Building your own chicken coop in the backyards of your house is quite a good investment to make because firstly it will produce you fresh eggs everyday depending on the number of chickens you can afford and secondly it will make you feel good because it is something which you are making on your own instead of getting one from the market. Also the idea of building your own personal chicken coop is quite economical because you get the work done in less than half amount spent on buying a chicken coop from the market. Those chicken coops are manually made as well. So why go for buying someone else’s work when you can do the job yourself, provided you have some amount of free time to do the job. However another important thing is that it’s not just a matter of hammering or joining mess. Several simple aspects have to be kept in mind for the job. Just follow the step by step approach given here and it is guaranteed that you will end up building a nice cozy chicken coop.
The first and foremost thing to start any job is to make an idea of what are you going to do. So just take a pencil and a paper and make out a layout of your dream chicken coop. Be careful of the colors you are going to use for the job. The chicken coop should not be a distracting element for the neighbors, so design it carefully and aesthetically. You have to make appropriate decisions on your own on the subjects like the resource in your hands and how much quality product you want to make. Special emphasis on smaller things like which building material are you going to use, so that the labor of cleaning becomes reduced in future. Also decide about doors and windows, whether they will open inwards or outwards. It is always recommended to make the windows sliding. And an important trick mostly used by many is that make the floor sloped towards the door so that when you spray water it will automatically clean the floor reducing your cleaning labor.
You also will definitely want to protect your chickens from bad weather as well as from hungry animals. Close the exit and entry points during bad weather and for protecting your chickens from predators, just bury your outside runs round the coop, about one foot deep so that cats or dogs cannot dig it underneath. It is highly required to provide a light source for the colder months and proper ventilation in the hot season. So just make the chicken coop window facing southwards to receive direct sunlight. You can also go for electric lighting with one light on the ceiling. The last step to give a final touch to your chicken coop is to make the chicken happy. The chickens should be comfortable in having access to the feeds without messing up with it. The recommended way of placing the chicken feeders are to place them at a height so that the chickens can extend their neck and eat the stuff but their legs should not reach up to mess it up.
Follow these simple steps and get assured; your chickens will get a very good and safe home to stay in.
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