About 9 years ago I built our chicken coop all by myself with the only power tools being a drill & jigsaw! The only experience I had in building anything large out of wood was when I was a teenager & I built my cat a tower. I wanted chickens so bad that I wasnโt willing to wait until we moved out in the country! I went a little overboard on the design, because I wanted it to look like an English/French cottage. I saved a whole bunch of designs I wanted it to look like then drew up my own design to create. It took me all winter building it indoors then we brought it home, I built an attached run, & we bought some chicks a few months after that. I created circular air vents in the top sides right next to where they roost at night so they could have plenty of airflow, a cedar shake roof, little framed roof on top of the vents, wooden shutters that open, & a rope pulley for the door that lets them out in the morning! It was so fun building this - it definitely inspired me to do more building projects. Now if we ever move weโre going to have a problem taking this with usโฆ
