The ABC of Wooden Chicken Coop

Do you know the wooden chicken coop is best of all? In tropical countries, the chicken coops are made out of stones and sand. This is not good for temperate and cool countries. The wooden chicken coop is the most perfect one for your young chickens.

How To Build Wooden Chicken Coop?

Before building wooden chicken coop, you should know about the size of the coop. If you are going to rear large number of chickens, you need a bigger wooden chicken coop. The major problem with the newbies are they will start with a smaller coop. But the number of chickens will be increased in due course, which will make them to dismantle the current one to switch over to bigger coops. So you should make up your mind to build a larger chicken coops.

Types of Wooden Chicken Coops

At present there are three types of chicken coops. They are-

1. Small and Portable
2. Medium Sized Coop
3. Premium Sized Coop

1. Small and Portable Chicken Coops

This is nothing but a small and simple cage with three sides. This will be perfect gift for the kid who is going to raise 2-3 chickens. But this coop is not a healthy one as the inhabitants will suffer from different diseases due to poor ventilation.

2. Medium Sized Coop

The main advantage of this coop is its portability. This is more or less a cage type of housing for chickens. More over this type is more friendlier to the birds and also help them to produce more eggs than the previous one.

3. Premium Sized wooden Chicken Coop

If you're intended to raise chickens for years together, this is a perfect fit. This is nothing but a huge chicken house with good ventilation for the wellbeing of the birds. You can place required quantity of nest boxes to collect clean and healthy eggs.

So, it is your decision to choose which type of wooden chicken coop for the birds of your preference. Happy Cooping!!!

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Chicken Feeders and Waterer's In a Chicken Coop

So, you have decided to build your own chicken coop. Then, this is the high time to get to know about the details of feeders and waterer's in your chicken coop. If you decided the correct size and device for watering and feeding, you can save more time during the day to feed your chickens.

If you want to keep your chicken flock healthy and happy, you should keep the feeding troughs of your chicken coop clean and filled with their favorite foods. If you haven't provide proper feed and water, your chicken would be skinny and bony.

Placement

The chicken waterer's and feeders should be placed conveniently inside the chicken coop for easy access. Moreover, you should place required number of feeders and waterer's to avoid overcrowding of chickens around them. Both the feeders and waterer's should be hung at the average chicken's height in order to avoid wastage as well as preventing them to get dirt. Just make sure to keep the waterer's full of fresh clean water throughout the day.

Chickens are not aware of dirt water or feed. They will consume the contaminated water and feed and will loose their life without giving any output. So you should learn how to place the waterer's and feeders in a recently build chicken coop.

The water and feed should be positioned away from the perch in order to avoid contamination. You can also get DIY water and feeder at the click of the mouse. Yes!!! These are available online also!

If you want a home-made waterer's, you can modify a plastic bucket of 5 gallons capacity to hang them from the top. This is cheap and best for chicken at chicken coop. I have posted the pictures of home made waterer's and feeders below for your easy reference.

If you're going to build your own chicken coop, make sure how you're going to feed and provide water to your chickens. Happy Cooping!!!

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Chicken Coop- A perfect Business for Home makers?

Nowadays most of us feel so difficult to run our family within your household budget, which is mainly due to skyrocketing price of the ordinary items- pulses to sugar. This is the high time to start a part time business to meet out our demands. I discussed this matter with my office friend. He only suggested building chicken coop and start raising chickens.

Benefits Of Building Chicken Coop

• You can get fresh eggs not only for your family, but also you can sell them the same to the nearby shops
• Chickens eat a lot, and are constantly on the prowl for weeds, bugs, slugs, and other tiny critters to snack on
• Composted chicken manure is a perfect gift to both flower beds as well as vegetable garden
• Releasing them during the day time will help you to get the soil being stirred well

If your wife is a perfect home maker, you can ask her to look after this chickens with chicken coop to reap the benefits of chickens as well as you can start building your own vegetable garden to get fresh vegetable for your home using the chicken manure. I have started this part-time business along with my wife. Your wife will also be very happy because she also wanted to do some part time business. Still, why are you waiting? Discuss this matter with your wife to reap the benefits of raising chickens in chicken coop.

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At what age, you can let off chicken from the coop?

Still, some of the chicken raisers are having the habit of releasing their chicken out of the coop in the early morning to graze in their garden and made them to come back before night on its own to the coop. If you're not aware of this procedure, most of the Indian farmers are practicing this method of chicken rearing.

But you should know at what age do chickens have to be before you can let them roam freely and they’ll return to the coop at night.

Generally you can practice this method from the age of 3-4 weeks. Beware!!! You should not practice this method, if you are having wild animals in your area. Don't think that wildlife will not take hens during daylight! So an eye on them during day time also!


