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Protable Mini Coop

Conventional portable mini chicken coops can differ only in design, their size and methods of movement. Everywhere there should be a room for hens, a place for a roost and an aviary for walking. In general, nothing complicated.

 

Triangular Coop

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Triangular chicken coop (step by step photos)

Portable summer triangular chicken coop for 3-5 chickens (step by step photos).
The author of these step-by-step photos is Chris Kafer, who posted step-by-step construction photos on his blog.
15 photos - a nest where hens will be carried.
12 photos - roost (roost), where hens will sleep

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And this is a walk for such a triangular chicken coop. Continuation

 This walk should turn out to be very light, so that it would be easier to carry it around the site, it should slide. Below are step-by-step photos, the author is also Chris Kafer

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Also, for such a chicken coop, you can make a car feeder and a feeder

Car drinker	Car feeder
How to do read here (on the page below)	How to do read here (on the page below)

 

Portable chicken coop country

Naturally, in the country, a portable chicken coop can be made more decorative, for example, decorated with flowers or some kind of original design.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mini chicken coop on wheels

Think!: whether you can move the chicken coop on the site yourself, because the chickens must be moved every two days to a new area with green grass. You should think about creating chicken coops on casters, photos of which you see in the photo gallery below.

Therefore, so as not to carry the chicken coop, you can attach the wheels to the frame, then it will be mobilerather than figurative.

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Stationary chicken coop

If you do not plan to expand the number of chickens, then you can make a small chicken coop stationary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unusual chicken coop

But there is no limit to the imagination of summer residents, and if you want something unusual, then here are a few options for the fantasies of masters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The original chicken coop

And if there is absolutely no time to engage in different buildings, then why be smart, chickens can live perfectly in the closet.

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Ideal chicken coop, diagram, drawing and dimensions

In our opinion, the perfect chicken coop for a small number of chickens (4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and 12 chickens) are presented on the authoritative website of Samanka. There is a huge walk for chickens, (they love the will). There are perches, an entrance for the owner, for cleaning the chicken coop, as well as convenient baskets for eggs, from which it is very convenient to collect eggs.

 

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Coop on 9 large (12 small) chickens.

 

<- Left photo description of the elements of the chicken coop
(click on it to enlarge)

 

This chicken coop is popular in England, where it can be purchased unassembled and assembled on your own at home. What is each individual element of the chicken coop for?.

 

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Modern chicken coop MODERN (3-4 chickens)

The author of this chicken coop is Jeff Troutman (left) and Eric Millinger (right) (1 photo).

Interesting business success story:

In 2009, Jeff at school was given the task of developing a design project. In search of ideas, he was asked to develop a chicken coop design. As a result, a chicken coop, unique in design, was created, a sample of which was even exhibited at the Boulder Museum of Modern Art Museum !!! Some visitors to the museum liked the chicken coop so much that Jeff began to receive orders for production. Thus began the business of selling chicken coops.

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Details of this chicken coop are made of plywood, cut out on a laser machine according to special digital models. All parts in contact with the ground are made of cedar, for durability. All metal parts are galvanized.

The chicken coop has two modes: summer and winter. (Well, this, of course, is for American conditions) The regime differs in that in winter the ventilation slots are closed with plexiglass.

The chicken coop is sent to the buyer by mail in several packages. There are paper instructions and video instructions. Assembly time 45 minutes. The assembler only needs a screwdriver.

 

Chicken coops with a range and a nest for 3-4 chicken

Nice chicken coop for 3-4 chickens, you can keep turkeys, rabbits, ducks.

There is a spacious walk, a nest for eggs with an opening lid. The roof also opens. The chicken coop itself is not very heavy and may well succumb to carrying around the site. pay attention to the floor of the house, it is made of smooth steel and can be delivered, which provides easy cleaning of excrement.

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In the second gallery of the photo are instructions for assembling such a dwelling for birds.

All dimensions are in US units, i.e. inches, inches, fractions (they like to complicate everything).

 

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Coop with a large range for 3-4 chickens.

This model is characterized by a high walking range for chickens. The owner can easily enter the aviary. It will be very convenient for birds to play and breed in such a space. With God there is a tray for cleaning garbage, which is made of smooth steel. It is very convenient when the tray is at hand level. This allows you to clean or check the contamination of the chicken coop, without bending over again. There are also provided nests for eggs, which are also located at the level of the hands.

Such a chicken coop is quite suitable for turkeys, rabbits and other small animals.

 

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Compact chicken coop.

Also suitable for several chickens, rabbits, ducks, turkeys. One of the minuses is a small space, but but it’s easy to fit even in a small barn in winter and storage will not take up much spaceafter the chickens have grown. There is a walking area, a living room with a bedroom. Of course, if this chicken house will stand in early spring or late autumn, then it is worth thinking about warming. But the design is very light, and the owner (even the mistress) it will not be difficult to transfer it to new green grass, after the chickens in two days all the greens are leveled.

