It’s time to start planning your new chicken cage design. Too many floor plans and layouts choices can seem puzzling. In this article we’ll examine the purposes and different types of chicken houses.
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It’s easy to decide which type of chicken cage to use when you consider some details. For instance: number of chickens, available space for building, the need for portability. These are all important things to consider. For example if you want to move your henhouse around your yard for easy care and you only want a few chickens, a portable coop may best fit your needs.
Let’s look at the small coop design first. Small coops of course holds only a minimum number of chickens. Most small henouses will accommodate two to six chickens. These small pens are used for keeping chickens as pets. Small coops are usually constructed like little playhouses or sheds with fencing all around. Thus preventing your chickens for flying out and wandering onto the property of your neighobors.
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Medium chicken coop designs are about the same as the small chicken coop designs except they hold more chickens. Even though a midium sized chicken coop can hold two times the amount of hens as the small coop, it is not adequate for raising chickens for gain. Whether from the hens themselves or their eggs, the number of hens you can raise in a small or medium coop will not produce enough of either to be profitable.
Moveable chicken coops lend themselves to small and medium sized coops. If you choose to house many of chickens but want a portable coop, build several mid-size rather than one large coop.
finally the large chicken cage designs. Large hen houses, have no limitations. You simple make them as large as necessary to accommodate the number of hens you are raising. Have at least 6 sq ft per chicken, better still try for 10 sq ft if room is available. So for twenty chickens that would be 200 sq ft of run area.
For urban dwellers a closed in moveable chicken cage is a beneficial choice. Closing in the pen area will prevent your hens from becoming your neighbor’s pests, as well as reduce the chances of them getting loose and getting hit by passing cars or neighborhood pets such as dogs or cats. But if you have your home in the country this may not be such an issue.
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