Chicken Coop Designs - What You Need to Know Before You Design Your Chicken Coop
Chicken coop designs are a dime a dozen, much cheaper than the eggs. But finding the right design can be a difficult task. While they look simple at first glance, a chicken coop needs built with certain considerations in mind. You don't just throw up a box structure and throw them in, there are more considerations involved. Chicken all need a place to roost. So whatever design you implement, you must include roosts. They need to have places to sit while outside as well, so design your coop with a few nesting boxes outside of the main house. Chomping on chicken isn't humanly exclusive. Foxes, chicken hawks, coyotes, and a whole host of other critters are just as fond of them as we are. When designing your coop make sure it's predator proof. Many design a coop that's moveable. That way they can just move the coop around on the lot giving the chickens fresh-growing vegetation to feed on all the time. For making this type of chicken coop design, you need some plastic water pipe and 1" by 2" welded wire. These pipes seem to form better with the lay of the land than does the wood. Being lighter, the moving is easier. Then only concern comes during high winds, that's when you need to be ready with a way to anchor them down. Your three primary concern for your design is going to be predators, theft, and injury. These three things need to be at the forefront of your mind while designing your coop. So protect and defend.
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