I have one 2 month old chicken who needs a house. I don’t want to buy a 200 dollar one online. What do i do?

We’re into recycling old material for pens, coops and animal housing, and you may have some material right in your garage that could work.

Truck caps make great small, portable coops. You can also use CPVC pipes with connectors and wrap chicken wire around it. If you plan on housing your bird in another building, such as a garage or barn, you can use basic wooden 1×2s to frame it and use hardware mesh or chicken wire for the top and sides. Old screens screwed together at the corners work too (we use these for our chick pens). You really should get some chicken coop plans, however.

You can build anything out of old pallets and chicken wire!

On a side note, get your chicken a couple of friends… they can get very stressed being by themselves, as they are a social animal. Being alone is very unnatural for them, and increases their risk of predation. Even two other pullets around the same age won’t take up much space, and you’ll have happier, healthier birds for it.

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To raise healthy chickens and get good yield of eggs, it is very important that you build a chicken coop that caters to all the needs of your chickens. To build such a coop you need to prepare good chicken coop plans.

There are many websites which sell readymade chicken coop plans for a nominal price. You can also buy a manual or guide which will give you adequate information on preparing chicken coop plans yourself.

Here are a few requirements that an ideal chicken coop plan should meet:
—–  A good chicken coop plan should help you decide where to build a chicken coop. A coop should not be built in a busy place as too much of noise can scare the chickens. It is good to build a coop at a higher place to keep it safe from flooding due to rains or cleaning.
—–  Chickens feel comfortable in a spacious coop. So don’t make the mistake of putting the chickens too close to each other. It will lead to suffocation and will also affect their productivity. It is said that, in an ideal chicken coop plan each bird has 4 square feet of space. If you have four birds then the total space required would be 4’X4’.

You need to have access to the inside of the coop. This is where most of the chicken coop plans fail. You need to enter the coop to feed the chickens, change the water, collect eggs and most importantly to clean it.

—–  A good chicken coop plan should ensure that the coop is kept warm. If you plan to build a coop in a cool climate then it is a good idea to insulate the walls and ceilings. This will keep the coop warm throughout the year.
—–  Your chicken coop plan should have provisions for proper ventilation. It is good, to place windows of the coop facing south as you get cool breeze from the south direction.

Protection of the chickens is very important and a challenging task. Predators like cats, wolf, fox, and rodents eagerly wait for a chance to pounce on your chickens and have a sumptuous meal. A well prepared chicken coop plan will make sure that these predators don’t have a chance to even come near your precious chickens.

Here are a few tips that you can use:
1)      Install locks on the doors and make sure that you keep the coop locked in the night.
2)      Cover the windows with a wire mesh, making sure that there are no openings for the intruders to enter.
3)      Build 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.

Appropriate planning is a extremely important. If you don’t have a chicken coop plan and if you decide to go ahead with building of coop then you will end up spending double the amount. So friends, don’t think twice about investing in a good chicken coop plan because it will reap lot of benefits in the long run.

Coop being built

Free Chicken Coop Report. The report has a lot of  really relevant information for people just starting out or even people that know a lot about chicken coops but need a few tips.

Take a look at someone else building a great portable chicken coop for six laying hens in the backyard of their suburban home in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.  If you are building your first chicken coop it is advised that you get some chicken coop plans to start out.

this video explains how to make a chicken tractor by recycling 4 pallets. If you are wondering what a chicken tractor is you should get this free Chicken Coop Report. It also gives you access to a lovely blog dedicated to a building chicken coops and answering questions that you might have.

I am looking for a cheap chicken coop to house 6-8 laying hens, i have tried ebay but most of them are still very expensive, i need someone that will ship to the scottish islands, any help would be great, thanksxx

I am planning to build a chicken coop (poultry house) for chickens, guinea fowl and turkeys. I am thinking of 20 – 30 birds. They’ll have a huge place to roam, there is a huge piece of grassland…So I need a coop where they can sleep, lay their eggs and shelter for rain. In my area it’s quite hot, never gets below 15C. Max temp 35C. thanks

Farmer Brown and Susie are at it again, this time they are demonstrating how to build a chicken shelter with materials from…out in the yard.
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