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Chicken owners are a particularly self reliant bunch chicken keeping is meant to make you just a little more self sufficient why spend gobs of cash to do it maybe that helps explain why so many chicken folks build their own coops to get started you should familiarize yourself with chicken coop styles the tools and building materials . Chicken coop designs and plans backyard chicken coop plans can range from small to large a frame to barn designs and many more variations the most common style and configuration is a traditional coop with exterior nesting boxes and an open gable roof. When you first learned how to build a chicken coop you cut the front panel into five pieces now clamp the left panel to the front left side of the frame use a pencil to mark a 3 inch border on the panel then attach it to the frame by driving 1 5 8 inch screws at each corner of the border. If you have three chickens now but plan on adding more within the year build a coop for the number of chickens you anticipate having the chicken math rule is generally 4 square feet per chicken in the coop and 8 10 square feet per chicken in the run simply because of space restrictions most people have in their back yards