all the way across, and leave out the center divider. You'll have to have a pin of some sort to secure one of the doors, and then latch the other one to it. Hope this helps!
Any chance you could write up plans and share them with us? The coop is gorgeous!😁
Also, how high is your coop off the ground?
There is a chance! I'm thinking of doing a video soon explaining the build process.
We will have plans available in June! Sign up for a copy on Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
Our coop is about 21" off the ground. We tried to make it the right size to allow us to scrape droppings into a wheel barrow easily. 1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
Good job . I’m fixing to build my version of the coop. Would like to see pictures of your rafters that is my biggest problem ..
Maybe you could share some how too?
Yes! I'm planning to make several build explanation vides in the next couple of weeks. We will also have Sketchup plans available in June
1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
@Angelia Allen, here is a video where I explain how I did the rafters: ua-cam.com/video/l_dvHL2v0fo/v-deo.html
Beautiful coop!
Can you share your Plans for the coop?
We will have plans in June. Sing up for a copy on Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
Excellent construction skills! The coop looks great. I also copied Carolina Coops build concepts. My regret is I didn't make my coop and run 6 ft. wide, but I also have a 20x20 pen area I'm able to let them out in so it works out, but that was definitely an after thought as I realized a 4x10 run really wasn't going to be big enough for 4 hens. Well, it would be, but I don't think their quality of life would have been as good. I may have missed it in your video, but did you add a predator apron? I did, but it's been completely unnecessary. I kept thinking the chickens would be under regular assault by animals but there hasn't been a single instance in two years. Better safe than sorry though. Again, excellent build!
No, I didn't add a predator apron. I might someday, but not now. We close them in the coop each night, and most predators are out at night around here anyway.
You did a excellent job of building the coop. Do you work in construction?
No, I don't work in construction. I grew up helping my dad on projects and he was a woodshop teacher.
Great job! How long is the total coop and run?
Coop is 4' x 6'. Whole thing is 6' by 16'. We will have plans in June. Sing up for a copy on Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
How big is the hen house and the run? And how many chicken can be put in it
Hen house is 4x6 feet. Run is 6 x 16 feet. We have six chickens, but it could hold up to 12.
How do you keep predators from digging in from under?
You can add a "predator apron" which is just wire stapled to the bottom of the walls and going outward horizontally on the ground.
How did you do the floor for the henhouse?
I just tacked in a piece of linoleum, folding it up the sides about 6-8 inches.
I was looking to do something very similar but I have a Question so I’m hoping you can shed some light. I see you have positioned your 2x4s on end for the perimeter of the structure. How did you secure the 2x4s to each other? Did you use a jig to do diagonal screws or what? Very cool design.. you are awesome
Sebastian Kiely it would be best to use a “pocket screw” jig to do diagonal screws like you mentioned. But I didn’t have the jig. So here is what I did: I would drill about a 1/4 inch hole 2/3s of the way thru the board, then use a really long screw driver bit to put the screw into that hole and into the next board. Does that make sense? I’ll be making a video if explaining some of this in more detail soon. Thank you for the positive comments!
The Quarter Acre Homestead yeah that makes complete sense. We have a jig and I do see this is how Carolina does theirs but I was debating doing a normal wall frame (2x4) on its side for the base and using 2x 2x4s for the structural supports. Do you see any reason other than aesthetics to do it the “Carolina” way? It looks great.. but i feel it might lack the strength of a conventional wall
@@sebastiankiely4534 I can think of two reasons the "Carolina" way might be better. One, it is more surface area for attaching the hardware cloth. Two, by putting the siding inside the framing, the 2x4 looks like trim work when you paint it. Really convenient.
The Quarter Acre Homestead
Yes pls make a video on this part of the coop built. I’m very interested in making this coop. Thanks.
1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
I noticed that most the framing on the Carolina coops are done via pocket screws. Did you go this route too or just toe nailing?
I didn't have a pocket screw jig, so I actually drilled large holes part way through and then put the screws in those holes. If you watch my build videos I show how I did it.
@@TheQuarterAcreHomestead next video in my queue then. Thanks for your response!
