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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 →

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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

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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)
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Valuable Benefits of Raising Free-Range Chickens That Everyone Should Know

Did you know that eggs from free-range chickens are up to twice as rich in vitamin E, two to six times richer in vitamin A (beta carotene), contain less saturated fat and are four times richer in omega-3 fatty acids? In addition, free range eggs may contain 1/3 less cholesterol as confinement-system eggs sold in the super market!

Not only are pastured eggs nutritionally superior to those sold commercially in the supermarket, the free-range egg is larger and better tasting. So when eating a free-range egg you will notice a richer yolk that is orange in color and… Continue reading →

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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 →

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Choosing The Best Chicken Coop Design

As you may have already noticed, there is a new trend that is happening around North American neighborhoods like never before. More and more city people are raising their own chickens. Just like others, perhaps it is crossed your mind as well. If that’s the case, then choosing the best plans for chicken coops is extremely important, prior to buying any fowl.

This is in fact going to be their dwelling. In addition to that, it is where your fresh and organic eggs will be and exactly where you’re going to have to go to get them. So, the chicken… Continue reading →

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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.

 

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