Well hello there everyone! Are you all going bananas at home as I am? I have tried to put my downtime and energy into some homesteading projects while being quarantined, and this DIY small chicken coop for my rooster is the latest one!
I will have plans for a DIY large chicken coop available at the end of this month…hopefully! It is framed out, with siding and a roof… but not finished yet because I had to whip this up quickly in the middle of building it! 😆 It is 8’x8′ with an attached run that is 6’x16’…a nice size coop for a backyard flock of ladies! Lol! I cannot wait to complete it! Update: I completed it and have the plans for you! DIY Large Chicken Coop Plans
Table of Contents
- Gathering Supplies for the Small Chicken Coop
- Printable Plans for Small Chicken Coop
- Materials for DIY Small Chicken Coop
- Cut List for the DIY Small Chicken Coop
- Building the DIY Small Chicken Coop
- Building the doors for the small chicken coop!
- Want to save this adorable small chicken coop for later? PIN IT!
I did as a LOT of people did when the store shelves were void of eggs, I purchased 20 pullets (baby hens) so that I could have my own eggs! I am also very particular and want MY kind of eggs, I buy pasture-raised, soy-free, organic eggs and I do not want to have to lower my standards on the eggs we eat, so I figured it was time to bite the bullet and start raising my own! I have only wanted to do this for the past 13 years! Lol!
In the middle of raising my 20 pullets, I decide that you know what, “I love these ladies so much, I want to have more chicks, not just eggs!” So I contacted the lady that I bought my babies from and sure enough, she had a juvenile rooster for me to buy! Woohoo!
Well you see, as I was loading him into my car, she reminds me that the rooster cannot be near the chicks bc he is old enough he will try to breed them and that will kill them!😲Uh-oh! He was going to forage the backyard until I had the coop ready…shows you what an inexperienced chicken farmer I am!😂😂
So out to Home Depot, we ran with Richard in tow, that’s his name, by the way, so that when he is acting like a dick, and we call him Dick, it’s just part of his name! Lol! So far he is sweet as can be and not a dick at all, but he also isn’t protecting hens yet so that means nothing!😆
Long story short, we had to whip this small chicken coop up as fast as possible so that Richard wasn’t stuck in his dog crate! 😅 I actually had a blast building this with my boys helping! The 3 of us together whipped it up in one and a half days. I spent another half day figuring out a few areas I wasn’t sure of but you won’t have to spend time on that because I have figured it out for you in the DIY Small Chicken Coop Plans! Woot Woot!
This small chicken coop is just that…small! Lol! It measures 2’x4′ and a little over 5′ tall, so I wouldn’t put more than 2…maybe 3 chickens in it! I didn’t add nesting boxes simply because it is for a rooster, but you can easily slip them inside or add a box on the back! There is a roosting bar that you can’t see that sits right above the big door!
UPDATE: Funny thing is, two years later, the rooster is able to live with all the ladies now but we leave the bottom door open because 2 hens like to sleep in here and they lay their eggs in here…without nesting boxes! LOL! They lay them on the floor of the top part!🤷🏼♀️ Chickens are silly creatures!
I built this small chicken coop with a small door inside a large door that completely folds down on top so that I can also use it as a chicken brooder if I don’t end up with a broody momma hen!
What do you say, are you ready to build yourself a small chicken coop?
Maybe a few more pics because it is just so CUTE! The ladder is my FAVORITE part! Lol!
Gathering Supplies for the Small Chicken Coop
I know that when I was trying to decide which style of small chicken coop I wanted to build, I looked around Pinterest and almost every chicken coop I found, you had to buy the plans, and I understand why people are charging for plans, a ton of work goes into creating them. But I would have not started building more than likely if it weren’t for the FREE plans by Ana White and Shanty 2 Chic, so, for now, my plans remain free but I do ask for an email address to download them, and that does add you to my email list!
