Want To Keep Chickens At Home? First You Need A Good Chicken Coop.
We all love eggs. They’re wonderful to eat, nutritious and make a great omelette. And we all love pets. So why not satisfy your roots for pets and for eggs by keeping chickens, and eat omelette every day?
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 decide that keeping chickens is a great idea and jump in the car to go by some you need to think a little bit about a good chicken coop , because you will need a chicken coop to house your chickens.
A simple portable chicken coop that you can move around the garden is really quite sufficient for 3 or 4 hens, and 3 or 4 hens will provide ample eggs for the average family.
There are also regulations in some places governing the keeping of chickens as well as the size of chicken houses and you should check this out first.
The cheapest way to get your own chicken coop is to build it yourself. If you’re handy with a hammer and nails it shouldn’t be too difficult. Some treated pine, some chicken wire and a few odds and ends and you can have your own chicken coup built during an afternoon.
There’s some essentials when building a chicken coop, including a nesting box where the hens will lay their eggs.
At night chooks need to roost to sleep, so they need some perches above the floor of the chicken house to do so.
There is a simple A-frame design that is easy to build and quite adequate for 3 or 4 chickens. Run rods from one side of the chicken coop to the other for the chickens to roost on at night and put some cover over this area so they are not roosting in the rain.
And if you would like to make the chicken coop portable then you can do so easily by putting wheels on one end and handles on the other. That way you can roll it around the garden every few days fertilising different parts of the lawn.
You can always allow your chickens out of the henhouse during the day. Make sure however that they all return at night and the door is closed in case of foxes. Your chickens will clean up your yard of any nasty bugs.
Kids just love having chickens, as well as the eggs. But before you get started on your new hobby of keeping chickens decide how many you wish to have, and buy or build a a good quality chicken coop to house them in and you’re well on your way to a fridge full of eggs.
Get to work with that hammer, nails, timber and wire, build yourself a simple chicken coop and sit back to enjoy your omelettes.
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