Building the chicken coop walls from pallets building the chicken coop walls from pallets. once the bottom layer of the side walls were attached, we built a 2×4 frame to the inside of the coop for stability. interior frame for stability. the two frames on the ends were made to attach doors on each end. one for the chickens and one for us.. Pallet projects are a big thing these days, everybody loves to recycle pallets and this is a great chicken coop for a small garden or just make bigger to suit your needs., if you’re looking for pallet wood, i suggest you try to get pallets that are fairly new (check craigslist or just about any industrial-type business.. Since the pallet duck house build was a success, we decided to move our egg slaves into the yard this winter and build them a simple coop. the one thing missing in my opinion in a lot of pallet builds is insulating and outside finishes. so here is our version of a pallet chicken coop..
Having built a chicken coop before, this free pallet chicken coop plan is a second attempt to build a coop, which is more elegant and functional. although it is not so large, it includes a door for a human to walk in, plus it includes a run for the chicken to spend time in, which is covered in chicken wire.. You will need to determine what size coop you hope to build so you will know how many pallets you will need to collect. in order to make it a walk-in coop, you will need to stack pallets two high. so keep that in mind during the time of collecting pallets. we used 2×4’s that we had from old projects..
