In this blog post we are sharing our “Project Chicken Coop” with you. This was an outhouse that came with our property and in mighty rough shape.
Check out this video below for this scary outhouse to a chicken coop conversion…
The picture below is before we moved it and started tearing it apart to rebuild it for chickens.
The pictures below are after we relocated it and getting leveled up for the rebuild. This will be a fun rebuild and a worthwhile one. We will do our best to get lots of good pictures as well as videos through the process that might help you with your own projects.
As you have probably noticed in the pictures above, this old outhouse is in pretty rough shape. Believe it or not, under all this rough skin was really good treated lumber that we will be able to reuse on this project chicken coop. After tearing off the old junk outer skin we are getting everything measured and marked for cutting and getting it squared up. Once we have it square, then we can start studding the walls back up and get it structurally stable, square and ready for the new outer skin.
The pictures below are after we started tearing the outhouse apart and preparing to turn it into a chicken coop. It always amazes me when I tear apart other peoples work to see the kind of work they have done. Sometimes it is good and you can actually learn some new tricks and sometimes it’s not so good and you can learn what “not to do”…like in this project. I have still not figured out why you would build something so out of square, but it is what it is. As mentioned earlier, we was originally going to just repair and be ready for chickens, but after seeing this up close, we decided it was best to rebuild it and make it right.
Project Chicken Coop Is Underway
Why did we tear this apart instead of just repairing it? After all, it’s just chickens that are going to be using it…right? Yes, that is right, but this old outhouse was 7″ longer on one side than the other and almost 10″ longer in the front than the rear. You might say the ones that built this didn’t know how to use a tape measure and square, or didn’t own one. Lol.
Tools We Are Using On This Project
- Large square
- Speed square
- Tape measure
- 4′ level
- Safety glasses
- Dewalt reciprocating saw
- Dewalt impact driver
- Coated construction screws
- Galvanized nails
- Galvanized lag bolts and washers
- Hammer
- Ridgid circular saw
- Little giant ladder
- Wrecking bars
- Tile spade and shovel
The piles of lumber and wood above that we tore off this old outhouse is lumber we will be able to reuse in this project Chicken Coop.
More to come in the following weeks on our “Project Chicken Coop”. Stay tuned to our blog and also subscribe to our New Facebook Page and hit the “Like” button.
We will also be sharing videos of this project, the chicken feeders we have made and much more.
Always do your best,
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