This chicken coop is the perfect coop for anyone just starting out with chickens or if you’ve raised chickens for years. It is great for a couple of chickens or 20! It has so many great features like real working shutters to keep the rain out, a large run to give the ladies some sunshine, and nesting boxes to easily grab eggs! You are going to want this chicken coop built in your backyard or on your farm today!
Here it is! The post and plans you all have been waiting for…DIY Chicken Coop Plans…okay, maybe I have just been waiting to share them! Lol! This set of plans has me so excited because it’s a big build but so rewarding! You may not realize that you need chickens in your life, but you do I swear!😉
I have a funny story for you all! Remember when I posted the plans for my small chicken coop? Well, in that post I tell the story of getting a rooster and how I had to quickly make a coop for him because he couldn’t be in with my hens… he was big and they were small! All that work and HE started laying eggs! 😂
That’s not even the best part, we don’t know if we mixed him up and he’s been living in the big coop with the ladies, or HE is actually a HEN!! 😅 But either way, I promised chicken coop plans for a large chicken coop…and here they are! I am beyond excited with how it turned out and how well it works for our chickens…and possibly rooster!😆
Don’t mind that the chicken coop is already dirty and large weeds are growing everywhere, it has been raining here, Hurricane Hanna hit south of us a little while back, so the rain was constant for what seemed like weeks, and then more rain came! Plus the chickens have been living in the coop for well over two months now!😲 And the hideous fence is coming out soon, but these things take time… so for a small while, I have to look at a couple of fence eyesores! Lol! Our whole yard, our house, the goat shed… everything is under construction!😆 If only I could clone myself for free labor! Lol!
Y’all never in a million years could you have told me that I was going to have chickens and hug them and love them, would I ever believe you! 😂 But I do!! They are hilarious and we LOVE them as a part of our family! I laugh when I think of this because they are chickens…CHICKENS, I never liked chickens, but now I’m in love, not just with them, but with their coop as well!😁
Anyway, I could sit here and share 8000 pics of my ladies but I will stick to the plans…chicken coop plans that is! Lol!
Table of Contents
- Printable Plans for Chicken Coop
- Gathering Supplies from Chicken Coop Plans
- Building the DIY Chicken Coop
- Framing Out the DIY Chicken Coop
- Setting the Frame of the Chicken Coop
- Adding Plywood to the DIY Chicken Coop
- Building the Rafters for the DIY Chicken Coop
- Trimming Out the DIY Chicken Coop
- Painting the DIY Chicken Coop
- FAQ About Building a Chicken Coop
- Wanna save the chicken coop plans for later? PIN IT now!
I am not going to lie, it was a trial and error, and oops, and dang it, all the time on this build! It was some of the dumbest things that I forgot to take into consideration! For instance, I was making the chicken coop plans for 8’x8′ to utilize the supplies, well in my haste to get started and get this baby built…because the chickens were living in MY HOUSE 😲😅 I built all four walls at 8 foot long! *Forehead in palm!!!! Why?! Oy!
But despite the setbacks and mistakes, I got it built and with minimal extra materials! So the chicken coop plans will be exactly like as I built mine and if I get around to it, I’ll try to draw them up at the 8’x8′ if I have time later on! The dimensions are 8′ x 8′ 7″ for the main coop and the run is an additional 6’x16′ for a grand total of 8′ 7″ x 24′.
All in all, for materials I believe I spent around $1200-1300. Now it can be more or less depending on the cost of materials in your area. And I don’t even want to add in the gas, food, and Starbucks every other day when I made a material run because I forgot something! Lol!
There are ways to minimalize cost though, for instance, the roof rafters were cut at roughly 63″, I can easily get 8-foot boards into my van, but not 12 footers, if you can get 12-foot boards you will save 10 bucks just on the rafters. It seems small but then you look at all the trim boards as well, the vertical frame boards, and before you know it, boom it is a hundred dollar savings or more and I will take that ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!!🎉
The materials list consists of 12-foot replacements where available but shows the number of 8-foot boards if you are like me and cannot easily carry 12-foot boards, or they don’t deliver to your area!
Alright, are you ready to become a crazy chicken lady and build your very own chicken coop and love your chickens like family?😂 Here are the chicken coop plans!
