The Project Lady - DIY Easy & Inexpensive Chicken Run

The HH is making progress on the chicken run! Since we didn’t have a blueprint for a run he is totally winging it based off a few pictures I showed him. The run will be 16 feet long and 12 feet of the run will have a matching cedar shake roof. We are hoping that Read More >>

MN-Hardy Chicken Coop and Run On April 25, 2015 my husband and I packed up our kids and our dog (she travels with us wherever we go) and drove to pick up our very first 1-2 day old chicks. We had waited close to three years after moving into...

We are new to keeping Chickens and this is what we built after 6 months of research and planning. This coop was inspired by the Wichita "cabin coop" found...

And this cuteness isn't an anomaly! There are some really cute DIY chicken coops in the world, like these:

Building a Chicken Run for Beginners: This is an 8'x6' fully enclosed chicken run made primarily of 2x4s. A run of this size, if it is used as the primary daytime habitat for your chickens, will be adequate for 4-5 chickens, provided you also have an appropriately-sized coop. Mine curre…

Building a Chicken Run for Beginners: This is an 8'x6' fully enclosed chicken run made primarily of 2x4s. A run of this size, if it is used as the primary daytime habitat for your chickens, will be adequate for 4-5 chickens, provided you also have an appropriately-sized coop. Mine curre…

This run took far longer to build than I anticipated thanks to the summer of never-ending rain here in Georgia. It was built flat in sections, the same way as the coop. You can see all four sections stacked here. I used concrete blocks on...

focus on the not as popular lean-to. What makes them so great? Are there any downsides? Let's explore why build a lean-to chicken coop.