A New Chicken Coop at the Farm

The chickens at Ocoee Farm have been living in a make-shift chicken coop for almost a year now, and it’s been fine and okay. But not great and definitely not ideal. We’ve been planning to either buy a chicken coop or have one made for so long, and finally, this week, we had one built.

Since there wasn’t much for the crew to do at Holiday House, and there won’t be for a while (which is a good thing! that means we’re thisclose to doing things like plumbing and electrical now that we’re finished with framing), we had them scoot on down the hill to finally build the chicken coop we’ve always needed. The chickens have been in a fencing contraption PJ put together, which has been good, but it was never meant to be forever, and now seemed like the perfect time to build a chicken coop, especially with the below freezing temps we’ve been having lately.

PJ knew he wanted something simple in design, nothing flashy or fancy, so he came up with this minimal, classic coop. The best part of the entire thing is that it was built with leftover materials we already had, so the only things we had to actually buy were two posts. How great is that? The metal roof is leftover from the old roof at Holiday House, and same with the windows. All the zip board and 2x4’s are also leftover from that job. The front door was taken from an old house that was being torn down and PJ couldn’t live without it, so he took it before it was set to be demolished.

It took the crew about two days to get this thing up and we couldn’t be happier with it. It’s close in proximity to the Tiny House and The Pavilion, so we’re close to water we need it, making it super convenient. It took us a few days to settle on the location, but we’re both really happy with it.

All that’s left to do now is paint the outside and the door, and we plan to paint the metal roof, too. After that, we’ll also be fencing in around the new coop so that the chickens have more space to roam. And then it’ll be complete finished!!

Love to see this kind of progress at the farm. Even more progress has been made on it since we’ve been gone, so I’m excited to see what it looks like when we get back from the beach!!