Easy Chicken House Plans

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Who Me - Build A Chicken Coop?

Who me - build a chicken coop and raise chickens?  Chickens can be raised in your backyard and many consider them excellent pets and as a bonus they keep your yard trimmed, you get fresh eggs, and they fertilize as they go.

If you are raising chickens or thinking of raising chickens then you either need to learn how to build a chicken coop or look for Chicken Coops For Sale - because no matter what you need a great chicken house that provides the right environment for your chickens to lay.  Do you know that if you build your own chicken coop you can save a bundle and have a better chicken house in the process?

Isn't it cool that raising chickens takes so little resources?  There is a reason why the term "chicken feed" is in our language meaning something very inexpensive.  Certainly that can be true if you are going to build a chicken coop.  Chicken coops are responsible for the safety and environment for your chickens.  The right chicken house will maximize the number of eggs that your chickens lay.

A healthy chicken will lay five or more eggs a week but this is affected by heat, cold, rain, and other environmental conditions.  Your chicken house must be able to create the best environment possible in each of these cases.  A house with sliding doors and windows is a great benefit when it's hot.  And of course you need a house that will keep your chickens and their bedding dry when it rains.  All of these factors must be considered when selecting plans.  With the right plans you are assured a good egg yield and healthy chickens.

All the benefits of raising chickens and some great pets too.  We don't think of chickens that way but many people come to love them.

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Sneezing Chickens ?

We have some ex-battery hens, have had them for about a month and today when I was out there with them I noticed 2 of them are sneezing. Incidently it is the ones with the most feather loss from their time in the battery cages, and I wonder if they have caught colds....

It's not unusual for chickens to get a cold in the winter months, particularly if they've come from the background that they have.

Chickens can however just sneeze if something goes up the nostrils like food etc.

You can tell if you're chicken has a cold by checking around her eyes, beak and nostrils. If there's any discharge she may have a cold. If you hear her wheezing or if she sounds like she's got a rattly chest then a dose of antibiotics may be required.

Adding citricidal to the drinking water for a period of 3 days can help clear colds. After the 3 days and she's not clear of the cold, omit the Citricidal for a further 3 days and then go back on for another 3. You can get citricidal from health food and livestock stores, it's just grapefruit extract.

Garlic powder added to their feed will also help fight any cold infection.

Make sure that the coop they're in isn't dusty as chickens have delicate respiratory systems. Straw isn't a good bedding to opt for as parasites love to hide and breed in it. Paper is also a risk as chickens can eat it. I'd opt for wood shavings and use hemcore or aubiose in the nest boxes which you can get from most livestock/equestrian stores and online.

Check out his site if you need any more info on looking after chickens, it's a great resource!

http://www.henkeeping.co.uk

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