Last year, I decided to build a chicken coop with my wife. He and I used to be obese and we decided to evaluate the food that we eat. We decided that a part of us even in better health is more and more of our own food and organic food to avoid chemicals that accumulate in our bodies. In this framework, we wanted to raise chickens for the healthy eggs. After a little more difficult that we asked of us finally made build a chicken coop. I wish that someone would be told me a long ago the only errors to avoid.
MISTAKE # 1: Not planning not before you build.
When you are ready to build a chicken coop, you plan all aspects of coop before take you even a hammer.
To build a chicken coop draw a plan. Collect all the materials. Select the materials that will be easy to make, easy to work with and easy to clean. The functionality of your coop plan. The doors should open inward, not outward. If you create the other way with the door opening to the outside you chickens will begin to perch on your windows. Your chickens spend much time in the coop which they need of fresh air, design a coop with sliding Windows is a great way to keep them fresh in the summer and warm in the summer.
When you build a chicken coop, you must consider how you will keep your coop-specific floors. You first need to cover with a good material for the chickens dig and scratch as they naturally. Unfortunately, hay is not ideal for this. Second, you must build the coop with the floors slightly sloping towards the door. This way you can spray the pipe in the coop and the dirt on the ground easily sliding on the ground below. You will have a coop clean and without puddles in the coop.
MISTAKE # 2: Not to give your Ventilation of chicken.
Construction of a poultry house is to protect your herd. The purpose of your coop is to protect your chickens out predators and the element, but should also provide good ventilation. Free movement of air inside the coop is very important, but you do not want to block your hens with a project. Chickens, like humans, they can only run at their optimal level if all their basic needs are met first of all, in this case protection and oxygen. A henhouse without free air movement and thus more oxygen will have high levels of carbon monoxide and moisture. This is not good because it is uncomfortable chickens do not produce as many eggs. It is also very dangerous because it facilitates the growth of mold in the walls.
MISTAKE # 3: Not of insulating walls.
Insulation of the walls to build a chicken coop correctly is very important. The walls of the chicken coop must have installed insulation. This will help keep the chickens warm in winter and cool in the summer. The insulation will also help to keep the coop to optimal humidity levels. When chickens are kept at the optimal level of moisture that they produce more eggs. Insulating walls will also help to keep the chickens dry. In cold climates when your chickens are dry they can bear the cold. Insulating walls will not only keep your chickens, eggs, but it will prevent your chickens to be sick.
ERROR # 4. Do not put water and feeders to the right place.
If you build a chicken coop, obviously water and chicken feeders must be in a place where your chickens can easily access. It is important to be very careful in the choice of a place to put water and feeders. Chickens can be great disorder of things, because their natural scratching and digging instinct. This is very frustrating to see the water and feeding of chicken you are just in the floor. To avoid this place the feeder and water at a chicken in the back. Ideally the chickens will have to stretch their necks to the food a little to eat and drink, but they are not able to put their feet in their food or water. Be sure to replace the water and feeding of chicken every day.
ERROR # 5 - did does not a good light Source.
Build your chicken coop facing South, so that the co-op will receive the Sun throughout the day. For the winter months when the days are shorter and there is less Sun, it is important to install lighting to the co-op. This is not difficult. They have lights that you can just stick to the walls at any local hardware store, you do not have to be an electrician, it's as simple as putting a sticker on a paper.Installation of this light will be worth the few dollars you spend in the making. It will keep your chickens warm and happy and follow your production of eggs during the winter, when most of the farmers of chicken experience a fall of production, because the chickens receive less light and heat.
Mistake # 6: Not step to protect your chickens from the elements.
Your coop is a haven for your hens, much as your House is for you. A well built poultry house will protect your chickens from hazardous elements such as weather.
Here are the basis for your coop weather-resistant.
1 Make sure the doors and Windows are sealed properly so that they do not leave a project.
2 Build the chicken coop on a high area where it can easily be emptied and the less moisture the coop.
3 Build your chicken coop with the sun fun. Will this keep the coop dry after it rains, warm when it's cold on.
ERROR # 7: Do step to protect your chickens from predators.
Build a chicken coop not only to protect the elements of your herd and to protect them from predators.
Here are the basics to protect your chickens from predators:
1. Do not build the coop near brush to the other animals may live.
2 Bury your off-trails of chicken with chicken wire. You can put the wire on the ground and then cover. This will keep predators such as raccoons, cats and even dogs digging under the term.
Construction of a poultry house is fun and easy, but you must follow these simple steps to avoid problems in the future. Raising chickens in a farm or in your urban or suburban garden is a pleasant experience. Just do not commit these mistakes.
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