BUYER BEWARE!!! I bought the Rambler Coop - It is supposed to hold up to 10 chickens. I have 7.
The coops online looked well constructed and durable. I've had mine a week now and it's already falling apart! I've tried 5 different times to reach customer service. 2 emails, 2 FB messages and 1 phone call.... NO RESPONSE.
The ultra lightweight wood it's constructed with began to splinter and fall apart before i even had the thing put together. Construction is super simple, but on day 1, my chickens roosted on the top and managed to scratch and chip the wood with their nails. Coops should be able to withstand this behavior. The metal latches are misaligned so they don't close well and I had to remove and adjust them, but they are not 100%, and one was missing it's locking mechanism - Also, the nesting boxes are so shallow that the chickens scratch or push all the nesting material out of the them so they are laying their eggs directly on the wood bottom, I had to put additional pieces of wood in front of them to prevent it from happening. Also on the roof, the wood is separating where the grain feathers. I'm mad because I deconstructed my previous coop and am not able to reassemble it. So now I'm stuck with a coop that won't last a year and at over 400.00. What a rip off. read more