Chicken with your own hands on 10 chickens

Bird breeding is a simple, interesting and profitable occupation, because even a few non-bumps will be able to provide eggs with the whole family. But that the chiches do not rush and rush well, it is necessary to provide them with a living space, simply speaking, build a good chicken coop.

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Chicken with her own hands on 10 chickens - an inexpensive option

The most economical way is to adapt to a smoking shed smoking.

• Free from the rubble room.
• Along one wall, make a way, securing a couple of troika from two sides.
• The height of the floor is 60-80 cm.
• The distance from the wall is at least half a meter so that the bird tails do not rest in it. From the same material to build a staircase and come down to the lower crossbar.

IMPORTANT: the thickness of the semissal bar must be such that the chicken can fully grab her paws and do not fall during sleep.

• Equip the nests - a place where the chickens bear eggs. Make a box of plywood, broken inside by partitions on small nest apartments.

• An alternative box can become ordinary wooden and plastic boxes, and baskets without pens. Whatever you nest do, will certainly warm it straw. Put the cock on the floor - a tidy fence, and pour the feed to the bowl.

• You can walk the bird throughout or cut the grid a small pasture near the construction.

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Chicken with her own hands on 10 chickens - a complicated option

Build a chicken coop from scratch is difficult, but in this case there are its advantages. Before starting construction, everything is calculated - the size and location of the structure, the material used, internal and external arrangement.

Draft chicken coop

Starting the construction is needed from the drawing, which is performed after choosing a place for the poultry house.

Important: For a dozen chickens, the main premises area should be at least 4.5 sq.m.

• Take a place for the smokehouse with a small slope.
• Sketch the poultry sketch on paper, without forgetting to designate the door, windows, a lase, a pad for walking.

For clarity, look at the photo of the chicken coop presented below.

Bookmark Fundament

For hardening and durability, put a barn on the foundation.

• Drop by the perimeter of the future structure of trenches 50 by 25 cm, the bottom of which flood with sand and rubble.
• Put the formwork by strengthening the polyethylene film on it, and lay the concrete. Formwork height - 25 cm above the ground.

Give the foundation to stand for two weeks, then proceed to construction.

Construction of carcass

Walls in the barn start from the installation of frame bones, taking a wooden bar or logs as the basis. In the poultry house, a single roof is admissible, so we make the erection walls above the rear, and the sidewalls are undermine the base, forming an angle of the skate. Bar take - 100 x 150 mm.

• Put the timber, securing it on the foundation by anchor bolts, and between themselves.
• Put the vertical stands on the joints of the design, tied them at the top of the rails. In the middle of the opening of future walls, recreate additional boards.
• Secure the bar, referring to the places where you intend to make the door, windows for natural ventilation and LAZ.
• Raise the frame to the desired height and adjust the ceiling beams.

Further steps

• On rafters, using the stapler, attach the waterproofing film. From above it pinch the crate and put the selected roofing canvas.
• Walls cover with clapboard or plywood, insulates the lumen between the timber and boards sawdust.
• Floors do double, not forgetting to fill the intermediate space of mineral wool. On the floor of the salt of the straw, and the pesets, nests, and drink the same as the principle that in the first case. For feeders, adjust the drawers, having to have them at a height of 10 cm from the floor.

That's all the recommendations that will help you build a convenient and reliable smut. To better delve into the process, look at the video about how to make a house for chickens yourself.