If you’ve got or are planning to get chickens and want to save some money, you’re probably thinking about building your own coop. But if you’re like most of us you’re just a home handyman without much building experience. Therefore, plans for easy to build chicken coops are vital.

There are many factors to good chicken coop design and construction. You need to consider the best size of the coop for the number of chickens you have, you need to provide shelter as well as protection from predators, there needs to be adequate lighting and the right number of feeders.

The problem is that many of the plans for chicken coops in the marketplace assume you’re as good as a qualified builder and know everything about carpentry and optimal chicken house construction. But by the same token there are plans available that know most of us are home handymen and cater their designs accordingly.

A good design and construction plan will take the time to break the chicken coop building process into simple steps. For starters, it will outline exactly the materials and tools you’ll need to complete the job and where you can find them. It will then provide the precise dimensions you’ll need to fit your space and cater for the number of chickens you have, and break down the building of the coop into a step-by-step guide, almost like baking a cake! A good plan will also be simple construction wise, which is important, because you’re only building a chicken coop and not a five star luxury chicken day spa.

Some of the designs and plans for easy to build chicken coops can be found here.

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