Finding The Best Chicken Coop Plans

There are many offers of chicken coop plans online, but which of these will result in a good-quality working chicken house? If you know all about chickens and how to design happy and healthy housing for them, are good at detailed planning, making your own blueprints from basic plans or diagrams, producing a detailed list of materials before starting to put your hen house together, as well as being an experienced carpenter, then you will probably get by with any type of chicken coop plans you come across.

Or you might discover how much time and money you have wasted, and you could end up building a chicken house that proved to be a very unhappy and unsafe environment for your poultry. Good blueprints, accurate planning and expert guidance are the vital elements for building a successful hen house.

As a minimum you should include the following in your planning:

• Selecting a suitable site for the hen house in your yard or garden

• Calculating the correct size of chicken house for the number of hens

• Ensuring there is adequate ventilation and lighting in the coop

• Choosing the layout and type of feeders and nesting boxes

• Designing adequate safeguards from predators

• Considering any services to be supplied to the chicken coop such as electricity and water supplies

In practice most people will need some help from chicken experts to do this planning completely, and will depend on accurate blueprints rather than sketchy plans and vague diagrams to build a proper hen house. Without such blueprints there is a good chance you will not achieve a good functional chicken coop, it might not be strong enough and it might give ready access for predators.

If you take a casual approach to chicken coop plans you will end up wasting both time and money, your enthusiasm will take a dive and – perhaps most importantly – you will not get the enjoyment and satisfaction you should be getting. In addition, unhappy or unhealthy hens are poor layers, so you will be denied those lovely free-range eggs you had so eagerly anticipated.

Before you can start assembling your hen house you will need to make a complete list of all materials required. This is vital, otherwise you will certainly encounter stoppages during the assembly when you discover you have left out some bracket or other and the local hardware store has closed for the day! It is quite difficult to make a complete materials list, and we can honestly say that it is so much better (and safer) to let a chicken coop expert do it for you.

Without such an expert to guide you, it is very easy to make mistakes during assembly. Often these mistakes will not become obvious until you have finished, and by then it could be too late to sort out any problems. It is certainly worth investing a few dollars to get professional advice and tips along the way, and usually these come with the step-by-step instructions provided in top-quality chicken coop planning kits. We have discovered that good blueprints and clear instructions actually save money and time in the long run.

We have located and highly recommend a very experienced chicken expert, Bill Keene. He has produced a great range of chicken coop plans, including all the necessary information, step-by-step instructions, drawings, blueprints, material lists and professional guidance for you to plan and make a hen house that will fit your particular requirements perfectly. He will ensure you do not make all the usual first-time mistakes, and also show you how to produce a happy, safe and healthy home for your birds.  Bill Keene is the best source of good plans for making a wonderful chicken coop.

Good luck and have fun with your chickens!