Your Very Own Chicken Coop

Learn How To Raise Your Own Chickens

Equip Your Coop With Chicken Laying Boxes : laying chickens

This may surprise you, but chickens behave a lot like humans. As humans, we like to compartmentalize our life. We prefer to eat in one place, sleep in another, and play in another. Chickens prefer the same type of atmosphere, and also prefer clean living spaces. Remember this when you are constructing your chicken laying boxes.

Laying, or nesting boxes are where your hens will deposit their eggs. In the wild, hens like to have a lot of padding, and a clean, dry place to lay, so you should strive for this when constructing your boxes for your hens. Hens… Continue reading

Discover The Best Laying Chickens Breeds

Chickens are used for so many different reasons. Some people choose to raise a flock based on the look of the bird, in order to show them in competitions. Others raise birds as pets. More commonly, people raise chickens for the meat and eggs they can provide for their family. Before you buy a flock of chickens, and make plans to build a chicken coop, you should decide exactly what you are going to raise a flock for. Be clear in your expectations regarding chickens in order to have a successful flock that is happy and healthy.

Laying chickens breeds… Continue reading

Poultry Housing Building Tips to Help You Have Success

Many people think going about the process to build poultry housing is quite complicated and will take days if not weeks to complete. This is not the case at all. If you have a good poultry housing building plan in front of you, you can easily completely the process over the course of a weekend almost entirely for free.

The end result of doing so is that you will then get fresh eggs every single morning on a regular basis. Most people really like the sound of that, so let’s quickly go over a few tips you must know to… Continue reading

Chicken Breeds for Chicken Runs and Coops

In this chicken runs and coops article I would like to share some observations I made on the different varieties of hens I keep in my chicken runs and coops. They all have unique traits within their separate varieties.

Observation was done over a period of a week in the morning, noon, and evening. I observed the hens for about one hour each observation period to check for temperaments to see if they were friendly, skittish, noisy, aggressive, or docile. And in the evening observation I made sure to concentrate on the hen house coop area as well as the… Continue reading

Build a Chicken House

Want to build a chicken house for your chickens but you don’t know how to do this? Well…Basically you’ve got 2 ways to do this. You either let a certified company build a chicken coop for your chickens, or you will actually do it all by yourself.

Build a chicken house by a certified company?

What you could do is that you let a company build a chicken coop for you. Although, this may sound like a great option, and it is… But it’s also very expensive.

You see, when you do this, you don’t have to pay only for… Continue reading

Hen House Plans – Build a Chicken Coop With a Plan?

Want to build a coop for your hen all by yourself? It might be useful to use a hen house plan for this. It’s a great help out tool to get yourself started. Let’s me give you some explanation on this.

Build a hen coop myself with a house plan?

So you are interested in such plans, right? Else you wouldn’t be here. The great thing about having a plan is that it will give you step by step instructions. But that’s not all. It will also give you detailed photo’s so you will be able to build a coop… Continue reading

Chicken Coop

There are many reasons one would decide to build a chicken coop for their property. One of the first things that need to be considered is for those in an urban area is whether there is an existing zoning law against erecting one. If a zoning law is in place and you still wish to proceed your first step would be to acquire enough signatures from your neighbors to give the local zoning board a reason to grant you a waver on the established law. Some things that might help in persuading your neighbors would be a chicken barbecue and… Continue reading