DIY A-Frame Mobile Chicken Coop | How-to & Tour

DIY A-Frame Mobile Chicken Coop | How-to & Tour | Homestead Builds

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6 ай бұрын

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@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Most other coop plans you’ll see require the use of an electric net surrounding the coop for safety OR free ranging your birds. We designed this so it has a fully enclosed run without needing an electric net, but we have the ability to use a net with it in the future if we wanted to do so.

@barbaragalbreth4429 26 күн бұрын

Love watching young couples enjoy the best days of their lives, I wish you both a great time.

@calicocowacres 24 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@waddeym 5 ай бұрын

That is quite the nice rooster house and from the roosters point of view, far better than freezer camp.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Right😂 I’m sure they’re glad!

@ChristinaMoore79 2 ай бұрын

I think I'm gonna have to hire Taylor to come and build my chicken coops!

@sheliahyatt2531 5 ай бұрын

I love the moveable coop. Taylor should build more coops and sell them. It's very nice.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Right?? Thank you! someday when we’ve got less projects of our own that need done! It would be so fun to do!

@farmernledell 5 ай бұрын

It’s nice to hear your not just doing the standard copy paste thing but rather working towards a goal and a personal plan 🤠👍

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Doin what’s best for us!🫶🏼

@patz780 5 ай бұрын

Your roosters are living in high style! I so admire your determination to build function, safety and durability into everything you build. Taylor’s attention to detail adds an esthetic that makes it an attractive part of your landscape, too. Nicely done, you two. What’s next?

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

This is so nice! Yes, we really love to think through everything as much as we possibly can to accommodate ourselves and the function. Plus, architect-mickayla likes things to look pretty haha what's next? raised beds!

@denisemusicnut 5 ай бұрын

Kitty inspected and approved! Great job! You obviously put a lot of forethought into the design! If I tried to figure out all of those angles, the only result would be a headache! I can see something similar working for baby chicks between leaving the brooder, and joining the adult chickens.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Haha ricky wishes it was for him! We drew it out in a sort of CAD program before we started so that we could measure the angles correctly. Doing that math manually gives me a headache too lol I think the design could be adapted to a few variations like chicks for sure!

@debbiebeckstead9268 5 ай бұрын

I love Taylor’s crib awesome you guys are the best I’m sure that you can always find somebody needing a rooster 🐓 even just to eat it!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Awh thank you! 😊

@lakesideof.grateful 5 ай бұрын

Good job on the coop guys, just give him a friend please they are very social animals !

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

He has a friend :)

@SundryTalesOfConstance79WESTY Ай бұрын

Nooice! 😎 STOC

@waterlooboy 5 ай бұрын

Nice job on the rooster mobile home!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! The frat house! "delta roo" lol

@Mamasmovietime 5 ай бұрын

What a beautiful Rooster Coop. I just love watching you guys. You do you, it works. Every project is done to perfection.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. We're so glad you enjoyed :)

@gejtis77 3 ай бұрын

Yall did awesome. Don't sell yourself short a couple wrong cuts happen to everyone atleast you can still use them for shorter boards or scrap pieces. If it's what yall want then it's perfect but I'll bet your next one will be even better watch. I give it an A+

@paulawhite2882 5 ай бұрын

That is a great small coop. It looks so much better than the ones I see at the farm stores. The door to just put feed in without having to go into the coop. Plus the one where they roost. Great job!+

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I realllllly didn't want to have to crawl in there to feed them everyday. The food hatch is working amazing.

@rebeccazody1278 5 ай бұрын

That looks so professional! Roosters will do great in this.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Taylor does a great job with building things. ☺️

@chelseaapicella4412 5 ай бұрын

Love it! We also have a bachelor flock (our game hens hatched out 3 chicks and they were ALL roosters). They free range and our other birds are in runs (so many hawks here). This is a great idea and I'd love to see the plans (ya know, in case the neighbors have finally had it with the boys roaming free, lol). Came out great!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

thank you! I'm working on frat house plans, hopefully will be out soon :)

@pennynewell3459 5 ай бұрын

Perfect for having the roosters in the garden.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

yesss!

@organicgarden12337 5 ай бұрын

Everything you do is incredible.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Well this is so sweet of you!

@osmadchlo 5 ай бұрын

Looks great! A perfect solution for the roos!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

I think so too!

