Building a Chicken Coop inside our Barn - Part 1 - Walls and Doors

We are building a chicken coop in the lower level of our bank barn.
The chicken coop will be around 10 wide by 14 feet long. It will have a nest box with 5 nests that can be accessed from the outside to retrieve the chicken eggs. The coop will have a large entrance door to make it easier to clean out the coop.
Right now we have 23 chickens on our homestead. We also have 3 Nigerian dwarf goats. We would like to have all our animals in the barn, so we can take care of them out of the weather and rain.
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[@maryannrurup353]

Great idea on hardware cloth.

[@kentshrader6616]

Very "pretty" work! Great videos!

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Evan and Rebecca, thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍

[@blackwater4707]

Looks great. We call that door a stable door and it will be very handy. I like how you matched the door join with the planks you had going around the coop.

[@Tomhohenadel]

Coop and door looks good. Great teamwork. Baby goats are sweet

[@EC4400]

Great job. Coming together nicely.

[@hxFubar]

Looks great, don't forget to place an adjustable angled brace in your door from the upper hinged side corner to the lower non hinged side corner so you can lift your doors back into square as they sage. You can use a cable with a turn buckle so as it sages you just give it a few turns.

[@MrHandoverfist]

I'm building a coop. your mending plates idea for soiling things up is #PRICELESS thanks! Kathy in Alaska

[@ramonlopez6053]

We live in limestone Illinois.. We will love to stop by and visit you guys..

[@ldg2655]

Looks good!

[@wmd40]

Really nice video. I don't have experience with carpentry and especially as a woman find it intimidating but this video is very inspiring because it's exactly what I want to do when I finally buy a home. Thanks again for the great video

[@13MoonsOverMayhem]

Looking forward to seeing the finishing on this, it might help me decide what I want to do. I'm thinking of putting a coop in our barn, too, but I only have a three stall horse barn to work with, so I'm a bit unsure if I want to use a whole stall for chickens/fowl.

[@jameslcoble248]

That looks really good. I like it so far.

[@rampanttricky17]

I was impressed watching your building/assembly work. You make it look so straight forward. When add onto (within) an existing structure i frequently forget that the existing elements will (most) often NOT be at right angles, not be flat, etc. :-)

[@redbudfarm]

Nice job!

[@graythistle]

Thanks! We have an old barn and are trying to figure out how to use it. This video really helps!

[@glorialeach7301]

Great coop 👍

[@cheffsolo7739]

Great video .

[@Rudt2691]

I like it.

[@mato1943]

I think having a tar paper under the post is simply a cheap insurance simply no reason not to do it thumbs up for going back and doing it

[@CountryViewAcres]

I was surprised I didn't have any tar paper laying around. So I had to buy a roll, but it is cheap to buy.

[@jamiemckenzie8516]

Pasture is fair greening up !

[@Beecozz7]

Nice! Y'all make short work of your projects, on video anyway!!! Well done!

[@CountryViewAcres]

This actually took 2 and half days to finish. I had 178 video clips to edit. I had to break it into 2 videos, because it was a 29 minutes long.

[@stevemartinez6757]

Very nice work! I would love to have a barn like that to work with. We are still in the clearing stage... 35 acres of woods in North Florida. Your videos give me a lot of ideas. Keep them coming!

[@CountryViewAcres]

How much of an area are you clearing? Luckily my property was overgrown since it was abandoned for 5 years. Mostly brush and small trees. I didn't have to clear woods. I am sure that is a lot more work.

[@stevemartinez6757]

@@CountryViewAcres Right now we have about 1 acre cleared for our home site and a couple of acres of pasture. There is also about a 1 acre or so plot that used to be planted blueberries. There are still some there but a lot of cleanup is going to be needed to restore the rows. The plan is once the house is built we would like to raise perhaps some chickens and goats.

[@NancyBryantIdeas]

Thank you for showing using the mending/ nail plates. I had been wondering about those.

[@CountryViewAcres]

They are hard to work with, lots of hammering and trying flatten. other people didnt like them. So may not be the best choice.

[@NancyBryantIdeas]

@@CountryViewAcres There are other plates. I used a different kind to hang 2 cross ties in my small chicken house. (I need to re-start my channel and get some content up.)

[@rampanttricky17]

I hope this info is helpful The mending plates are available with holes for nails or screws. The ones with the formed spikes are intended for production work using a press - they are TRUSS or CONNECTOR PLATES rather than mending plates. www.mitek-us.com/products/Connector-Plates/

[@Bass2010]

Other nice build but I was really hoping for some goat antics 👍👍👍🐐🇺🇸

[@dougmoore7116]

Thumbs up

[@mickeysummers238]

Tried that. Have fun dealing with mites.

[@Boonandcrocket69]

I'd look into using dowl rods wrapped in rope for the chickens. Or natural logs from a tree. The 2x4 have been known to cause bumble foot for chickens

[@jaywest4102]

Lots more building projects in your future. Instead of the plates, you might like pocket screws.

[@BootsOnABagger]

I know this is an older video but those plates are not designed to take the place of nails or screws. They will back out over time if you don't put a few nails in them.

[@HaroldReece]

Kreg pocket screws.

[@austinsensenig9411]

Your located in southern illinois?? I'm in northern Illinois buddy would love to come help you with your pig operation or have you guys up to see our farm!

[@CountryViewAcres]

What town are you near in Northern Illinois are you?

[@austinsensenig9411]

@@CountryViewAcres I am located near princeton il north of Peoria about an hour or so

[@CountryViewAcres]

You about 4 hours away from me. That is probably to far to come see your farm. But I do like the idea, I would like to see other peoples homesteads or farms to see how they do things. But I think I you are a little further then I would want to drive. Thanks for the offer.

[@venitashelby4126]

What part of southern Illinois? My daughter and I live in Goreville,Il In Johnson county in southern Illinois.

[@CountryViewAcres]

We live in southeastern Illinois along the wabash river bordering indiana.

[@venitashelby4126]

@@CountryViewAcres That's an awesome spot. I have a friend in Carmi and that's probably close to y'all.

[@maryannrurup353]

Make sure you open the nesting box open from back NOT the top...

[@tracykeenan4449]

You could use pocket holes too it’s cheaper

[@salmonhunter7414]

I Hope the goats don,t jump on the wire and brake the wire mesh or tear it off.

[@CountryViewAcres]

I hope they don't tear it up also. We used 3/4 inch fence staples to secure the hardware cloth. Hopefully it with stand the goats.

[@larrybarber]

Tell Rebekah to get closer to the camera, shy huh

[@albundy1956]

Nice job, but whats the mind on a two pice door in a chicken coop? I don´t get it...

[@CountryViewAcres]

Just to be able to throw food or chicken scratch to the chickens Without having to get inside the coop.

[@albundy1956]

@@CountryViewAcres OK, got it.

[@oldtimeengineer26]

looking good she does not talk much

[@MrHandoverfist]

my hubby bought the plates and found them to be #HORRIBLE as a connecting choice and HARD to work with. I would say DO NOT USE the backing plates.

[@CountryViewAcres]

Sorry if they didn't work out for you. They can be difficult to hammer down and stay flat. They like to wrap and bend. They will give you a work out to hammer them on. Sorry they didn't work.