Always use chicken coop to keep chickens

The basic use of chicken coop is to provide housing to your chickens. In this article we will discuss the main points that we should bear in mind while purchasing coops. The main point among all is the size of the coop and its purpose means why do you want to purchase coop. When you purchase it you always remain confuse about its size because you don’t know that how big coop you need. So the size of your coop depends on the number of hens you have and also on the space that you have in your backyard. Some space should remain free in backyard after keeping coop to let the chickens move freely in open area because it is necessary for hens to move in an open area to keep them healthy and strong.

To regularly maintain and clean the coop is also very necessary. So to choose the coop that is easily to wash and clean is recommended. It should also be easy to keep hens again in it otherwise it will become really difficult task for you to keep hens again in it. Because hens run here and there, so to catch them one by one is very difficult. For cleaning purpose slope floor is considered best. Besides pay attention to the cleaning of coop, all the things inside coop like food and water dishes are also required to be cleaned regularly. Because if the health of coops is good then only you can get desired profit from it and its bad health will affect your health also.

A coop should have proper arrangement of lighting and ventilation. But the hole for ventilation should not be too large otherwise coops will run out of it. And other harmful animals will also enter inside. And lighting will help them in keeping warm also.

To keep the chickens in warm environment is very important because hens are very delicate species can die in even little cold atmosphere.

Another most important thing for coop is hen’s security an safety inside. In fact it is the main reason why we keep hens inside it. Because we can’t keep an eye on our chickens always. For sometime we have to leave them alone. Or it is very important to protect them from predators at this time. So you should always keep the coop very far away fro the reach of the harmful animals that may kill your hens.