Chicken Coop Plans - Part 1
August 1, 2009 - 6:10 am
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Chicken Coop PlansFind A Good Chicken Coop And You’re Started Towards Keeping Chickens At Home
July 4, 2010 - 10:30 pm
Everybody loves eggs. They’re one of the most versatile foods you can have in the fridge. And everyone loves pets. So why not combine the two and keep chickens in your back yard. That way you satisfy the urge to get a pet, and you’ll also be getting plenty of eggs for the fridge.
As all kids love pets they will also love chickens. I have chickens and I have kids and the kids are delighted with their chickens. They feed them and pat them and give them names. Chickens are cheap to feed, and if you let them out in the garden during the day they’ll eat those pesky bugs that are feasting on your flowers. They are also relatively easy to keep and don’t make lots of noise as long as you don’t get a rooster.
But before you decide that keeping chickens is a great idea and jump in the car to go by some you need to think a little bit about a good chicken coop , because you will need a chicken coop to house your chickens.
Of course you need to decide how many chickens you are going to have in your chicken coop. 3 or 4 hens is really quite sufficient to the average household, and if you are keeping this number than a simple portable chicken house that can move around the garden is quite sufficient.
The first thing you need to think about is whether there are any regulations governing keeping chickens or having a henhouse . In some places regulations specify what you can and cannot do.
The cheapest way to get your own chicken coop is to build it yourself. If you’re handy with a hammer and nails it shouldn’t be too difficult. Some treated pine, some chicken wire and a few odds and ends and you can have your own chicken coup built during an afternoon.
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Although not essential it helps to provide an enclosed area for the hens to nest. This is where the eggs will be laid.
As well as this you need some perches above the floor of the coop where the chickens perch to sleep at night.
There is a simple A-frame design that is easy to build and quite adequate for 3 or 4 chickens. Run rods from one side of the chicken coop to the other for the chickens to roost on at night and put some cover over this area so they are not roosting in the rain.
If you put handles on one end of the coop and wheels on the other it’s quite possible to roll it around the garden every few days. Just put it where you would like some fertiliser applied, leave it for a couple of days and you have automatic fertiliser for the lawn.
You can always allow your chickens out of the henhouse during the day. Make sure however that they all return at night and the door is closed in case of foxes. Your chickens will clean up your yard of any nasty bugs.
Kids just love having chickens, as well as the eggs. But before you get started on your new hobby of keeping chickens decide how many you wish to have, and buy or build a a good quality chicken coop to house them in and you’re well on your way to a fridge full of eggs.
Grab that hammer and nails out of the shed, get started on a simple handyman project that you can enjoy doing with the kids, get yourself some chickens and then enjoy all those wonderful omelettes.
Chicken Coop Plans - 3 Essential Techniques For Selecting Chicken Coop Plans
September 21, 2009 - 7:50 am
If you are looking for chicken coop designs on the internet, then you are probably searching for the foremost way to build a chicken coop. However, there are main concepts you need to know in order to select the best plans that will suit your precise situation.
Tip #1 – Build Your Coop for Easy Maintenance
One of the biggest impediment when preserving a chicken coop is cleaning it. Some people do not make their coops with ease of maintenance in mind, and suffer the consequences later on. But you can learn from their mistakes, and make certain that your coop will be easy to clean in the future. One very important component is to make sure the floor of the coop is sloped downward toward the main door. When you wash the inside of the coop, the water will necessarily drain outside, instead of puddling in the midpoint.
Tip #2 – Make sure of Enough Space
Do not scrimp on the size of your chicken coop. Chickens that live in tiny coops resort to deviant pecking and even cannibalism. You do not want this! As a rule of thumb, you should give about 4 square feet per chicken. So if you have a coop holding 10 chickens, 40 square feet will be ample room for your chickens to grow, feed, and breed.
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Tip #3 – Guard Your Coop From Weather and Predators
It is important that you construct your chicken coop with safeguards in mind. Both weather and predators can destroy on your coop, so construct it with these tips in mind.
Make the coop on a high area with ample drainage and put it facing the sun. In the end if it rains, this spot will not only guarantee that the coop does not get flooded, but that it dries fast when the sun comes out.
Build your doors with proper strength mesh wire. Believe it or not, this step is one of the most common mistakes people make when building their coop. Without the proper toughness, your mesh wire will succumb to even the littlest of killers, allowing them easy entry to your chickens.
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September 13, 2009 - 10:44 pm
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September 11, 2009 - 11:49 pm
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September 10, 2009 - 11:45 pm
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September 9, 2009 - 9:59 pm
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If you like the thought of waking up to a breakfast of freshly laid, free-range eggs at a fraction of the cost and inconvenience of traveling to the nearest store to buy some, then building a backyard chicken coop and hosting your own egg laying team could be just the thing for you. Join the increasing number of families across the country who are doing just that.Chicken Coop Plans
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There are many chicken species that you can raise. You will want to choose a chicken species depending on the type you want to raise. There are many chickens that look healthy but they have a diminished egg laying capacity. Others may give a lot of eggs each day. So, choosing a chicken breed to raise is a matter of what you want to do with it.
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How to bulid a Chicken Coop - Make Your Own Chicken House
September 4, 2009 - 11:48 pm
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Learn how to build a chicken coop with step by step instructions using materials and equipment that can be found around the house and be bought very cheap! Save tons of money and produce pure organic eggs fresh and safe to eat!!
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August 28, 2009 - 8:59 am
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