Here’s a really nice (and cheap) chicken house made out of 7 unused wood pallets. It uses 3 wood pallets bolted together to form the floor structure, and another 4 to form most of the walls. In addition, plywood is then used to finish & enclose the coop. The entire coop is raised off the ground allowing the chickens to also scratch around under their new home. The end result is a really nice, low cost, pretty large chicken coop to house your ladies in…
Here you can see how the floor structure has been bolted to the feet…
…the floor upside down with feet attached. The pallets have also been bolted together…
…flipped over and ready to start assembling the walls…
…here you can see more pallets being used to construct the walls, being supported with further timber across the top to strengthen the structure…
…nesting boxes have been incorporated into a section of the wall, so the hens can lay their eggs…
…doors are being added to allow for easy access to the nesting boxes…
…another shot of the doors, and plywood that has been added to the outside & painted…
…more painting…
…additional doors are added at the opposite end to be able to access the coop…
…looking into the coop you can see a few perches have been added…
…a look inside the coop. Plenty of room in there for the hens…
…the entry way for the hens…
…the final coop…
…a really nice job of recycling pallets into something useful (By Butch Bridges).
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