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Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of Part 1 of our guide to building chicken coops, which starts on this chicken coop guide. We’ve previously discussed chicken coop size requirements, the basics of chicken coops, and chicken coop ventilation. If you’ve missed the first part, …

May 19, 2009Allene Reynolds

Keeping chickens as pets has, in the past few years, become very popular. They are practical because they eat insects, useful because they lay eggs, and are lots of fun to watch. Three or four hens scratching about and singing for their supper makes for pleasant contentment. But where do you keep them?

Housing the Chickens

There are many plans, from …

By LAUREN ETTER

CENTER RIDGE, Ark. — Like many Americans, Darris and Sarah Dixon are struggling with mortgage payments and trying to avoid bankruptcy.

But the home the Dixons live in isn’t the problem. The problem is their three chicken houses, on which they owe nearly $500,000.

“There’s no way we’ll make the chicken house payments,” Mr. Dixon says from his farm abutting the …

There has never been a more exciting time to keep chickens and to build a DIY chicken shed to house your poultry is a perfect solution to be able to provide more than adequate housing for them. There are so many easily accessible hints and tips available for you to make use of all available at the touch of a button which will help no end in building a DIY chicken shed very simply and …

The benefits of modern broiler housingThis article, written by Big Dutchman, reviews the benefits of two newly constructed broiler parent houses in Neulehe, Germany, which were opened earlier this year.

For many years now, Big Dutchman housing equipment has stood for sophisticated technology and proven quality. This also convinced the Ruberg family from Neulehe, Germany, who contracted …

From Poultry Hub In Australia, the chicken layer industry, or egg industry, is an important intensive animal production system. Australians consume about 203 million dozen eggs per year, or 170 eggs per person per year. The eggs are produced from more than 13 million layer hens, and there are around 420 companies supplying eggs to the Australian market. The value of these eggs as they leave …

So, with much of the structure of the chicken house built, I’m starting to work on making them some accessories, like a nest box (which they will need Real Soon Now) and a more automated feeder. (I also have an automated waterer, but it leaks like mad and I need to buy some replacement pieces for it.) Because chicken people love to share designs for their chicken devices, I figured …

Hi, I’m Judy Pangman, author of Chicken Coops. I want to thank Thomas P. Schoenborn and M. Boettcher for reading my book and posting reviews on Amazon.com. In response to their comments, we are correcting the description of the book to make it clear that the building plans in the book do require some construction knowledge on the part of the reader.

I wanted to clarify what the book is and …

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