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?
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!
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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
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 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.
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 :)
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.
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 ;) ua-cam.com/video/9WEHenvOWy4/v-deo.html
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! 💪🏻
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.
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.
@@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.
Glad I found your channel!!! Ironically, I saw you originally almost 2 years ago on April's channel. I used to always watch UA-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.
@@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.
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... :-)
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.
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 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!
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.
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.)
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!
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🥚😁
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?
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.
Anne, I'm confused - what is self-cleaning about this coop? I have arthritis but want to keep chickens and am worried that I won't be able, physically, to clean and maintain the coop.
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.
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
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.
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.
you live in tennessee? and your painting it black? yikes! the chickens probaby are going to get even hotter in that things. I did not notice any windows? chickens handle the cold better than hot, my chickens suffer from the coop they are in despite it is open front, side open and very open at top and I use a fan. I love my chickens and yes they do alot keep the bugs donw (my roses actually did very well this year) and fertilizing the yard and the beds, and they make great pets. they like to follow me around sit on my lap and let me pick them up and hold them, pet them. really nice.
Howdy! The black color actually doesn’t affect the temperature at all. The coop is extremely well ventilated due to the open side, the open bottom, and the corrugated roof style and roof design also naturally pulls cool air from below the coop and vents the hot air out the top ;)
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.
There's a ton of airflow actually, the design takes that specifically into account. Also, black paint being a "hotter" color is, surprisingly to some folks, not correct.
Yeah they are everywhere. There are plenty of other wild critters for them to eat so they don’t seem too desperate. I have guardian donkeys and dogs too though, so they’re pretty well covered.
@@AnneofAllTrades The farm I lived at (where the ex lives, we're still friends) we had chickens and they ALWAYS hung around the horses. Symbiotic. Horse could all nap because they knew the chickens would give alarm, and the chickens knew nothing was going to mess with them when the giant 4 legged beasts were about. Twas lovely.
The Coop-Trailer is awesome :) Curious to why your barn is black, and if its tradition with black barns ion the area? Generally if you see a black wooden house (being a old home or barn or granary (stabbur en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B3rreo#/media/File:Bautahaugen_Samlinger,_Bergsrud.jpg) around here its because of tar. Traditionally barns etc are red, and many of them painted with blood (originally).
Thanks! The generally accepted thought process on black barns being hotter is actually not correct. As far as the red barns go, that is one theory, though it’s more likely Farmers added ferrous oxide, otherwise known as rust, to the linseed oil mixture they used to coat the raw wood. Rust was plentiful on farms and is a poison to many fungi, including mold and moss, which were known to grown on barns. These fungi would trap moisture in the wood, increasing decay.
@@AnneofAllTrades Great answer :D I heard similar stories/theories about red paints here too. Easy to make (most places got "iron" somewhere in the dirt) and cheap. Farm Red still is the cheapest "barn paint" you can get and it still keeps the fungi etc in check better than any other paints.
Is there anywhere an explanation video of how it is self cleaning? I'm looking for ideas, but didn't see in this video where it would explain how it works.
The bottom is a grate so the poop just falls right through. 3 years in and I’ve had to scrape off some crusties only 3 times. Took about 10 minutes. Quickest easiest clean I’ve ever had in 10 years of chickens
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
Check out the full build! ua-cam.com/video/eSrZhYmTaLc/v-deo.html
Get the plans at www.anneofalltrades.com/project-plans
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.
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
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.
The black color reminds me of the old chew tobacco advertisement barns. Really like the coop.
Cheers from Arkansas!!!
Thank you so much!
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
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.
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.
You’re so talented!!! Love this! ❤
Thank you it's so nice to see another woman builder. Love your mini barn
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 ;)
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 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
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!
What an incredible looking chicken coop! And even better that it is a tiny version of your barn!
It’s pretty silly!
A mother and her chickens. Need to say more. A happy chicken is a well happy chicken.
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!
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!
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!
Oh Anne, you guys make my day shinier with ever single video you put out! 🥰🤙
So glad to hear it! Thank you!
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
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 ;) ua-cam.com/video/9WEHenvOWy4/v-deo.html
"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.” 👍
Such an awesome coop! 😍👌🏻🐔🐓🐔 Great job Anne! 👍🏻👊🏻
Thanks Fred!
thank you Anne . and they are tasty fried as in southern fried chicken yup
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.
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!!
Awesome build
Great content
Love all the hard work. Going to build one
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.
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
Glad I found your channel!!! Ironically, I saw you originally almost 2 years ago on April's channel. I used to always watch UA-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 ;) ua-cam.com/video/qD5T0Y-iOrg/v-deo.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.
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 :)
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 ;)
I love the chicken coop and I love the matching barn quilt 😍
Thank you!
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!
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.
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!
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?
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.
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!
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
milk paint is COOL!!! thanks for telling us about it.
I would make some type of shade attachment to hook to the water tank
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
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!!
