Raising fowl is one of the most interesting and profitable occupations. With raising them, comes the responsibility of feeding them, keeping them clean and disease free. Well designed chicken coops make your work less time consuming, less expensive and more fun.
In the book ‘Building a Chicken Coop guide’, the author gives a lot of ideas on how to build well designed stationary and mobile chicken coops. The book also tells the reader about the pros and cons of each type of chicken coop and how to built coops quickly with easily available materials.
Primary purpose of the chicken coop is to protect the birds from predatory animals, after which comes the feeding, ventilation, light, warmth, etc. Chicken coops have separate areas that hold the food and water and prevent it from spreading all over the coop. Keeping food and water this way helps keep the coop clean.
Ventilating the coop well to remove ammonia and carbon dioxide is very important to keep the birds healthy. The chicken coop should be positioned well to allow proper cross ventilation and right amount of natural light into the coop. The climate in your region decides what kind of walls you will need. All this is explained in the book, ‘Building a Chicken Coop guide’ and it is a complete guide to chicken coop building.
‘Building a Chicken Coop guide’ gives step to step instructions on building a chicken coop. The author also gives different designs that are possible and you can choose the one most suitable for you with respect to space and material available. Here the author talks about how the commonly available material such as old furniture can be used to build a cheap and environmentally friendly coop. This is a wonderful book to have if you are planning to build a coop or redo an old one.