@SaraUnger-jb1wf 5 ай бұрын

That is so cool 😊 like it ❤ thank you for make this video 🥰God bless you ✨

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

So glad you like it!

@packy0462 5 ай бұрын

Some great ideas, my first tractor is a tank. This one I'm building is a smaller A frame. Wish I would have done what you've done

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@moniquewendt5266 5 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this video, I would love to have the plans for this coop. I could see it being a great option for a chicken you need to isolate too.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

They're in the works! I'll letcha guys know once I've got them finished up :) thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

@camicri4263 5 ай бұрын

So cute! Blessings!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@sophielouiserugby7 5 ай бұрын

you are both amazing & love watching …thank you!!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! You’re too kind❤️😊

@ZooCityGaming 5 ай бұрын

i think the coop is a brilliant idea, over winter it would be great for the chickens to prep your vege garden for the new season, you guys are doing an awesome job, im hopping in the nex two years to begin my homesteading journey here in australia, im learning to grow and preserve on a small scale so i have some necessary skills for when i do get a larger property.

@Maggie-eo3rd 5 ай бұрын

Great idea! Your amazing creating solutions! God Bless ❤️🙏❤️ to you both!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@barbsoddznendz1896 5 ай бұрын

You guys do you! Great job!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Always! Thank you :)

@duckmanjoel 3 ай бұрын

A frame coop is the best. I built mine so I could walk inside.

@beverlyclayton1244 5 ай бұрын

Great job; ya’ll are so smart!!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thank you 🤗

@melissaandjason 5 ай бұрын

What a cute lil coop! Love your idea of keeping the old hens to work on the land. I always wanted to let ours die of old age and happy, unfortunately we had to move. But in the future we will do this as well. Great informative video, thanks you guys👏

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes, we want to honor their contributions to us in a way that they're happy but still useful & we think this will be a great plan for that. :)

@joannekreutzer752 5 ай бұрын

My mobile coop consists of a van that the engine blew out of it. We drag it to its next destination and easy to clean out and wash out when necessary. Everything drains down hill towards my future garden enhancing the soil. Win!!! Win!!! Great job kids 😉

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Hahaha this is AMAZING. Sounds like the coolest mobile coop I’ve ever heard of. Vanlife chickens😆😆

@sarahschlosser1203 5 ай бұрын

Nice job the roosters will love it.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

I hope so!

@TxPage 5 ай бұрын

This coop looks amazing and love how it can me rolled around. Had one idea I wanted to send your way that might be helpful. Could you put the chicken feed bin on a small tilt device? What I mean is if it could tilt out you could then fill the feed trough and then tilt it back in and possibly lock it in place. Watching the video it looked a bit awkward to fill it with the angle its at and this idea jumped into my head to possibly help you both out. If you are interested I could so draw up a makeshift blueprint to describe it better.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

This is a neat idea! Honestly, it may just be the angle that the camera was at because it is easy peasy in real life haha, but I like the brainstorming! I'd love to see if you made one of these yourself how it works out!

@islandgardener158 5 ай бұрын

Love it ❤

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

thank you!

@perfectscotty 5 ай бұрын

Great channel and videos, Just subscribed.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! welcome :)

@terranovaacres 5 ай бұрын

Rickyyyy! I think he wants you to make one for him now.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

He already stole my whole spot in bed & on the couch lmao he doesn't need another home as much as I'm sure he'd love it

@armidaperez5360 5 ай бұрын

Jason from Sow The Land has lots of coop designs and plans to make them. Check them out. You can make a ferternity boys coop roosters only Bobblehead Homestead has one and sometimes people are looking just for Roosters theirs have died.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

We prefer to design our own stuff to fit our needs specifically 😊 their plans are great, but we like to do our own thing

@mmurphy2317 5 ай бұрын

Did the 🐓🐓take to it immediately...or are they acquiring a taste for the Spring CHillton Suite(s)? 🤔🤣🙂🙃😆👏👏👏 Great job you two!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

They were a little confused at first but then they saw the fresh dirt to scratch and got excited 😆

@mmurphy2317 5 ай бұрын

After what happened to poor Bill(the duck)...I wonder/worry about any more of the flock gettin' "excited"👀🫢😵‍💫...lol....

@lavernebufmack5091 5 ай бұрын

I would love to have the plans you used to build your rooster cooper!

