Building and Buying a Chicken coop

If you’ve been looking for a chicken coop, you have a large number of options to choose from. You can find a number of chicken coop designs and plans if you surf the web. You can even pick up instructions from the web to build your own chicken coop. In order to build a decent chicken coop you will need the following:



·         100mm x 100mm Hardwood timber posts

·         90mm x 45mm pine for internal framing

·         90mm x 20mm hardwood decking for door frames

·         12 ply plywood sheeting for floor and nesting boxes

·         20mm x 20 mm wire mesh for cage and gates

·         Galvanised corrugated iron sheets for roof and walls

·         Galvanised gutter and down pipe

·         Galvanised hinges for chicken run gates and nesting box door

·         Self-tapping roof screws for iron sheets

·         Recycled hardwood timber plank 200mm x 25mm for ramp access to coop for chickens

Of course there are different ways to build a chicken coop and you can always buy one as well. The good thing is that these little chicken homes are not very expensive. You can also order chicken houses online. Browse through a few websites to get to know about the different chicken coop plans being offered by various manufacturers and simply select the kind you like the most. You can always give your own requirements and have one custom built as per your convenience. This might cost you a little more but in the end you would have a perfect chicken coop.