Do you have a material list for the coop
No, I do not.
Any chance you have any plans or instructions? I'd love to build one mimicking the carolina coops layout like you. I need some step-by-step help!
I don't have any plans at this point, I'm sorry. Am happy to try to answer specific questions if you have them.
I will have plans out in June! Check out our patreon page to sign up for a copy: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
How do we get the plans for you coop? We’re dying to get started!
Here! www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
Do you have the plans for the coop separately?
Yes! Sketchup and PDF plans available on Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
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Not quite a Carolina coop.but 90% of it for a fifth the price excellent coup
I would like to get the plans how do I do that
Patricia Graves go to www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead and sign up. Thanks!
Did you use treated wood?
Yes, we used treated for the boards that touch the ground, regular lumber for everything else.
Great looking coop and run. What areas of the build did you use spruce vs treated wood. I cannot decide if I want to do all treated or just treated at the bottom where it touches the dirt. Also what was your material cost. Once again, it is a very nice chicken coop and run!!
I only used treated for the boards that touch the ground. Material cost was about $450, but I had hardware cloth already and I got a lot of stuff from the discount bin at Home Depot (roofing, plywood, 2xs). Got mis-tint paint for $5 a gallon. I also used some old 2x6s I had laying around. So if I had to buy everything at regular price it would probably be closer to $800 or so.
Man, it is beautiful by the way what was the total foot print of yours? 6X12 or 6x18?
Mike Young thank you. It is 6x16. Kind of a weird size, but I started out thinking 6 foot sections, and then realized I had two 10 foot pressure treated boards, so 10 plus 6 made 16.
Man I hate to keep bothering you on question. Just wondering what pitch you put on your roof for your coop? I plan on breaking ground this weekend on mine. Thank you for your time.
Hi Mike, sorry for the late response. Our pitch roof is at 17 degrees.
I love Carolina Coops but can't afford them. You did a great job. I'm try to get my coop built. Do you plans?
We will have plans available in June! Sign up for a copy on Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
Link to your DIY Plans doesn't work?
It seems to be working for me. Does this work? www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead
Will we be able to get plans for a one-time fee?
We will have Sketchup plans available in June! Sign up for a copy on Patreon. Once you have your plans, you can cancel: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
1st Build Video now available: ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
Nice build! Although Carolina Coops does say copy their build, they do not say to sell their build for your own profit...Take the high road and don’t sell their plan ideas....
Lol the price of wood went up
Yep, everything is going up!
Can you build me one pretty please?
Maybe - can you pick up from Portland, OR area? I was thinking about building another one and filming the process. But I need someone to buy it from me, haha. :-)
So we are building your coop and some of the measurements are wrong the door for the nest box is mismeasured....its not right..
We have had to do alot of altering because the measurements aren't right in multiple places ...also this is not an easy build, there was no way to get used materials, so I bought all new..I've spent atleast 800 just on the coop alone!! This is a very big project and very expensive building too!
So sorry about the measurement issue. Thanks for letting me know, I'll double check on those and get them corrected!
$450???.....aarrggh - Mine is about the same dimensions but yours is nicer and mine came out to $1500!!! I guess minus the $300 for the solar powered door - Good job man! Jealous...
Thank you! We saved cost a few different ways: ua-cam.com/video/iH-XIMeiGy8/v-deo.html
Rule number one of chickens is DO NOT NAME THEM! We have chickens that we feed organic food but they haven’t laid an egg in 4 years. I let my daughter name them…
Oh man! I think we might take ours to an auction once they stop laying.
Sketchup and PDF plans available on Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/thequarteracrehomestead?
1st Build Video (Coop): ua-cam.com/video/WTxk8mkEMEY/v-deo.html
2nd Build Video (Run): ua-cam.com/video/ZL_aZV_U6Lw/v-deo.html
3rd Build Video (Trusses and Roof): ua-cam.com/video/l_dvHL2v0fo/v-deo.html
Good add of kids and chickens so cute. My daughter is 6 yrs old
Nice build.
Thank you!
I love everything your ideas. Great job
Thanks so much! 😊
Great job!
Thanks!