Hoop run for chickens

Well (finally) here are some pictures of my hoop house! Several folks have asked me for plans but this build was done ad-hoc so I didn't really have any plans to share. So, here are some links to a few different plans for building a similar hoop house/coop: Rain Creek Pottery Hoop Coop Chicken Tractor Backyard Chickens Hoop House Whole View Farm Hoop Coop The basic idea behind pastured poultry is to move the chickens to fresh grass each day. So the pen needs to be light enough to pull with a…

This post is long and long overdue. I built a chicken tractor over the spring. What's a chicken tractor you ask? Well that depends on if you ask a green tractor chicken or a red tractor chicken... Most people look at me funny when I say I have a chicken tractor. I think they imagine a dozen chickens tethered to a plow or something. A select few probably imagine an actual chicken driving a tractor. If you fall into the latter camp, I would love to know what you think a cock fight is. Leave a…

Have to share my husband's coop design: Pallets, cattle and horse panels, plywood, old pool cover tarp, and compost . . . Setting the posts and pallets. The entire structure is 40 feet long x 8 feet wide. 20 x 8 is the enclosed coop...

About a week or so ago, I wrote about the multi-purpose hoop house we're building to house our animals this winter and serve as a greenhouse/brooder in the spring. Click here for Part I, and click here for the design we're following (remember, there is a link to an improved design at the bottom of that post). Byron made progress this week, and this weekend I left the house to clean itself and went out to help him. Here's how it looks so far: We placed a beam the entire length of the…

Our New Hoop Coop!

So, i have been researching hoop coops for a while now, but have 2 questions. (Possibly worth noting, i am making a 'hoop run' to attach to a preexisting...

Like every good (or bad?) idea, first you need a plan. I had come across a couple of coop hoop building plans during one of my chicken resea...

Chicken Tractor Hoop House *altered from one found on backyard chickens: Barred Babies made a post back in 2012 of a house that they made from a plan they saw elsewhere as well-thanks for the outline for my hoop house!!!!* Here is a list of...