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Chicken Coop Building Ideas

Chicken coop building ideas are necessary to build a chicken coop that serves to all the needs of your chicken. In order to raise healthy chickens that in turn yields to get healthy eggs. By doing so we can not only raise healthy chickens that in turn yields to good eggs while we can save a lot of time and money too.

Here are few requirements for an ideal chicken coop idea should meet:

A good chicken coop should ensure that the coop is kept warm, with proper ventilation. If you plan to build a coop during winter then the best idea would be to insulate the walls and ceiling of the chicken coop. They will keep the coop warm throughout the year.

For proper ventilation it is advised to place windows of the coop facing south so as get cool breeze from the south direction.

A good chicken coop should be built at a higher place to keep it safe from flooding due to rains or not to be disturbed while cleaning. And also the chicken coop should not be built in a busy as that would scare the chickens.

A good chicken coop must be built in a wider area so that the chickens feel comfortable in a spacious coop. Don't make mistake of loading the chicken in a smaller area such that the chickens are too close to each other that in turn will lead to suffocation and will also affect their productivity. It is said that, in an ideal chicken coop plan each chicken has 4 square feet of space. For example if you have four chickens then the total space required would be 4'X4'. It is also important to ensure that you have an access inside of the chicken coop. This is where most of the coop plans fail.

You need to enter the coop on a daily basis to feed the chickens, change the water,
collect eggs and most importantly to clean it.

The most important and the challenging task is protection of the chickens. Predators like rodents, cats, fox, and wolf eagerly wait for a chance to pounce on your chickens and have a stupendous meal. A well protected chicken coop will make sure that these predators don't have a chance to even come near your precious chickens.

To have protected chicken coop install locks on the doors and make sure that you keep the coop locked during the night. Cover the ventilation with a wire mesh, making sure that there are no opening for the intruders to enter. Put a fence around the coop with at least 12 inches underneath the ground and 4 ft above the ground so that there is no entrance for the predators.

So friends if you are building your own chicken coop then it is best to work chicken coop plans rather than making it up as you go which will end up spending up double the amount. So think twice about investing in a good chicken coop as it will reap lot of benefits in the long run.

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Dog Family Members That Are Top Chicken Coop Predators

Do you know there are only three breeds of dog that are top chicken coop predators? Yes!!! Chicken coop predators are the most problematic thing for the chicken coop owners. You should know what dog predators you have in your community. The top chicken coop predator breeds of dog are

1. Fox

2. Coyote

3. Domestic dogs of Neighbors

Instead of shooting these predators, provide a trap or keep the coop coyote-proof. Try to build the coop with solid wood because these predators can bite and break the wood to gain entry into the coop to prey the chickens.

Coyote will try to dig hole in the outside area of the coop and try to capture the chicken inside the coop by opening the hole inside the coop. Hence the flooring should be concrete to prevent the burrowing of the floor. More over, if there are any holes inside the hole try to seal the holes with necessary material to prevent the entry of these dreadful chicken coop predators. Happy Cooping!!!

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Things To Think Before Building Chicken Coop Nesting Boxes

Commercially there are many chicken coop nesting boxes existing in the shopping complexes. These boxes are available in different sizes and forms. Do you know you can save few bucks, if you build a nesting box on your own? Yes!!! Ready made chicken coop nesting boxes are costly. More over, they are available as scrub. You need to assemble them. so instead of buying them, you can obtain the materials for building the nesting boxes at much cheap price or at free of cost.

Chicken nest boxes should be designed in such a way that no chicken can perch above the box. This is because, if a chicken ride on the box, it will soil both the nesting boxes as well as the eggs with its droppings. Most of us think that a nesting box is a safe and comfortable place for chicken to lay eggs. It is not so! It should be a clean place for the chickens to sit and lay eggs.

Before building the nesting boxes for chicken coops, you should provide perches for them to use. The perches should be 19 to 25 inches above the ground. Even you can use more than one perch, which resembles a ladder or a stair to give room for more space for the chickens to move.

Nesting Box Sizes

A perfect dimension for a chicken coop nesting box is 12 inches tall, 12 inches deep, and 12 inches wide, which will be able to house 3-5 hens at a point of time.

You should provide various nesting materials ranging from straw, shredded paper or wood shavings inside the nest box to harvest clean and untidy eggs. The nesting box should be kept in a secluded place within a coop with an idea of giving some shade and dark space for the hens to feel comfortable and safe.

Chicken coop nesting box is an important chicken coop kit for better egg production from you back yard chicken. Good plan for nesting is essential as it will increase the efficiency and productivity of the business. Even you can ask your children to get participated in the activity of chicken coop plan building to bring them up as a person with more social interaction. Happy chicken cooping!!!

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