How to Make a Chicken Coop Using a Free Wood With Backyard Chicken Pen – Version B

Chickens are now fast becoming the pets that are liked by most folks. Nowadays, chickens are kept in backyards, and people who have children love to build a Chicken House to raise these yard birds. They are not just for country folks anymore; many people enjoy having a few hens.

Chickens are dual utility birds; they are meant for both eggs and meat. Depending upon their breed, they generally vary from each other, like the total amount of eggs they lay per year and how much they weigh, and in certain features, they vary from each other.

A backyard chicken pen is generally used for providing shelter, food and a place to lay eggs for the hens and to save themselves from predators, and also the droppings of chickens, which are used as the best fertilizer.

While constructing a house, we have to consider certain things like ventilation, positioning, nesting, perches, litter collection, and especially the chicken pen fencing You should have good knowledge about the local environment so that the chickens can be safeguarded to fit the environmental weather conditions and protected from the local predators (foxes, cats, hawks, et, which are enemies to chickens.

Depending upon the number of chickens you want to place in the house, the size will vary accordingly. Likely, a self-contained mid-size chicken pen is suitable for 4 chickens, a small portable chicken coop.

Getting Free Wood

Dumpster diving is the best method to get some free wood. Just look anywhere construction is going on. There will always be tons of very good boards in the dumpster.

From my experience, I have never been told that I could not get in the dumpster and take whatever I wanted; all I had to do was ask if workers were present.

*Note – DO NOT take anything that is NOT in the dumpster, in case no one is around, it would be stealing.

If you are thinking of growing 10 to 15 chickens in your coop, then a large two-story chicken pen is suitable. A large premium chicken house is the best place if you are planning to accommodate up to 50 chickens.

Generally, while constructing a coop, we should consider the thing that it should be easily cleaned because excessive ammonia content causes respiratory illness.

This makes a necessary to clean it every month, and feces are used as fertilizer, and there should be more space for the movement of these chickens from one place to another within the coop.

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Find The Size

Generally to construct a hen house for 8 chickens one require a 4.5 square feet space per chicken,3 nests, 9″ perch length for each chicken and it also be needed other nails, hinges, door latches, door bolts, window catches, galvanized flashings for openings, roof ridge cap, wire cloth or mesh for any permanent openings or air ventilation.

All these are the things that are to be taken care of, depending on the number of chickens we want to grow, and depending on our thinking, we should increase the limits.

The floor is covered with wood shavings to take deep litterWoodenn pallets are generally used for storage purposes, and they can be used as a good example for recycling products. Once you get all your products, you can build a chicken coop easily.

Here is a link for a great in-depth guide that shows you step by step and has many different models to choose from, which I highly recommend. By the way, it is for beginners to advanced.