Building a Chicken Coop and Learning to Be More Self Sufficient
The first experience I had building a chicken coop was when I was much younger.
I was known in my family as the chicken catcher, because I would chase the chickens around until they were too tired to run from me anymore.
I had much more patience than anyone else in my family, not to mention more energy.
So by default, I became the one in charge of taking care of the family chickens.
Before I had built the chicken coop, we would keep the chickens in the barn.
During the day they would roam around the farm yard.
At the end of the day most of the chickens would wander back in the barn, but there were always the few stragglers that would get into trouble.
It was my job to round them up.
A lot of times chickens would just disappear as well.
This was usually due to natural predators looking for a snack.
That is when I decided that building a chicken coop was necessary.
I started out without any sort of chicken coop designs.
I just figured I would grab some of the old spare wood that was always laying around and build a frame of some sort with chicken wire around it.
The first attempt was crude but it was actually very practical.
Later I built a chicken house for the chickens to lay eggs in.
This was really when I realized just how much easier this was making my life.
I spent less time running around chasing chickens and more time doing the things I wanted to do.
I found that gathering the eggs was much less hassle as well.
My mother began expecting a daily delivery of eggs, where as before we were just happy to gather up a few here and there to have for breakfast.
We actually started having more eggs than what we actually needed, so we started to share them with our relatives and neighbors.
Building a chicken coop for the first time taught me a valuable lesson when I was younger.
I didn't know it then, but as I grew older and moved out on my own, I realized just how important it is to be self sufficient in today's world.
I always believed that it was the old fashioned way to do things then, but now I know that relying on yourself is something that is more important than I could imagine.
Some of my friends ask me how I am able to find the time to still raise chickens, and I let them know the value I get from being more self sufficient.
I was known in my family as the chicken catcher, because I would chase the chickens around until they were too tired to run from me anymore.
I had much more patience than anyone else in my family, not to mention more energy.
So by default, I became the one in charge of taking care of the family chickens.
Before I had built the chicken coop, we would keep the chickens in the barn.
During the day they would roam around the farm yard.
At the end of the day most of the chickens would wander back in the barn, but there were always the few stragglers that would get into trouble.
It was my job to round them up.
A lot of times chickens would just disappear as well.
This was usually due to natural predators looking for a snack.
That is when I decided that building a chicken coop was necessary.
I started out without any sort of chicken coop designs.
I just figured I would grab some of the old spare wood that was always laying around and build a frame of some sort with chicken wire around it.
The first attempt was crude but it was actually very practical.
Later I built a chicken house for the chickens to lay eggs in.
This was really when I realized just how much easier this was making my life.
I spent less time running around chasing chickens and more time doing the things I wanted to do.
I found that gathering the eggs was much less hassle as well.
My mother began expecting a daily delivery of eggs, where as before we were just happy to gather up a few here and there to have for breakfast.
We actually started having more eggs than what we actually needed, so we started to share them with our relatives and neighbors.
Building a chicken coop for the first time taught me a valuable lesson when I was younger.
I didn't know it then, but as I grew older and moved out on my own, I realized just how important it is to be self sufficient in today's world.
I always believed that it was the old fashioned way to do things then, but now I know that relying on yourself is something that is more important than I could imagine.
Some of my friends ask me how I am able to find the time to still raise chickens, and I let them know the value I get from being more self sufficient.
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