Building a Chicken Coop

Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock [Paperback]

June 7, 2010

From the Back Cover Bring your chickens home to roost in comfort and style! Whether you’re keeping one hen in a small backyard or 1,000 hens in a large free-range pasture, you will find the perfect housing plan in this comprehensive handbook. Author and farmer Judy Pangman combed the country to select these 45 plans [...]

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Chicken Housing – 4 Must Read Tips before you build your Chicken Coop

June 5, 2010

People raise chickens for many different reasons. Some are show birds; other more commercial entities raise chickens for their meat whilst others keep chickens for their eggs and their pure entertainment! The type of chicken coop you choose for you chickens will depend on a number of things. These include how big your back yard [...]

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Country Living in the City

June 2, 2010

If you only have a limited area in your backyard or are city bound, then a small all in one chicken coop may be just the thing for you! These are great if you only want to have three or four chickens who will supply enough eggs for a smaller family anyway! The units are [...]

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Chickens – Keeping ‘em Fed and Watered!

May 29, 2010

Keeping your chickens well feed and supplied with plenty of fresh water is essential to their health. By having proper containers for both, you avoid wasting food which therefore saves you money. You want to feed your chickens, not half the neighbourhood pests. There are many types of chicken feeders available on the market today. [...]

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Raising Chickens For Dummies [Paperback]

May 26, 2010

Practical how-to advice for raising chickens in virtually any backyard! Raising chickens on a small scale is a popular–and growing–pastime. And Raising Chickens For Dummies provides an up-to-date, thorough introduction to all aspects of caring for chickens, including choosing and purchasing chickens, constructing housing, and proper feeding. Raising Chickens For Dummies provides authoritative, detailed information [...]

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What to look for in a Chicken Coop

May 23, 2010

Give them space! Chickens in a happy space are productive chickens. Give your chickens at least 3 square feet each inside the chicken coop and around 6 feet in the run for each chicken. So once you have decided on the number of chickens you want to keep, you need to calculate the size of [...]

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To cage or not to cage

May 8, 2010

If you have limited space, chickens can be kept in cages. These can also be used for temporary housing whilst you build a chicken run or introduce chickens into a new environment. Free range is where the chicken has had access to the outdoors and as such their eggs tend to be more yellow reflecting [...]

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Maintaining your Chicken Coop

April 17, 2010

Maintaining your Chicken Coop Whether you built your own Chicken Coop or bought a readymade or kitset Coop, you do need to care for your coop to ensure your chickens remain safe, protected from predators and healthy. Be sure to check your chickens and your coop at least once a day and if you are [...]

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Caring for Chickens

April 6, 2010

Chickens are very easy to manage and chores generally include clearing the poop from your coop and ensuring they have clean dry bedding. Additionally make sure they have plenty of fresh food and water and don’t forget to collect the eggs each day! They need to be collected soon after they are laid and refrigerated [...]

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Eggs are good for you

April 2, 2010

Twenty years ago, eggs were labeled as bad and consumers were told to keep egg intake to one per week. Today there is much better understanding of the dietary benefits that eggs provide. Eggs are incredibly high in protein, minerals and vitamins and it is these benefits that far outweigh the cholesterol content. In fact, [...]

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What Is The Purpose Of Breeding Chicken?

April 1, 2010

Chicken breeding is a passion with some people and that is what makes them pursue it as a profession or even as a hobby. There is a lot to breeding chickens, which includes determining the breeds by the similarities between the chickens, in terms of colour, feathers and various other factors. Usually breeders [...]

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