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Building Chicken Coops – Urban Rancher Spills Secrets to Success
I bet you thought this article was lifted from a grocery store tabloid. Sorry to disappoint, but here are some important items to consider before you attempt building chicken coops.
A chicken coop or hen house has a couple of important functions: Protection for your flock and a place for the chickens to lay eggs and live out their lives.
Protection has two elements:
*Protection from the elements
*Protection from predators
The elements we need to concern ourselves about are dependent on your climate — both winter and summer. In the southern areas, heat is most troublesome. Up north… Continue reading
Diy Chicken Coops: Pointers When Building Chicken Houses
More and more hen owners prefer the creation of DIY chicken coops instead of buying coops. Building chicken houses, after all, can be much easier on the pocket, and can give value for your spent money compared to purchasing pre built pens for chickens. Before you build a chicken shed with your own two hands, however, there are some facts about good chicken coop building plans and several tips to ensure that you’ll have the perfect hen house.
The best location to place the coop
One of the very first factors you’ll have to think about is where you’ll build… Continue reading
Essential Steps Before Making Portable Chicken Coops
Portable chicken coops, sometimes called chicken tractors, are lightweight hen houses that can be moved easily around the garden. They have some really good points:
Very cheap and easy to make
Easy to keep clean
Ideal if you don’t have much space in your yard
Free fertilizing for your garden (the hens do it bit by bit for you as you move the chicken tractor around)
Constantly changing stock of insects and greens for the hens
Easy to move hens into the shade (hot weather) or shelter such as a garage (cold weather)
Unsettling and confusing for… Continue reading
How to Keep Mice Out of Your Chicken Coop
In the event that you’ve ever experienced mice in your chicken coop, perhaps you understand how it can feel to let your hens outside in the morning, only to find that their tail feathers have been chewed on. You might also discover that an egg or two has been cracked open. These situations are exactly what chicken fans can’t stand. A proficient chicken keeper would definitely identify this as a rodent intrusion. Rodents are bothersome and problematic creatures that eat your feed and damage your chickens, in addition to being carriers of sickness. Mice and rats can be a problem… Continue reading
The ventilation of small houses : poultry houses
The basic task of good small house ventilation is to bring clean air to apartment’s living quarters, especially bedrooms, and remove contaminated air from them. In addition, ventilation has a role in removing the unwanted moisture that is formed from ordinary living. Ventilation should be taken into account at the early stage of the building construction (in Finnish, rakentaminen).
Inside air should be changed at least once every two hours under normal conditions.Regulations require that normal ventilation can be improved at least 30 percent if necessary.
Ventilation brings clean air to air into all bedrooms, a… Continue reading
The Modern Green House or Glass House
Basically a green house is a building or a place where plants are grown and is made up of different types of materials such as glass or plastic roofs. These are also called a Glass House…
The structure of these houses is built in such a way that the incoming solar radiation from the sun is absorbed by the plants and the soil. The glass inside these green houses is partly opaque. This is because the thermal energy re-radiated by the green houses is trapped inside. The primary heating mechanism of the green house is convection.
There is some heat… Continue reading
A shelter for your chickens- chicken coop
To give chickens, a healthy environment it is very important to keep them in safe and hygienic place, because all are of the opinion that the health of their chicken indirectly affects their own health. And it is true also. Chicken also likes to live in proper, comfortable and ventilated condition. And it becomes even more important if you have a chicken farm or a large number of chickens. To keep chickens in an open area can be quite harmful.
As a novice you should start rearing chickens with small number may be 2 or 3. Rearing chickens at… Continue reading