Chicken Coop Designs
Facilities for Your Chicken Coop Designs
You can have chickens, but knowing how to take care of them is paramount. Things will come up, and over time you will discover them on your own, but wouldn’t it be nice to know them ahead of time? Let’s talk about a few of the unexpected circumstances that can occur.
A Sick Chicken:
If you have a chicken feeling under the weather, you may notice that the other chickens pick on it. This seems rather cruel, but things work differently in nature. The rule is that only the strong survive, and that might not sit very well with you. The best thing to do is have a separate pen set aside. This can be either within the coop or outside of it, just make sure that the chicken has access to food and water. Make sure that you keep an eye on the chicken, especially if you have a cover on the pen. It WILL try to jump out of the pen, and it will end up hurting itself. In the worst case scenario it will break it’s neck and die right there. If you want to prevent this from happening, then you should refrain from putting a lid on the pen. The chicken will jump out once it is feeling better.
New Chickens:
When you buy new chickens, they come to your in the form of chicks.
There is a difference in size, as you can imagine, and because these new chickens do not belong to the grown hens, you will need to make sure they are quarantined. You can keep them in a pen separate from your other chickens, and such an area should be figured into all Chicken Coop Designs. Make sure that the baby chickens have access to a heat lamp, as they can die rather easily from the slightest cold
Oops, I Bought the Wrong Chickens:
This is a common mistake, and in some cases different breeds of chickens might not get along. In this case you should have a separate pen for another species of grown chickens. You will need to determine what to do with these chickens if they cannot get along with one another. For instance, laying hens might get along well with one another even if they are a different species. For some reason though, chickens raised to be eaten do not fare well with laying hens. Does that make sense? Absolutely not. As an experienced chicken farmer though, I can tell you that for some reason it will happen. On that note, do not try to slaughter and eat your laying hens. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s definitely not going to make the best meal.
Paint:
If your chicken coop designs involve painting the coop, make sure that you buy a paint that is not lead based. You don’t want your chickens getting sick from it, that’s for sure. Don’t let that stop you from painting the coop, just be aware.
Sharp edges, rat poison, holes in the yard, low ceilings:
These are all things that you need to watch out for. It’s all too easy to walk into the coop and find one of your beloved chickens dead as the result of eating poison or cutting themselves on a sharp edge.
Are you ready to build your coop?
Great!
Chicken coop designs are fun to plan out and execute. Chickens themselves are a pleasure to watch and great fun to interact with. So get busy!
