Chicken Coop Cleaning
Chicken Coop Cleaning
Chicken Coop Cleaning
Nowadays, pursuit of health has become an unshakable faith. Healthy diet is certainly a key part in a healthy life style, which means you need to eat the right food. So it is not a surprise if you want to keep away from buying eggs full of antibiotics and to build your own chicken coop.
Have a flock in your backyard, try a little villeggiatura and enjoy green and safe eggs everyday, isn't it sounds lovely? Before starting the project, it is important to make a plan first. Here are the things you need to take into your consideration: budget, location, size, light, ventilation and predator. Let's talk about these one by one.
Budget, this is the key factor of your whole plan. How much can you spend on the chicken coop may decide whether your plan can be accomplished eventually. After all, this is building a chicken coop is meant to color your life, not to influence it. What's more, there is another part in the budget, time. How many hours can you spend on building the coop, maintaining and cleanning it every week ? These two answers are things you should find out at the very beginning.
Location and size, I want to talk about these two points together, since they are deeply connected. Chickens need spaces to make a comfortable and happy lives, thus, they can lay eggs regularly. Find out a place level and won't have flooding in rainy days in your backyard, and measure it. Most likely it will be the place to build your coop. Generally, each chicken needs 4-5 quare feet inside the coop for optimal health, egg production and individual space. With the size of the space and the flock you want to have, you can decide to build a small coop or a large one.
Chicken is the kind of animal which is very loyal and dependent on sun. The sunrise makes, the sunset but the rest. Make sure your chickens get enough sunshine to keep them healthy. Several windows facing the sun will solve the problem perfectly.
Ventilation becomes especially important if your coop is in a damp place or just in summer. After rain, good ventilation will helps to dry the coop in a short time. And in summer, cool wind is really nice for the chickens. Still, window is the best way to have good ventilation.
The last but definitley not the least, predator. Predators can attack your chickens from sky, ground and under ground. To protect your chickens from top, fences in firm material will work. So as to predators coming from ground. If your enemies come from under ground, your fences should be there too, at least a feet down.
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Building A Chicken Coop Complaints
I want my own chicken coop. How do I do this?
I have been looking around online to try and figure out the important stuff about raising chickens but there are some specific questions I have that need answers.
I understand the coop, the food and all that.
1)in cold winters do I need to provide heat bulbs in the coop?
2)for a 1st times how many chickens/roosters shall I start with?
3) when I let them out to graze in the afternoon will they come back??
4) How many eggs can one hen produce and how often do they lay them?
5) what do I do with the frsh eggs? Just take em inside and use them? Or shall I let some hatch?
6) If I let them hatch is there any special care I have to give that the mother wont? (besides food)
7) Is it really a ton of work? Do you clean their poop daily or bi-weekly- or what??
If you can answer any of these q's Id be very happy.
1. You may not need heat it if is free of drafts and covered from wet. Light is more important for laying hens- they need at least 12 hours of light or they may stop laying.
2. Depends on what you want. Eggs for your family? Three or four hens is plenty. No more than one rooster.
3. If you let them get used to the chickenhouse first so they see it as "home", they should return each night. And they don't graze. Graze means eating grass. They eat the bugs in the grass.
4. Depends on the breed. Really good layers can give you 5 or even 6 a week. They never lay more than one a day.
5. Whatever you want. Eat 'em, sell 'em, hatch 'em.
6. It depends on how you hatch them. A lot of chicken breeds no longer go "broody", meaning hatch their own eggs. You may need an incubator. The mother will need a separate nest away from the others, and you have to leave all the eggs she lays in it.
7. It will depend on the coop. I know one family who has medium sized coops and never cleans it- but I wouldn't recommend that option. You can lay down straw or hay if you want, pile on clean stuff over the old stuff, and clean it all out only once a year. Or you can clean biweekly or monthly and not have such a big job to do in the spring.
By the way, the breed I'd suggest is the buff orpington. They are fairly common, your feed store may stock them. They are also pretty good layers, and they are especially fluffy so they'll do better in winter. Some even keep laying all winter. They do sometimes go broody too, though not as much as a silkie or something.
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