How To Build A Simple Chicken Coop
How To Build A Simple Chicken Coop In Four Dead-Easy Steps
If your mind is set on keeping chickens in your backyard, but you do not know where to start because of the overload of information on how to keep chickens that’s coming your way, I advise you to forget everything that you heard, read or saw. Everything. I will tell you how to build a simple chicken coop and start keeping your own flock right now!
There’s only three things a Happy Chicken needs:
- Shelter
- Food
- Space
That’s all. The latter two are easy to solve: Food you can buy at a pet store or at a mill. Space should be you back yard or terrace. That leaves us with only one thing. A Hen House.
This is where most aspiring hobby farmers fail. Some build or buy too large a coop and get into trouble, some are incredibly bad at building a simple coop themselves and there’s people who start out with way too many chickens and a small shelter.
4 Steps To Build A Simple Chicken Coop
- First get a decent plan for a simple Chicken Coop. To visit simple, easy to follow plans at a decent price Click Here. I highly recommend these plans, as I have used them to (re) build my own Coop and Run several times.
- Get your tools and building materials. Good tools are a blessing for life, as most DIY-ers already know. To find affordable wood, I suggest you visit a sawing mill and buy your wood there. This is way cheaper than buying wood and mesh wire at the store.
- Find a good spot. Not too close too water, not too exposed to the elements and not too far from the house.
- Study your plans carefully before you start building. Print them and follow the easy steps and imagery in the best plans for a simple Chicken Coop. I finished a simple chicken tractor design that can hold up to three fowl within a day!
