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Chicken Coop Designs

November 20, 2009

If you’ve taken an interest in chicken-raising, either as a hobby or a way to acquire eggs and chicken meat without having to buy them from the grocery store, how to house your new birds will be one of the first things you want to tackle. The standard for housing poultry is to build them a comfortable chicken coop to live in. Of course, how you construct it will vary depending on your specific scenario, how many chickens you plan on keeping, what kind of area you live in, and so forth.

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A Simple DIY Chicken Coop Plan

October 15, 2009

I needed to build a chicken coop for my hens. I bought a guide and chose the plan that best suited for my garden. I have four hens but using this plan you can build a chicken coop for any number of chickens you have.

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Tips for Chicken Coop Construction

September 6, 2009

Having a chicken coop in your backyard may be a profitable idea, but there are a few guidelines you must follow to be successful with this venture. If you don’t, it is most likely that your chickens will not lay eggs and you will become frustrated. Here are the factors you must be aware of.

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Small Chicken Coop Tips

September 3, 2009

The Advantages of Small Chicken Coops

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Chicken Coop Design

September 2, 2009

I first heard about people raising chickens in their own gardens back in 2004, when a friend of mine started doing it because he liked organic food and knowing that the eggs he ate came from animals that were treated and raised in a humane manner. He decided the only way to know for sure about that was if he raised the chickens himself. He did a lot of research on the different aspects of chicken coop design, and then he built two pretty decent-sized coops in his back garden, since it’s pretty large. A few weeks after that we went over and my wife heard about it, and then nothing would do but that we raised some chickens of our own.

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