Anne,you never cease to amaze me! 👍
Thank you!!
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.
You can't discount the power of whimsy ❤
It’s gorgeous but all I gotta say is: how do you not like chickens?!!!! They’re the best😹🐓🐓🐓❤
That is a very nice coop ma'am. Congrats on a great job. It looks stunning :) Jesus bless.
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 ;)
great looking and useful coop
Thank you!
What an incredible human ;)
Nice build. Stay safe, Joe Z
Thanks, will do!
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.
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 😁😁🙌
Man, if I had a farm that would be the hot ticket. Pretty cool idea!
Thank you!
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!
You are so encouraging thank you for being an inspiration
I'm so glad! Thanks for those kind words!
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.
Awwhh, chickens are good people!
Totally love this project. Start to finish 👍🏻💕 build on sister.
Thanks so much!!
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
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 ;)
You truly are an amazing young lady. And beautiful.
Just Awesome!
Glad you like it!
Black is going to heat that coop up in the summer
Also in the winter, but i dont see that as neccesary in tenesee...
It’s funny that the barn sign has a chicken on it and the chicken barn sign has an aoat logo.
Very intentional ;)
Great project!
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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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!
Just found you- you are so cool!
Thank you looks amazing!
What a great idea and awesome execution!
Thank you very much!
Very nice chicken coop
Thank you so much!
Anne, I'm confused - what is self-cleaning about this coop? I have arthritis but want to keep chickens and am worried that I won't be able, physically, to clean and maintain the coop.
You did an awesome job 👍
Thank you!
The base what did you use
Ann is algae buildup in the barrel ever a concern while being in the sun all day? Thanks.
It would be, but some simple additions like apple cider vinegar should keep it under control.
Anne of All Trades ok that tip helps thx. How much per 55 gallons. TIA.
Bestnest box. They're great.
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!
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
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
Super awesome!
Can I ask what the material cost was on this project and how long it took ?
A happy 🐔 is a happy 🥚 😃
“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!
you live in tennessee? and your painting it black? yikes! the chickens probaby are going to get even hotter in that things. I did not notice any windows? chickens handle the cold better than hot, my chickens suffer from the coop they are in despite it is open front, side open and very open at top and I use a fan. I love my chickens and yes they do alot keep the bugs donw (my roses actually did very well this year) and fertilizing the yard and the beds, and they make great pets. they like to follow me around sit on my lap and let me pick them up and hold them, pet them. really nice.
Howdy! The black color actually doesn’t affect the temperature at all. The coop is extremely well ventilated due to the open side, the open bottom, and the corrugated roof style and roof design also naturally pulls cool air from below the coop and vents the hot air out the top ;)
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.
What size is the trailer?
No air flowing thru with black paint? Looks like a hot box to me
There's a ton of airflow actually, the design takes that specifically into account. Also, black paint being a "hotter" color is, surprisingly to some folks, not correct.
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 ;)
Just out of curiosity, do you have raptors around?
Hawks, eagles, etc. And if so, how do you deter them?
Yeah they are everywhere. There are plenty of other wild critters for them to eat so they don’t seem too desperate. I have guardian donkeys and dogs too though, so they’re pretty well covered.
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The farm I lived at (where the ex lives, we're still friends) we had chickens and they ALWAYS hung around the horses.
Symbiotic. Horse could all nap because they knew the chickens would give alarm, and the chickens knew nothing was going to mess with them when the giant 4 legged beasts were about.
Twas lovely.
The Coop-Trailer is awesome :)
Curious to why your barn is black, and if its tradition with black barns ion the area?
Generally if you see a black wooden house (being a old home or barn or granary (stabbur en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B3rreo#/media/File:Bautahaugen_Samlinger,_Bergsrud.jpg) around here its because of tar.
Traditionally barns etc are red, and many of them painted with blood (originally).
Thanks! The generally accepted thought process on black barns being hotter is actually not correct. As far as the red barns go, that is one theory, though it’s more likely Farmers added ferrous oxide, otherwise known as rust, to the linseed oil mixture they used to coat the raw wood. Rust was plentiful on farms and is a poison to many fungi, including mold and moss, which were known to grown on barns. These fungi would trap moisture in the wood, increasing decay.
@@AnneofAllTrades Great answer :D
I heard similar stories/theories about red paints here too.
Easy to make (most places got "iron" somewhere in the dirt) and cheap.
Farm Red still is the cheapest "barn paint" you can get and it still keeps the fungi etc in check better than any other paints.
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.
Is there anywhere an explanation video of how it is self cleaning? I'm looking for ideas, but didn't see in this video where it would explain how it works.
The bottom is a grate so the poop just falls right through. 3 years in and I’ve had to scrape off some crusties only 3 times. Took about 10 minutes. Quickest easiest clean I’ve ever had in 10 years of chickens
@@AnneofAllTrades Awesome thank you. I like the idea.
Chickens say "Road Trip".
Great stuff
Thank you!
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
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 👍🏻