Find A Good Chicken Coop And You’re Started Towards Keeping Chickens At Home
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.
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