A Look At Chicken Coop Designs And Plans

Why would you want to bother yourself with searching for chicken coop designs and plans when you could easily visit your local store to buy a ready made coop? There are three main reasons I would give to answer this question. Firstly, if you buy a ready made chicken coop you are getting someone else's idea with their own personal touches to the finished article. If you build your own coop you can put your own personal touches to it.

Secondly, the price or cost of the project. If you go out to buy a ready made chicken coop you will be looking at paying anything from four hundred to five hundred dollars for the item. Now, if you build your own chicken coop you will save approximately fifty percent of the costs spent on a ready made item. Materials used in the construction of the coop are very cheap and the tools needed to do the job are also very cheap.

The third point is achievement. When you embark on a d.i.y. project yourself there is always a degree of planning and excitement. When you actually finish the project you will gain a strong feeling of achievement at seeing the task through. Once you see your birds inside the coop you will know your hard work was for a very rewarding reason.

Before you choose your chicken coop designs and plans you must have some sort of idea of how many birds you are going to look after. Try your best to find chicken coop plans that suit your needs and the needs of the birds exactly if possible. If you cannot find one that fits exactly then get some that are a little bit bigger - you can always expand the project at a later date if you wish.

Ask yourself a question - 'how big is your garden?' A decent sized chicken coop will take up quite a lot of space in your garden or yard. Does your garden or yard get a fair amount of daylight? Try to build the coop where the garden receives the most amount of light. Chickens a like humans in their day and night cycles, they need plenty of light in the day and they need to sleep at night. Without this cycle the chickens will suffer from low health and egg yield.

Remember, you do not need to be a qualified carpenter to build your own chicken coop. If you find the right chicken coop designs and plans the rest will fall into place. Good luck.