| Chicken Coops are no longer just for farmers and | | | | to be taken into account also. If you go through the |
| you yourself can have one right in your backyard | | | | trouble of building a chicken coop backyard, you are |
| today (well maybe not today, but very shortly). A | | | | not going to want to give it up that easy. So, |
| chicken coop barn, or coop as they are referred to, | | | | consider possibly putting in a cement floor. This will |
| is starting to pop up all over the place, including next | | | | protect your precious egg laying poultry from snakes, |
| door. Everyone is starting to consider if this is the | | | | rodents and insect infestation. Also, make sure your |
| right thing for them. With the economy and the | | | | chicken run has been buried in the ground and has a |
| healthier lifestyles people are leading these days, they | | | | cover of chicken wire or fencing over it to protect |
| are beginning to build chicken coop in their backyard. | | | | them from dogs, coyotes, and other wild animals. |
| But your thinking, icky....they smell, they take so much | | | | And most importantly to avoid your own egg laying |
| work; they make a lot of noise, and so on. Well, | | | | poultry from each other, you must make sure the |
| surprising as it might be, chickens are one of the | | | | size of the chicken coop barn is appropriate for the |
| easiest animals to care for. They do not really smell, | | | | amount of chickens you are raising. General rule is 4 |
| and if you build your coop with good ventilation you | | | | square feet per chicken, so make sure you hold fast |
| will not have a problem with that smelling either. Now, | | | | to that rule, because they will begin to peck each |
| yes you will have to clean it regularly, but again, if | | | | other and fight. |
| build correctly, this will be a quick easy task that | | | | Anyone can build raise chickens, so do not feel like |
| does not require a hazardous outfit to enter. | | | | you are fighting a losing battle, it is not as hard as |
| OK, so you now have that problem under way, but | | | | one may think. Plan ahead and enjoy it, you will never |
| now you are considering how the heck you are going | | | | forget the experience! |
| to protect the chickens from predators. Well, this has | | | | |