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

We'll have them for you soon! :)

@lucasstapp422 2 ай бұрын

Did you get the plans@@calicocowacres

@iryan9 2 ай бұрын

Love this design, are you guys able to share the plans for this? Or where I can find/purchase them?

@lauramichele474 5 ай бұрын

I ❤ basement chicken 🐓

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Marmalade says thank you 😊❤️

@richardcrossen9480 5 ай бұрын

A set of plans for your mobile coop would be great!🇨🇦 AB.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

workin' on it for ya! :)

@carolwinch-buist2356 5 ай бұрын

Two roosters together in a small space, one will dominate and they will fight, the older they get the more they will fight.

@robbiedickison2005 5 ай бұрын

I think Justin Rhodes has a couple of different "chickshaw" designs you might to check out

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

He does, we’ve checked them out. We’re weirdos that like to design our own stuff haha 😉 we just prefer to tailor things exactly to our own needs, but that’s probably just the architect in me

@bobbygreen2291 5 ай бұрын

I can see the broom straw growing all around your land ,,that means that your soil is lime deficient,,,save yourself a lot of time with garden ,,go buy a lot of lime like 800 pounds and just put way more than you think you need on areas you want to garden in ,,,now is the time that this works.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

Weve tested it & it’s deficient in ALL the things😂 working on doing what we can before growing season

@bobbygreen2291 5 ай бұрын

@@calicocowacres here where I live in Alexander county we have to do that ,,if we don’t our garden plants especially tomatoes get disease in the second week of June ,,early blight ,,with a heavy dose of lime in January we don’t get disease,,,yep just dump a whole forty pound bag in to one raised bed and you will be loving me.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

@@bobbygreen2291 we definitely got blight last year but it was late blight. I was pretty careful with making sure to fertilize with cal-mag, but you’re so right about the lime. We wanted to try and fix the issues ahead of growing season as much as possible this year.

@bobbygreen2291 5 ай бұрын

@@calicocowacres I tried everything before I learned what worked ,,,lime in winter works trust me ,,,and it’s not real expensive

@thekiltedtexan2480 2 ай бұрын

And as for the water bucket / y go through the side - instead of a bulkhead fitting out the flat bottom ?

@calicocowacres 2 ай бұрын

We wanted to be able to set the bucket on the ground, so out the side made more sense for us. Bulkhead fitting was more expensive but would work just fine👍🏼

@thekiltedtexan2480 2 ай бұрын

Hey instead of all the washers on the wheels / would cutting a piece of pipe at an angle be better ?

@calicocowacres 2 ай бұрын

This would work just as well.

@robertking8633 5 ай бұрын

I would make a ½ rounded notch for the bucket handle to set in when hanging on the beam to keep it from sliding around. Edit- Commented too soon...

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

😆😆 you were on the right track!

@debbiebeckstead9268 5 ай бұрын

They have one! They showed it.

@robertking8633 5 ай бұрын

@@debbiebeckstead9268 yeah I saw that after making the comment which is why I edited the comment.

@armidaperez5360 5 ай бұрын

You should reach out to chicken fencing to see if they would sponcer you for free fencing for a promotional video review.....

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

good idea :)

@Jojo-lf7yo 5 ай бұрын

Are they in there all the time? That’s small 😮

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

We let them free range when we’re outside to keep them safe, but the amount of space that this has is technically enough for 6 chickens (I personally think it’s too small for that many). Like we said in the video, we’ll be getting a mobile net for them to be able to forage a much larger area once we can afford it. For now, we move it to fresh grass daily so they can snack on all the bugs & plants😌

@misterblinkies5037 5 ай бұрын

Feed will get wet every time it rains

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

We feed ours a specific amount of soaked fermented feed daily, so this isn’t an issue for us. But you could easily mount an upside down piece of gutter to act as a rain guard or locate the feed trough under the coop section, but then you run the risk of poop constantly getting dropped in it. Do what works best for you! As we said in the video, this coop is tailored to our specific needs.

@pattymcintyre4234 5 ай бұрын

I’ve never had two roosters together without some major fighting.😢. One always becomes dominant and aggressive, even with me. Hope your ‘guys’ are docile.

@calicocowacres 5 ай бұрын

They've been together since day 1! Hope we don't have issues with them in the future.