How do i build a chicken coop

Does chicken coop size matter ?

Feb 12

BruceChicken Coop build a chicken coop, buying a chicken coop / house, chickens in the backyard No Comments

It has been a few weeks and I had the location down the side of the house and i had my measurements from ebay and all was looking great.

It was just down to which ebay seller to get it off and how much the postage was going to be.

I had it down to two different sellers one was cheaper with higher postage and the other was dearer with free pickup !! and i have a mate who works about 10 minutes from where it could be picked up from so it was all falling into place.

I made a few bids on a few trying to get  a steal but it didnt work out for me someone was outbbidding me every time.

Then i was having a drink with a mate and he asked another question infront of the kids so “how many chooks are you going to get ? ” I hadnt given it much thought but couldnt imagine more than 2, but all of a sudden the kids answered before i got a chance, HEAPS came out to my serprise and the the amusment of everyone else. So i asked how many is heaps and the 4 year old said one for mum, one for dad, one for me and one for my brother Oh and one for the dog. Thats 5 chickens.

So my idea of 2 chooks was now out the window but there was some method in here thinking, 1 chook means hopefully 1 egg per day, that means i can have an omlet every day woohhoooo this idea is sounding better every day, now i just have to find some recepies the use eggs.

Now we were looking at 4-5 chooks i had to really think about how big it needed to be.

So back to ebay to look at how many chickens these coops hold

The chicken idea takes flight, do they fly ?

Jan 12

BruceChicken Coop, Chickens build a chicken coop, buying a chicken coop / house, chickens in the backyard, Kids want chooks No Comments

The fun begins, the children have decided that we need chickens !!! How the kids decided they need chickes is sort of my fault but thats covered in the why am I building a chicken coop page.

My wife has now also admitted defeat and we are now looking at how we are going find chickens where we are going to house these chickens and what is really involved in looking after chickens, people have been doing it for thousands of years it cant be that hard can it ?