Do you raise your own chickens at home? If you have not, it is a good time for you to try.
Keeping chickens at your backyard can yield a lot of benefits.
One of the main advantages is the fresh and delicious eggs produced by the hens.
A healthy hen is capable of producing 5 to 6 eggs every week.
If you have half of dozen of hens, the eggs they produce will be more than enough for your household consumption.
Because bantams are relatively small, they are exposed to numerous predators.
Cats, dogs, raccoons, large rats etc tend to prey on chickens and kill them.
One solution to keeping them safe is building a house for them to live in.
How do you build a chicken coop for your backyard? You start by getting a set of hen house plans.
There are many ways you can get hold of chicken coop plans.
The best place to search for them is on the internet.
There are also free hen house designs on the web.
You can simply download them.
But beware, these plans are generally hard to understand and may not be accurate.
You might be wasting time just to figure them out.
A better alternative is to buy good chicken coop designs and guides from a reputable web site.
How do you know if it is good? Just do a query on the search engine and look for product reviews and recommendation.
If the manual and blueprints are good, you will find people giving positive feedback about it.