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The Best Chicken Coop Plans for You
- 1. The Best Chicken Coop Plans for You
- 2. Picking good chicken coop plans to follow when begin building a coop will be essential for maintaining your coop for a long time.
- 3. When people consider building, quite often they jump in with both feet but don't know what they are getting themselves into.
- 4. They think that by buying some materials and slapping together a square building, that they have a good coop.
- 5. This couldn't be further from the truth.
- 6. It seems that most people fail to see the worth of taking the time to explore and evaluate chicken coop plans.
- 7. It amazing that this happens because a good set of chicken coop plans will give you step-by-step instructions, guiding you through the entire building process to make sure that you will get the exact results you are looking for.
- 8. So make sure to examine the plans and take into account all of the various aspects of building.
- 9. The first step is to gather the materials specific in the plans.
- 10. The good thing about a set of chicken coop plans is that they do not leave you guessing about what you need or how much of something you need.
- 11. It is all spelled out for you on the materials list.
- 12. A money saving tip is to look for used materials that you can use.
- 13. This will cut down you total cost of building and make your coop unique.
- 14. Don't worry if you don't have any spare materials laying around; they are plenty of places you can get used materials cheap of possibly for free.
- 15. Websites like Freecycle, Craigslist, or even Google can be places you can find free stuff to with; or you can go the old fashioned route and ask your neighbors.
- 16. Nothing sets you up better for success then having a nice landscaped plot to work on.
- 17. The downside of most chicken coop plans is that they start telling you how to build assuming to have already cleared, leveled, and prepared where you are going to build.
- 18. Also, clearing the land is one thing but picking the right spot to build is another.
- 19. Avoid choosing areas that are too low because this causes flooding problems.
- 20. Also, build somewhere that gets a good amount of sunlight.
- 21. Studies have shown that there is a direct relation to the amount of sunlight a chicken gets versus the number of eggs it lays.
- 22. Gone are the days where you can just cram as many chickens into a coop as possible.
- 23. Giving your chickens the room to flap their wings in no longer a good humanitarian gesture, it's the law.
- 24. There is a simple equation you can apply to figure out the total area you will need for all of your chickens.
- 25. Each chicken will need 4 feet of space.
- 26. So as soon as you know how many chickens you plan to keep, multiply by 4 and that is the square footage you need to include in your coop.
- 27. An added note, always build bigger than you think you need, after all you will need the extra space when your flock begins to grow.
- 28. Hank Dodson is the owner of The Chicken Coop Plans Site.
- 29. Hank has been building chicken coops and caring for chicken for decades.
- 30. Want to learn more about chicken coop plans? Visit his chicken coop plans site for helpful tips and information on how to build you very own coop.
- 32. Easy Chicken Coop Plans