Easy Chicken House Plans

Chicken Coop Waterer

If you are building or have built your own chicken house, it is so important that it meets the needs of your chickens to enable them to be happy and contented, staying in fine physical shape. Here are some important facts you should take into consideration.

(1) - You must make sure your chicken house is predator-proof from all sides. Make sure you have the correct size of wire mesh protecting all openings. 15mm square is good, preventing predators from reaching inside the house.

(2) - The area surrounding your chicken house also needs protection. You need wire mesh fencing with the base buried at least 30cm below ground level. This will especially help against rats that will easily be drawn towards your chickens' droppings and it will help prevent foxes and other predators from burrowing into the chickens' area.

(3) - Make sure your chickens have roosting poles as this is where they sleep and provide enough room so that they're not crowded too close together.

(4) - Your chicken house will need a waterer and feeder, and you will need to place a nest box per 4 or 5 birds in a dark corner. This helps to encourage the chickens to lay eggs.

(5) - To enable easy removal of your chickens' droppings, put a removable plastic tray underneath the roosting poles.

(6) - Ventilation is important. Your chicken house will need good ventilation, but make sure there is no direct flow of air. Although chickens can cope with cold weather, you must ensure they are kept out of any direct wind.

If you are even thinking about erecting your own chicken house and are interested in a new up-to-date, step-by-step guide on how to build one, click here How To Erect A Chicken House For a guide on raising and caring for your very own free range chicks, click here Caring For Baby Chicks

question? please help??!! 10 points to best answer!?

you don't have to answer all of my questions, but I have some chicken questions. I am going to be a beginner chicken owner, and I have a couple of questions. First of all is the polyethylene, galvanized or plastic waterer better? Also what size would be the best for about 4-7 chickens? The sizes are 6, 14, 2, 4, 8, 5, or 7 gallon waterers. Also does mcmurray hatchery carry welsummer chickens? Is it ok to just leave the chickens in a large pen with the coop in it and they can just roam wherever. I would lock them up at night in the small run with enclosed top with coop. For the large pen and small run with enclosed top should I use non-climb horse fencing, welded wire, or poultry netting? like I said before it is ok if you cant answer all of the questions, just answering one is fine! all advice is greatly appreciated!

i had chickens growing up we had them in a chicken coup..but my boss has chickens that they have in a "fenced in area with a chicken coup attached with a tiny door for the hens to enter to lay, or if bad weather strikes. at night they slide the little hen door down so the rodents and coyotes do not get them..if you get chicken wire and clip one side of their flight wings they won't be able to fly for a bit (you must repeat this monthly atleast..doing both sides will equal them out and they will still fly)
for the10 chickens she has she has a gavanized 5 gallon waterer.
you want to be sure you feed them the correct food.. depending on if they are meat hens or laying hens..i would def only get hens when and if possible, roosters tend to get possesive and a bit mean. unless you are planning on butchering or starting your own hatchery.
well i hope this helped
do not know about the welsummer chickens at all... we always got redrocks and bannies... my boss has redrocks, chipmunkers,leghorn,a bantam, newhampshire red and a plymouth rock

some of the chicks that my friends have got came from here :

http://www.healthychicksandmore.com/

http://www.mypetchicken.com/Day_Old_Baby_Chicks-c36.aspx

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