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Building Your Own Chicken Coop
If you’ve decided to learn to build your own chicken coop, you are in good hands. It is not difficult, however it does need a bit of know-how which you can acquire right here.
Sketch out your design on a sheet of paper before you do anything else. Think of the colors you will paint the roof and chicken coop walls. Always keep in mind that if your chicken coop is clearly visible to your neighbors, (unless you live in a farm it will most likely be visible to your entire neighborhood,) it shouldn’t ever serve as a distraction or defacement of its utmost surroundings. So make sure to design an aesthetically looking chicken coop so that your neighbors do not complain of its detracting appearance. Once finished, always remember to remove and dispose of any types of garbage or weeds from around your chicken coop. Try to maintain an appealing landscape around it to enhance its overall appearance.
There are also some design principles that you need to follow. For example the windows of the coop should open inwardly. Also the materials you will use for the building of the coop should take into account cleanliness and disinfection, as they should be fast and easy to do. Afterall you don’t want to spend all your time cleaning the coop. And when it comes to windows, they should be sliding ones so that your chicken will not roost on the windows.
A question many people ask is how to build a chicken coop so that the floors are easy to hose and spray down without much puddling? Well the secret to that is to slightly slope the flooring toward the door. This way, when you spray out the chicken coop, the water will flow out, hence solving your puddling problem.
So you want to learn how to build a chicken coop with maximum protection? Then listen up. As you may know, a well built chicken coop will protect your chickens from hazardous elements such as bad weather (heavy rain, wind, hale, snow, cold climates, etc,) but they will also protect them from hungry predators, theft and injury.
You want to build a draft free chicken house with windows and doors that can be opened and closed as needed. Make sure the windows and doors both have proper screening systems installed in them such as a heavy gage mesh wire. Building the chicken coop on a high yet well drained area with ensure the least amount of dampness of the coop. Be sure to build your chicken coop in an area that faces the sun which will help warm and dry the soil and coop itself after it rains.
Coming back to protecting your chicken, a great way to go about it is to run chicken wire around your entire coop which is planted as deep as one foot. This will disallow any animals to dig holes deep enough to get to your treasured chicken.
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