Chicken Coop Designs To Help You With Building Your Chicken Coop

Chicken coop designs need not be terribly complicated, but they must always be designed with the comfort and safety of your chickens in mind using professionally crafted chicken coop plans. Having a good construction will ultimately be dependant on proper coop designs that don't leave anything out.

Here are just a few of the most important points pertinent to any chicken coop designs:

• Adequate protection from predators
• Proper ventilation including windows and doors
• Close-by water source
• Elevated feeders
• A roosting area
• Good lighting
• Very easy to clean and maintain

Here are below in more details some of the points above.

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The chicken coop design need to cater for proper protection of your chicken from predators. It is quite common that chicken and eggs simply disappear during the night, so you end up waking the next morning with nothing but a few feathers and a broken egg in the coop. To prevent something like that from happening, you need to ensure that your final product, your chicken coop, will have a good protection system in place that won't allow any wild animals digging under coop fence to enter and steal your treasures.

The welfare of your chickens is paramount, so any design should allow for excellent ventilation in the way of windows that can be opened and shut with ease, which will also need sturdy mesh over them to prevent intruders getting in, or your chickens getting out.

Good insulation is a must, particularly in areas where the winter can be particularly harsh.
The timber you use should be of good quality with no sharp edges to prevent the chickens cutting themselves. If you decide to paint the coop remember to use lead free paint to avoid poisoning the flock.

Water must be accessible at all times but once again a water container must be covered. Automatic water dispensers are round in shape in order to allow several chickens at a time to drink. This container must be cleaned and refreshed every day to avoid disease and keep your chickens healthy.

Feeders for the chickens are best if elevated as this prevents the chickens from defecating into the food. However, if you intend to keep quite a lot of chickens this can work out quite expensive as many feeders will be necessary. A standard feeder is quite adequate but must be covered in order to prevent contamination, and other creatures stealing the food.

Chickens like to roost at night since this is basically where they sleep.  The roosting bars should be up higher than the nesting boxes.

The design should allow for easy access into the coop for cleaning purposes. Therefore the door must be big enough to allow entering with broom and bucket, and also for gathering the eggs. The larger the area for access, the easier the cleaning operation will be.

You can of course design the coop in such a way as to have access to the nesting areas from outside. In other words small doors by the nests allow you to retrieve the egg without entering the coop. This is purely a matter of choice, but one you should consider when thinking of the design.

The size of your chicken run will depend upon the size of your flock, but exercise is good for the chickens so make sure you allow enough space for them to enjoy digging around in the earth. Also ensure the edges are dug down into the earth to avoid escape under the wire, or predators getting in.

If you take time and care when designing your coop you will get many years of service from it, and your chickens will give you a good crop of eggs throughout the year. It may be worth considering designing a coop that will stand a little way off of the floor. This will help to prevent damp penetrating into the floorboards, and will also assist ventilation.

Chicken coop designs are varied but if you work out where you want the coop to be in relation to the house, it will help you to choose the design which will be most pleasing and adequate for your needs.