Not only will you have a self sustained miniature-farm that produces fresh organic eggs everyday, recycles your food scraps and provides high quality fertilizer, but you'll be proud to know that you made something with your own two hands.
People have through the ages been chicken keepers primarily as a source of food, with both their meat and their eggs being consumed.
There has been a surge of interest in chicken keeping, caused by celebrity cooks bringing to attention the plight of battery reared hens, increased cost at the shops and the reported credit crunch.
The idea of having hens in your yard and the idea of having fresh eggs from your own chucks, doesn't single you out or causes as many 'home farm' type comments as it did in the past, of being a modern day Tom & Barbara Good - from the 1970s sitcom The Good Life television series! Keeping chickens is a financially scalable hobby.
If money is no object, then there's many fancy looking ready made chicken coops that can be bought from numerous chicken keeping stores.
If finance is tight, or you just want to build your own then a home build chicken coop can be built for virtually 'free', using scraps of wood found discarded in your garage.
A chicken coop just needs to be big enough for the chucks to nest in at night, and large enough to stretch their wings in during the day.
Also somewhere for them to scratch during the day time should be provided.
So if you're looking to build a chicken coop for keeping your chickens, a world of chicken keeping joy awaits.
These are the plans that I used and adapted to make my own custom designed coop.
No fancy tools required - We have especially design our plans so that anyone with basic tools like a handsaw, hammer, drill etc can build our coops Easy To Build Plans - With easy to follow cross-sectional diagrams that include exact dimensions and required materials.
People have through the ages been chicken keepers primarily as a source of food, with both their meat and their eggs being consumed.
There has been a surge of interest in chicken keeping, caused by celebrity cooks bringing to attention the plight of battery reared hens, increased cost at the shops and the reported credit crunch.
The idea of having hens in your yard and the idea of having fresh eggs from your own chucks, doesn't single you out or causes as many 'home farm' type comments as it did in the past, of being a modern day Tom & Barbara Good - from the 1970s sitcom The Good Life television series! Keeping chickens is a financially scalable hobby.
If money is no object, then there's many fancy looking ready made chicken coops that can be bought from numerous chicken keeping stores.
If finance is tight, or you just want to build your own then a home build chicken coop can be built for virtually 'free', using scraps of wood found discarded in your garage.
A chicken coop just needs to be big enough for the chucks to nest in at night, and large enough to stretch their wings in during the day.
Also somewhere for them to scratch during the day time should be provided.
So if you're looking to build a chicken coop for keeping your chickens, a world of chicken keeping joy awaits.
These are the plans that I used and adapted to make my own custom designed coop.
No fancy tools required - We have especially design our plans so that anyone with basic tools like a handsaw, hammer, drill etc can build our coops Easy To Build Plans - With easy to follow cross-sectional diagrams that include exact dimensions and required materials.
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