Ashley and Johnnie Hoskins Jr. weren’t planning to start a business when they built their first custom chicken coop.
Playing off the fact that their friends were getting married in a barn, the couple built a small coop and gave it as a wedding gift.
“Johnnie told me he was going to make them a chicken coop, and really I thought he was joking,” Ashley Hoskins said. “I realized he was serious, and I was like, ‘OK, go for it.'”
In the months since, the Hoskins have built more coops at the urging of their friends and family, and they recently got their business license to make Custom Coops & Cages official.
The pair work together to build the coops and cages in the driveway of their small Chattanooga home. Johnnie Hoskins does all of the building, and his wife helps paint and keep the books in order.