Do You Want The Best Chicken Coop Plans?
Article by Kieran Gracie
There are many offers of chicken coop plans online, but which of these will result in a good-quality working chicken house? If you are already familiar with keeping poultry, are good at preplanning, drawing your own blueprints from basic plans or sketches, generating a comprehensive materials list before starting to assemble your chicken coop, as well as being an experienced woodworker, then you will probably manage with any type of chicken coop plans you unearth.
Alternatively you might waste a lot of time, energy and money, and you could end up building a chicken house that proved to be a very unhappy and unsafe environment for your birds. Careful, accurate planning and proper blueprints are essential to making a good chicken coop.
As a minimum you should include the following in your planning:
– Selecting a suitable site for the chicken coop in your yard or garden
– Calculating the correct size of chicken coop for the number of hens
– Ensuring proper lighting and ventilation for the birds
– Choosing the layout and type of feeders and nesting boxes
– Designing adequate protection from predators
– Considering the need for electrical or water supplies to the chicken coop
To do this planning well, most people will need input and guidance from expert chicken coop designers, and will rely on accurate blueprints rather than sketchy plans and vague diagrams to make a proper hen house. Without such blueprints there is a good chance you will not achieve a good functional chicken coop, it might not be sufficiently strong and it might give ready access for predators.
If you take a casual approach to chicken coop plans you will end up wasting both time and money, your enthusiasm will take a dive and – maybe the most important – you will not enjoy the experience as much as you should. In addition, unhappy or unhealthy hens do not lay weel, so you will be denied those lovely free-range eggs you had so eagerly anticipated.
Before starting to make the chicken coop you will need to prepare a comprehensive list of materials needed for the job. This is vital, otherwise you will have problems during assembly when you find you have left out some bracket or other and the local hardware shop has already closed! It is not easy to put together a comprehensive list of all necessary materials, and we really recommend that you let a chicken coop expert do it on your behalf.
It is so easy to make mistakes without this expert input. Often these mistakes will not become obvious until you have finished, and by then it could be too late to sort out any problems.
It is certainly sensible to invest in good-quality chicken coop plans, and usually these come with the step-by-step instructions provided in top-quality chicken coop planning kits. We have discovered that good blueprints and clear instructions actually save money and time in the long run.
We have found and strongly recommend a very experienced chicken expert, Bill Keene, to help you with your chicken coop design and build. Bill has put together an extensive range of chicken coop plans, including the all-important step-by-step instructions, lists of materials and professional advice for you to plan and make a hen house that will be exactly the way you wanted it.
He will help you to avoid the frustrations and pitfalls often made by first-time builders, and also show you how to produce a happy, safe and healthy living area for your hens. Bill Keene is the best source of good plans for making a wonderful chicken coop.
We wish you lots of luck with your hen house
About the Author
Kieran Gracie has developed a website, buildthingsdirect.com, dedicated to providing information, advice and help for exciting and easy-to-do projects in your garden or backyard. These include sheds, chicken coops, log cabins, solar panels, solar water heaters and wind turbines.
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