For the past few years, I've been telling anyone who would listen that, when I bought a house, the first thing I'd do would be to get chickens. True to my word, I closed on my house in February of this year, and come March, I was the proud owner of 12 adorable baby chicks. However, buying chickens is the easy part building them a coop proved to be much more of a challenge, taking way more time (and money) than I ever anticipated. On one hand,.