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4 Costly And Serious Mistakes To Stay Away From While Building Chicken Coops
Author : Joshua Hardingur
When I initially began building chicken coops many years ago I made way too many careless errors. My very first coop was constructed in a location with inferior water drainage, making it unacceptably muddy when there was rain. Not only were my hens less healthy, but the eggs were always dirty and needed washing. Additionally, it was as much as 5 times bigger than necessary and 5 times more expensive.
In spite of this, by means of trial and error, it didn't take too long before I was building chicken coops that were cheap and simple to maintain. It became loads of fun so I began growing lots of unique breeds of chickens, hatching fertile eggs in an incubator that my own hens had laid. Furthermore, I began growing additional kinds of birds including turkey, quail, duck, and a few others. Making fully functional and well-designed coops made my hobby enjoyable and gratifying. If you would like to obtain some rewards from your new endeavor, do everything right the first time and sidestep expensive novice errors.
Mistake #1: Not Creating a Good Plan
With a bit of preplanning you will boost the odds of developing an enjoyable hobby. At a bare minimum you need to draw a rough illustration of how your poultry house will look. In the sketch you need to include where the doors, walls, windows, poultry feeders, nesting boxes, and waterers will be placed. By creating a comprehensive diagram, together with measurements and proportions, you will be able to precisely assess the amount of supplies you will require. Money will be squandered if you buy too many materials.
When coming to a decision about where to locate items in your chicken housing, try to position them where they will be convenient for you. For a case in point, putting a tiny door in the correct spot can make egg collecting a trouble-free job. Put the nesting boxes on a wall that has a little outside-available door just a smidgen above the height of the nesting boxes. Making hen houses in this fashion will permit you to gather eggs from the exterior without having to enter.
Try to make use of a design where the coop is a couple of feet higher than the soil with wire for the flooring. This will allow the droppings to fall below the wire flooring as a substitute to building up inside their home. It will remove the necessity of regular cleaning and also keep the pullets out of their droppings.
Mistake #2: Not Spending a Sufficient Amount of Time Evaluating the Location
One of the most frequent mistakes is building chicken coops in bad backyard locations. Choosing a bad backyard spot can be the cause of unhealthy, diseased, and unproductive hens. The coop needs to be where there is superior water drainage. Without adequate water drainage you will probably end up with a muddy mess that contains a blend of sludge, water, and bird droppings. Consuming this polluted water or tracking it into the nest and feed area will most definitely result in fewer eggs, illness, and even fatalities among the flock.
The poultry houses should ideally be built close to easily accessible water. This will allow you to install simple automated watering practices and remove the need for you to give them fresh water each day.
Mistake #3: Giving Them Too Little Light
If you expect your hens to provide you with eggs reliably they will need a bare minimum of 14 hours of sunlight per day. So construct your poultry houses facing south for maximum sunlight exposure. Additionally, it will keep the poultry houses drier which will help it remain cleaner. If you are planning to gather eggs throughout the times of the year where there are fewer than 14 hours of sunlight per day you will need to supply them with artificial light in the form of a low wattage light bulb. Putting your coop near an available electrical source is beneficial in this situation.
Mistake #4: Providing the Flock with Poor Air Circulation
With no windows or other openings deficient air circulation will be the end result. Poultry droppings will produce pungent and unpleasant odors that are detrimental to their physical health if allowed to build up. A bare minimum of one window, but possibly two, should be placed in locations that will produce suitable ventilation and air circulation. With better air circulation the coop will stay drier, and therefore cleaner, which will help avert sickness and disease.
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Joshua has successfully grown fowl for over 25 years and has manufactured all of his own poultry housing during the course of that time. He is knowledgeable in successfully growing chickens for meat and eggs. He keeps a web site filled with effective info with reference to building chicken coops, successfully growing chickens, and more.
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Submitted : 2010-01-28 Word Count : 914 Popularity: 164 Times Viewed: 13
