Final Details of Your Chicken Coop

You’re at a stage where you have decided to go with having your own chicken coop. But before you can go on you need to have a checklist of the final details of your chicken coop construction plans just before embarking on building a proper chicken coop.

Like everyone else you want to raise chickens to get the benefit of having organic eggs on your dinner or breakfast table.

While you’re planning your design and embarking on building your coop you should at-least acknowledge the following few pointers before you start cutting and nailing walls and doors of the coop.

Dimensions of Your Chicken Coop

You first need to get your dimensions spot on. Specially if your yard is like mine a little narrow on one side. Make sure the recommended number of permissible inhabitants of the coop are adhered to.
Having an overcrowded coop can lead to pecking and competition between the chickens.

At this stage you need to make sure the maximum number of chickens your chicken coop can handle. If you aim to have 4 chickens then you want ot make sure your chicken coop can handle at least 8 chickens without having any problems. You want to have some extra space just in case you decide to expand. Recognizing the capacity of the inhabitants of your coop is very critical.

It is imperative that the chickens have enough space to go around and roost.  Chickens can get into fights if overcrowding occurs. Chickens do exercise and roam around just as they would in the wild. They will and want to move within the coop just as well as they happen to be in the yard.

Positioning Your Chicken Coop

Having to build a chicken coop for the backyard brings another main important factor to consider. Where would you be positioning the coop? Having your chickens is one thing but having a chicken coop that is visible to your neighbors is another thing.  If your yard is not visible to your neighbors then you have nothing to worry.

Having a coop that is visible to your neighbors is one area where you need to consider the visual attractiveness of your coop. You want o make sure your coop hase a nice appeal on the visual spectrum.  So splash some color on it to make it look more pleasing to look at it.  There are many ideas one can come up with when designing and thinking about building chicken coops for the backyard.

Building a chicken coop brings the best in a person. You end up thinking long and hard to determine all avenues for building and then all avenues for maintaining it on a regular basis.  Finally there is the aspect of what you will get form your hard work.

So, at this stage you have decided on the size and where you will place your coop. The next stage involves maintaining the coop in the most convenient way. The main area for maintenance is to ensure that you keep the coop in a clean and pristine state at all times.  This not only prevents unsightly look but keeps your yard clean, the smell to a minimum and the best of all keeps your birds disease free.

Maintaining Your Chicken Coop

Expect your chickens to mess up your chicken house.  Because of the confinement they will mess on the floors. Building your floors on an angle makes the cleaning a little bit more easier. When you hose the interior of the chicken house the water will run out leaving very little behind. Having a sloping floor makes it easier to dry after hosing the interiror.

Another important factor in hosing the interior makes it easier to recover the droppings into a bucket to use it as a fertilizer for your plants or a vegetable garden.  Fruit trees also love chicken manure. Chicken manure is an ideal manure or fertilizer that can be used for many species of plants and trees.

Insulating Your Chicken Coop

Other factors to consider while building your very own chicken coop is the positions of the windows.  You might want to make sure you can close it during winter and have it open during summer. Birds can virtually cook in the heat and get cold and die in sever cold days if they are not shielded from extreme temperatures. Keeping this thought brings us to having insulation throughout the main areas of the coop.

Rewarding Experience

Sick chickens are not productive and will eventually stop growing and die. Looking after your chickens brings the best in them.  If you’re getting decent size eggs and nutritiously rich eggs then you’re on the right direction.

Build your chicken coop the right way and consider the points above for a rewarding experience.