Project Chicken Coop!

So I got the idea that I wanted chickens in the Fall last year, after researching pre-built chicken coops and how expensive they were, I decided that we could build one ourselves. So we went and bought wood and collected pallets to use. Our timeline is to have it completed before we get chicks in the spring.

So we got all the wood we needed and it sat just like ^ for a couple months. We finally got one warm day in January and decided to get started.

We got the base built and we put it into the ground a little bit. Note to anyone thinking about building a coop... if you decide you are going to put it into the ground don't get to far ahead that its too heavy to pick up. Yeah, that happened we had it completely built and then realized we weren't going to be able to move it ourselves, we took it apart, moved it and then put it back together.

The zoomed view from our deck

so far we have used: 3- 4x4 for the legs (cut in half) I'll have to get the dimensions of the 2x? they started as 2x12's (I think) and then we cut them down 3 pieces of plywood that we also cut down to fit perfectly
I am really bad at keep receipts so I don't know what I paid but when I go back to the store I will look for you guys.

Our helpers!

Before we took it apart we started to put the pallets up as walls. It was exciting to see but it was short lived since we had to disassemble to move it to its forever spot.

This is it for now, hopefully we will get another day soon to work on it!