/diy/ - Do It Yourself

good plan. I fucking lvoe chickens; they lay eggs and when they cant lay eggs no mo, u can cook them (boil them for a couple of hours, serve with rice and a curry-sauce).

as for the chicken coop:
1) make it spaceous
2) make sure that wolfs/dogs/cats cant get in
3) make sure they got a light and proper heating (heatlamp during the night f you live somewhere cold)
4) they need a place to rest/sit, preferably with hay
5) somewhere to have water
6) I believe they like windows, but I may be mistaken here.
7) go nuts!

Chicken wire is called that for a reason. My neighbor has chickens, I think. I'll ask tomorrow to take pictures of their setup if this thread can live until then.

You should put a fucking bubbling brook water feature in there. Hens love slow, shallow rivers.

>>42220
to add to some of your points:
2) make sure fucking weasels and things like that can't get in. They are a menace. Also, make sure they have some cover to get under outside, in case a hawk or something flies over. Your garden might already have this. (we always had things like raspberry bushes).

3) Depending on the size of the coop, their body heat might be enough heat. It's fairly cold where I live, but we never had heating in the barn, even in winter and it stayed fairly warm in there.
If the coop is just big enough for the four chickens, then you probably don't need heating, but if you're converting a shed or something into a coop, a heat lamp would be a good idea.

6) Windows aren't really... necessary, but it's a good idea to have some light inside the coop (chickens don't seem to have good night vision).

Also, if you need to keep them in the yard, make sure your fence is quite high. You'd be surprised how high chickens can fly. If you have some fat dual purpose bird, this won't be a problem, but if you have bantums you may even need to clip their wings.

Chickens are not very good for herding though, they have a tendancy to fly instead of run, so they can get all over the place.

>>42309
couldnt agree more.
here, have some tits for being such a gentleman.

>>42336
although your thanks, followed by a reward is appreciated, this is a work safe board and I would like to keep it that way.

- tilted solid roof to slide rain and other crap

- 4 solid walls but 1 wall isn't connected to the other walls
(put chicken wire on the gaps to prevent any thing from getting in)
(also gap should be big enough to fit 2 or 3 fingers to let light in and air out the coup)

-sliding door or make the detached wall the door
(both options should have latch [i like the latch you could put a lock on with the rotating head just put a small stick in the hole at night]


- flooring: whatever (i got plastic [to make it easier to clean] and just put enough hay to cover the floor

>>43018
also forgot should be of the ground a bit (could use the detached wall as a ramp but it would be too much trouble to herd them in)