Building a Chicken Coop – My Opinion

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Chris Leave a comment

 

 

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With the combination of the economy being in a constant state of flux and the current push to go organic for health benefits, many people are looking for ways to cut expenses and eat healthier.  Surprisingly, there is an easy way to do this and that is by building a chicken coop.  While it may sound odd at first, let’s take a brief look at the benefits of chicken coop building.

Benefits of Building A Chicken Coop

  • Provides you and your family with daily fresh organic eggs
  • Recycles your family’s food scraps
  • Produces high quality fertilizer for your garden that ensures top quality, organic plants and vegetables

So as you can see, by building your own backyard chicken coop, you are essentially creating a natural cycle for your own personal ecosystem by having a place to dispose of scraps which produces food to feed your family (eggs) and fertilizer to grow more food which you can feed to the chickens, which feeds your family…etc.  You get the picture!

Is Building Your Own Chicken Coop Hard?

Not at all.  While doing research into why you should build your own chicken coop, I found detractors stating that working out the dimensions, buying the materials, providing proper insulation, ventilation and lighting, positioning the nests and perches, waste collection and protection from the elements was all too hard.  But what I actually found is that it is far cheaper and easier to learn how to build your own chicken coop and then do so with just one simple instructional guide.

The Best Guide To Building Your Own Chicken Coop

What we came across was a revolutionary, step-by-step guide that not only tells you how to build a chicken coop, but how to have fun doing it as well.  Penned by Bill Keane, a man with many years of experience in the poultry industry, “Building A Chicken Coop” is designed as a beginner’s guide to chicken coop building which means you don’t need any prior carpentry skills.

Because of the easy layout, the step-by-step instructions and the 3-D guided videos, it makes no difference on whether you want to learn how to build a large chicken coop, just want to construct a small chicken coop and regardless of budget; “Building A Chicken Coop” has exactly what you are looking for, guaranteed.

Click here to visit Bill Keene´s Building a Chicken Coop Official Website

Why Using How To Build Your Own Chicken Coop Is So Easy

  • No special tools are required -  Nothing but the simplest of tools are necessary with these instructions
  • Comprehensive, Easy To Build Chicken Coop Plans – With color step-by-step plans and scale diagrams and dimensions, even the kids can help plan your chicken coop and build it.  A fun family project that teaches about our ecosystem, sustainability, living off the land and do-it-yourself carpentry
  • Save Money – Building your own chicken coop with this guide save the average user up to 50% when compared to buying a pre-fabricated chicken coop.  This means hundreds, even thousands of extra dollars in savings!
  • Print Whenever, Wherever – Since the “Building A Chicken Coop” guide is fully accessible and downloadable, you have an unlimited source for plans meaning you can print as many copies as you want for whomever you want for however long you want!

What You Learn

Here is a brief taste on what you learn with “Building A Chicken Coop”:

  • How to pick the correct breed of chicken for your needs
  • How to breed chickens for a self-sustaining flock
  • How to build a large coop for fifty chickens or a small one for four
  • Tips on set-up and material selection
  • How to build a chicken coop on a budget
  • Tips on flooring and roofing
  • How to make your chicken coop free-range easily
  • How to design your coop to keep chickens warm even in cold climates
  • Monthly and yearly chores that keep your chickens healthy and happy
  • How to protect your coop from predators

Build Your Own Chicken Coop Today

So, if you’re looking to save money and go green, try this fabulous guide on how to build your own chicken coop today.  Click here to got to Bill Keene´s Building a Chicken Coop Website and try his book risk free for  60 days.

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Building a Chicken Coop – Video

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Chris 1 Comment

Today I made a big learning process. Do you guys want to know why? Well because I created my first video and I have to tell you that I am really proud of it. Yesterday I thought I need a video for my website so I started to collect a few informations about how to create a video. The topic for my video is building a chicken coop but that is nothing unexpected I guess.

I started to play around with a few programs and finally a few hours later it was done. I uploaded it to youtube and now I want to present it to you. Leave a comment and let me know what you think about the video.

The video explains on how to build a chicken coop. I used a podcast from the famous Bill Kenne who wrote the book with the title “Building a Chicken Coop”. So it is not my voice in the video. You can watch the video here:

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How to build a chicken coop

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Chris 2 Comments

Build a chicken coop

build a chicken coopFirst of all it is important to survey the area where the chicken coop will be. Also one of the first things is to decide if the backyard chicken coop should be portable, semi-permanent or fixed. These two things are the first things we have to do every time before we start building a chicken coop.

Why this is so important? Well imagine you want to build the best chicken coop ever and after all the hard work is done the coop is on the wrong place and you want it about 6-8meters to your left. If you made a fixed coop you will have a problem by now.

The backyard chicken coop is where the chickens will eat and sleep. They also lay their eggs there so it is important to provide them with the best available comfort. It is also advisable that you keep your chickens safe from potential predators. Such a coop will be the best thing to protect them.

If you don´t have the time to build your own chicken coop you can go and buy a pre-made one but please believe me when I say that there is nothing better than to see how your chickens like the selfmade home you made for them. A pre-made chicken coop is expensive and you can build your own within a few hours.

Chicken coops plans

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1. Choose the right design and plan:
It is advisable that you choose the right design before your start to work on your coop. There are hundreds of chicken coops plans on the WWW! Make sure that you choose the right one for you.

2. Position of the coop:
When you decide to build a semi-permanent or a fixed chicken coop please make sure that you use the right place for it. The area should have the right amount of sunlight and the area should not be directly in the direction of the wind.

3. Others:
To make the building phase a lot easier you have to consider the following two things:

  • a. Start to build the next boxes at the same time you build the chicken coop. This will save you a lot of time.
  • b. Plan on four heads of chicken per feeder and waterer

Buying construction materials

As soon as you decided which chicken coop you want to build (I guess you already choose a plan from the hundreds of different chicken coop plans) you can go and buy the construction materials. If you want to save some money you can go and get your building supplies from second hand shops. Believe me that sometimes you will find really good material there. If you don´t want to save money than just go and buy everything where you prefer to buy. I have another tip for you:

  • Double (or even triple) the size of your current chicken coop you want to build. Why? Believe me when I say that you will have more chickens within the next 2-3 years. If you build a bigger chicken coop at the beginning you will have less work in the next years.

This is up to you. It is just a tip from me because I had to re-build everything 2 years later. Anyway let´s continue. Let´s say you forgot nothing than you are ready to start right now.

Ready, Set, Build a chicken coop

It is not very difficult to build a chicken coop. Once you have your materials and your plan you can start with the work. Be sure that you follow every step on your plan! If you make something wrong fix it as soon as possible. When it is too late you will have a problem. Be sure that you clean all the pieces of wood, cut them to the right size based on the dimensions on your chicken coop plan and don´t start with the windows and doors. This should be the last ones you care about.

When you are done I would love it if you can send me a picture from your chicken coop.  Last but not least I will show you a picture of my chicken coop I am planning to build right now. What do you think about it?:

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building a chicken coop

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Chris 1 Comment

I was looking around the WWW and found a great article about building a chicken coop and I thought it would come across useful to my visitors. This article is published on eHow and you can find it when you search after How to Build a Chicken Coop!

The article was published by an eHow contributor and he describes the method in less than 15 steps. It is easy to understand and I really like the tips & warnings section at the bottom. The author posted two tips and one very useful warning there. When I built my first chicken coop I would have needed such an article.

You can check out the article here, I really recommend this article to everyone who needs some basics about building a chicken coop, check the article out here.

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