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Designing Backyard Chicken Coops
When designing backyard chicken coops, there are several considerations. Are you intending to breed chickens for your own use only? Are you intending to sell chickens and eggs to others? How much space do you have to work with? How much can you spend? Your answers will determine the required sizes of any backyard coops. Coops will suit small breeders who intend to raise only a few chickens and have limited space, whereas medium coops can be used to conduct business with more chickens. Backyard chicken coops may or may not be appropriate for larger serious businesses; you will need… Continue reading
Selecting Portable Chicken Coops
When permanent chicken coop structures are not desirable, and when allowing chickens to roam freely is not an option due to your property size, portable chicken coops may be the answer. A growing number of people these days, some even in urban areas, are beginning to breed their own chicken broods in order to produce healthy eggs for their families. Coops allow such families to get into chicken breeding easily and cost-effectively.
Breeders must select whether they will build the coops themselves, or if they will purchase kits or even pre-fabricated coops. Generally speaking, portable coops should be kept extremely… Continue reading
Simple Plans and Designs For Chicken Coops
If you’ve decided to build your own chicken coop to save money and to customise it to the particular space you have – good thinking! But there’s plenty you need to consider when looking for designs for chicken coops.
For starters, you need to take into account how many chickens you currently have or plan to have in future. You don’t want to spend money building a chicken coop for 4 chickens only to have to build another one when you decide that 8 chickens better matches your needs.
You also need to work out whether the area you intend… Continue reading
Plans For Chicken Coops – Important Basics That Save You Money
You’re thinking about keeping backyard fowl? I have to say I think that’s a tremendous notion. But where to start? Number one job on your list – except getting those delightful birds of course – is to search for plans for chickens coops that match your ideas. The vital question is, what exactly are those requirements?
Are you after birds for fun in a small area? Do you want just a few eggs a day for you and your other half? Or enough for a family? Do you think you might want to get a couple of different varieties of… Continue reading
Top Tips For Choosing Plans For Chicken Coops
There are many things to think about when you are choosing chicken coop plans and if you are just starting out you might find it difficult to know which design features are important. In this article I will outline for you the three features I think are most important for keeping your chickens warm, safe and content. Make sure these are all included in your chicken coop plans and you won’t go far wrong.
Provide Plenty Of Space
In order for your birds to be happy as well as productive, you need to allow plenty of space for them inside… Continue reading
Chicken Runs and Coops – A Simple Guide
Despite what you might be thinking, both chicken runs and coops can be built with ease. Some people have this idea in their head that it takes some sort of genius to build their own chicken coop, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Due to all the resources that are available on the Internet, the complete novice can have their chicken run and coop built in just a few days. Seriously. If I can do it, I’m sure anyone in the world can.
Before we get into the heart of the content where I tell you what resources… Continue reading
A Plan For Building Chicken Coops : plans for chicken coop
At first, building chicken coops seems like a very daunting task. It doesn’t have to be that way if you start with a plan. I know we have all heard of breaking a big task down into bite sized chunks.
Well, let’s do that!
The first step is to figure out how big you need your chicken coop to be. Will you just raise a couple of chickens for the eggs or are you going to want to grow your brood over time? When building chicken coops this is an important factor. If you just want to raise a few… Continue reading