Are you Looking for Plans or Blueprints for a Chicken Coop?
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Congratulations, this is an exciting time! Chickens make the best pets!
If you already have a chicken coop that is getting too small for your poultry flock, or you are going to start raising your own hens for eggs or meat, the right chicken coop blueprints will make the whole job of building a chicken coop easier and cheaper. And way less frustrating!
We have had rare and heritage breed chickens nearly 5 years and have built many hen houses and movable chicken tractors and arks. It is hard work, but we enjoy the chickens so much it is worth it. If you are looking to get chickens, I am certain you will love having them as pets and producers of fresh eggs and recyclers of of scraps form the table.
Having a good set of poultry housing plans or designs makes the job go much faster. Practice makes perfect and we have found that on our Skeffling Lavender Hobby Farm.
If you only want to do this once, you can save practice efforts and money by using tried and tested coop designs that have been refined to be the easiest to use and move around in.
Here are my Spangled Orloff hens hanging out together in the coop!
We have had rare and heritage breed chickens nearly 5 years and have built many hen houses and movable chicken tractors and arks. It is hard work, but we enjoy the chickens so much it is worth it. If you are looking to get chickens, I am certain you will love having them as pets and producers of fresh eggs and recyclers of of scraps form the table.
Having a good set of poultry housing plans or designs makes the job go much faster. Practice makes perfect and we have found that on our Skeffling Lavender Hobby Farm.
If you only want to do this once, you can save practice efforts and money by using tried and tested coop designs that have been refined to be the easiest to use and move around in.
Here are my Spangled Orloff hens hanging out together in the coop!
Please look out for pitfalls of some poultry housing plans
There are a number building a chicken coop instant downloads available to buy out there and it is so hard to know what kind of quality they are before you spend a dime. Many offer money back guarantees which is great, but that is just a pain to deal with to remember to return. Some will be incomplete or the designs don't make sense.
Chances are, you aren't going to realize they are poor plans until you start building or until the coop is built and you are having trouble with it months later. So choose a good coop design to start. Your back and your chickens will thank you for it.
Sometimes the plans are made up by wood-workers not chicken owners. Anyone who has owned and cared for back yard chickens, knows there is a difference between a converted garden shed and a well designed easy-access and use henhouse, that is easy move around in. And that a good coop is healthy for the chickens too.
Even in our own coop and henhouse designs we have done in the past, we improve the design a little each time. This has all been done for you with these chicken coop blueprints we like. They are the fine tuned version that the creators have painstakingly tried out and refined. Wish we had this when we were starting out!
Chances are, you aren't going to realize they are poor plans until you start building or until the coop is built and you are having trouble with it months later. So choose a good coop design to start. Your back and your chickens will thank you for it.
Sometimes the plans are made up by wood-workers not chicken owners. Anyone who has owned and cared for back yard chickens, knows there is a difference between a converted garden shed and a well designed easy-access and use henhouse, that is easy move around in. And that a good coop is healthy for the chickens too.
Even in our own coop and henhouse designs we have done in the past, we improve the design a little each time. This has all been done for you with these chicken coop blueprints we like. They are the fine tuned version that the creators have painstakingly tried out and refined. Wish we had this when we were starting out!
What to look for in a Great Set of Chicken Coop Designs
Easy, Great Designs, Cheap and Convenient
1) Easy to follow that make sense from start to finish with complete materials list before you start so you can easily calculate costs
2) Designs of coops that will that keep the chickens healthy, comfortable and productive - predator proof, well lit, dry and weather proof, with good ventilation and insulation where needed
3) Designs that make cleaning and caring for the poultry flock easy - by easy I mean, fast, easy access, with minimal strain on your back, no stooping, with minimal lugging of feed and water, easy egg collection
4) Good simple designs that are easy to build
5) Good Value, lots of good designs for many sizes of flock that can be adapted if you want
6) Money back guarantee if they are no good to you
I own this Set of Chicken Coop Blueprints
and recommend them.
It is created by chicken owners that are wood workers too. They are blueprints for an easy build chicken barn poultry coop. They are a fully working sample of the designs in the hen coop blueprint package I recommend. You can't download from here but you can download from my Easy Chickenry Website.
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If you have any questions at all, I know a bit about chickens and am happy to help! I love talking about them! My Great Henhouses blog gives info on best roost sizes and lighting etc to help you get set up too.
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