Diy Dog House Chicken Coop

Converting a dog house into a chicken coop.

Diy dog house chicken coop. Here are our sweet silkie chickens. It did the trick but we wanted to make sure they were better protected. This small chicken house incorporates both a coop and a run. Hinges and a lock for the coop door.

4x4 used for the legs on the frame we only needed one. I am so excited to start on the new project. Turn a dog house into a chicken coop. A piece of plywood or something similar to create a door for the coop.

We now live on 5140 acres so the dogs have plenty of space. Thanks for all your helpful info. Hopefully this will give you some ideas for your own coop. I m reposting this so you can see all of the improvements that we ve made since we built our coop.

It has a small door for access and the bottom of one of the sides opens up to allow for easy cleaning. Will you keep the existing chain link perimeter fencing. I am lucky enough to also have a dog pen which the dog house coop will be inside. An old dog house the inspiration.

The size of an existing dog house converted into a chicken coop will most likely mean a small flock of three chickens. It will house up to 6 chickens and although it is cheap to build it is on the more technical side. A dog kennel usually contains a small to medium sized doghouse sometimes with a long and narrow concrete slab in front of the doghouse and is usually surrounded by a chain link fence. We had them separate from the other hens since they were show birds and their coop was just an open box.

I do still have my dogs. My daughter has these babies as show chickens for 4h. By erin huffstetler 10 17 2013 7 comments.