If You Want To Keep Chickens At Home Find Yourself A Good Chicken Coop

There’s no doubt that everyone loves pets, and most of us love eggs too. And there is a wonderful way to combine your love of pets and eating eggs together. Why not keep chickens?

As all kids love pets they will also love chickens. I have chickens and I have kids and the kids are delighted with their chickens. They feed them and pat them and give them names. Chickens are cheap to feed, and if you let them out in the garden during the day they’ll eat those pesky bugs that are feasting on your flowers. They are also relatively easy to keep and don’t make lots of noise as long as you don’t get a rooster.

But before you buy some chickens you do need to think about housing them. You will need a good chicken coop to house your chickens. Let’s consider the ins and outs of chicken coops.

Of course the first thing you’ll need to consider is how many chickens you wish to house. If you’d like a box of eggs a day you’ll need plenty of chickens, however for most families 3 or 4 hens is sufficient. If this is the case a simple movable chicken house that can be trundled around the garden is quite adequate.

The first thing you need to think about is whether there are any regulations governing keeping chickens or having a henhouse . In some places regulations specify what you can and cannot do.

The quickest way to get yourself a chicken coop is to buy one, however they are not that difficult to build provided you’re familiar with the workings of a hammer. Grab some treated timber suitable for outdoors, some chicken wire and a few essential handyman bits and pieces and it is not that difficult to build your chicken coup during an afternoon.

Although not essential it helps to provide an enclosed area for the hens to nest. This is where the eggs will be laid.

At night chooks need to roost to sleep, so they need some perches above the floor of the chicken house to do so.

A simple design that is easy to build is an A-frame design. You can make the perches by running timber rods from one side of the coop to the other. Make sure that the perches are under cover so the chickens are out of the weather when sleeping stop

If you put handles on one end and wheels on the other it is then easy to move around the garden, and you move it every few days to fertilise different areas of the lawn.

There is generally no problem in allowing your chickens to roam the garden during the day, although it is important to make sure they have returned to the chicken house at night and to close the entry door. Even in the middle of the city it is possible to find foxes and foxes while a chicken for dinner.

If you’ve got kids they will absolutely love having chickens of their own, and will also appreciate the eggs to eat. But make sure, before you buy your chickens, that you do some research to establish what size your chicken coop needs to be to house the number of chickens that you are considering.

Grab that hammer and nails out of the shed, get started on a simple handyman project that you can enjoy doing with the kids, get yourself some chickens and then enjoy all those wonderful omelettes.