Building a chicken roost

Chicken roost 101 is the easy way to DIY a chicken roost for your backyard chickens. How to build the perfect chicken roost for your chicken coop

Why do chickens roost? Not only does it protect them from predators, but it also promotes their social hierarchy and improves their sleep quality. 🐔

Tour our chicken coop and learn what a dropping board is, plus a few other tips that will help make life easier as you raise chickens.

Why Aren't My Chickens Roosting? If your chickens aren't roosting at all, it may be due to several reasons. First, consider age. If your chickens are very young or have recently joined your flock, they may not have learned how to do it yet...

This is my incomplete building that includes a 16' x 16' coop area and a 16' x 8' Egg cleaning room. First of the outside: First coming through the door...

Greetings and Holykisses! So much has been going on, but I'm determined to get a blog on today and say howdy to yall! I've missed everyone so much and we have much catching up to do. There have been so many changes happening and we've been so busy. I find myself getting up with the chickens, and coming in well after dark. The roofers are still here, and our house is looking different day by day. I'll try to show pictures of that soon but for now, I thought you might like to see what we've…

Save time and effort with this simple dropping board concept for your chicken coop. Find out how to build it and the "secret" that makes it work so well!

Welcome to Da Coop. We're from Minnesota (Me-ne-SOOO-tah!) so we say it da cOOOOp. We talk funny and we're proud of it! When we first started thinking about building a coop, I found a lot of places that were dead-ends, that were appearing...

Part 1 of detailed directions for building your own 4x6 chicken coop, including a free PDF list of all the supplies you will need!