 

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Mini portable chicken coop for 10 hens

In such a chicken coop can fit up to 10 adult laying hens. At the same time, lightweight construction can allow to carry it around the site. Spacious walk. The trays are covered with smooth steel and make it easy to remove debris from the chicken coop. In the chicken coop you can go full height. There are openings on the sides of the nest for eggs, which makes it easy to harvest eggs. Also, an additional door at the back allows you to easily get inside the chicken coop. A small adjustable window under the roof will provide air circulation and hardenability of the chicken coop.

 

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Coop with 2 walks for 3-5 hens

In this house, 3 to 5 hens are easy to fit, or about a dozen chicks. Also in it can hold ducks and rabbits. The symmetry of the structure will allow the owners to drag the structure along the site evenly distributing the load on each carrier, which, incidentally, is very convenient !. Same it is possible to divide the house into two parts and contain different animals in each halffor example, chickens and ducks.

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Coop for 6-9 hens without walking

Cozy chicken coop with 6 nests.

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100+ chicken coop photos

Here we have collected all interesting photos of chicken coopswhat they found on the Internet.

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Think !!!

Building a chicken coop for 10-15 chickens is one thing,
Build a chicken coop for 100-1000 chickens is another
And for broilers this is the third.

For example, for a chicken coop for 1000 hens, you don’t have to think about winter heating, since I would have to think for a chicken coop for 5-10 hens. Here you already need to think about cooling the chicken coop and a serious ventilation system. Remember how in 2008, when a power outage Moscow killed several tens of thousands of chickens when turning off ventilation systems in poultry farms !!!

It’s advisable to breed broilers in the summer, therefore, special knowledge in warming is useless, and only a summer light portable chicken coop is considered.

Therefore, in this article we will consider the construction of a chicken coop with the conditions for maximum egg production for 5-10-15 and 20 chickens all year round

So:

Purpose: maximum egg production.

Maximum egg production - when chickens are in comfortable conditions !!!

• Cold - don't rush
• Wet - poorly carried
• Noisy - badly rushing
• Stuffy - don't rush
• Little light - poorly carried
• Hot - rush badly
• Danger - do not rush

Task: Build a chicken coop that will provide the most comfortable conditions for chickens.

For 5, 10 or 20 chickens we follow to erect two chicken coops

 

 

Winter		Summer
See 100+ Photos of Winter Coops		See 200+ photos of summer chicken coops
When and which chicken house to use, or When to transfer chickens to summer, and when to winter chicken coop
Outdoor temperature <7-15 degrees		outdoor temperature> 7-15 degrees
In general, the question is not correct, "when ...?", You need to ask at what temperature to transfer chickens to a winter chicken coop, because such a temperature (<7 degrees) can also start to smell in summer. The main thing is for the chickens to rush, and at low temperatures they do not rush, and although the chickens tolerate low temperatures well, keeping in the summer chicken house during frost does not make sense.
How to make a winter chicken coop read here		How to make a summer coop read here
See 100+ Photos of Winter Coops		See 200+ photos of summer chicken coops
Photo outside		Photo inside

 

 

 

About poles

Rectangular poles like more round. There is an opinion that chickens like round poles. This is not true. And it's easy to check.: if a chicken descends from a perch, kneads its feet, then it’s hard to sit on such a stick. But this does not happen with rectangular ones. If you put a round and rectangular pole next to it, then there will be more chickens who have chosen a rectangular pole.	0.5 m. - the distance between the poles The poles should be on the same level. If the poles will be at different levels, then this will create the prerequisites for oppression by the strong hens of the weak !!!because the strong ones always sit on the upper poles, "leaning" on those below, the weak. Then the weak begin to peck. Therefore, consider this point.
The thickness of the pole is 4 * 6 cm.	15-20 cm. Takes chicken on the pole Based on this, the total length of the poles in the chicken coop should be calculated. In summer this distance is greater, in winter it is less, because the hens try to snuggle closer together.

A couple of tips)))

No need to insulate the chicken coop, you just need to build a warm one!

Make the chicken coop beautiful, be creative, it is more pleasant to keep chickens in such a chicken coop !!!

What should be the size of the chicken coop

Sizes of a chicken coop.

For 1 square meter 4-5 hens. The larger the chicken coop, the lower this indicator, the more chickens per 1 sq. Km. m. But this does not mean that if we have 2 hens, then you can make a chicken coop in half square meters .. This is nonsense.

Tip: The larger the chicken coop, the better the chickens get along with each other.

Sizes of a chicken coop on 50 hens:

For 50 chickens it is necessary to build a chicken coop 5 by 4 meters, because 20 square meters is enough for 50 chickens. In this case, care must be taken about ventilation, as so many chickens can suffocate and rush badly.

Where to place and build a chicken coop

So where to place and build a chicken coop

• On a hill.By the way, on many sites they write what is needed on a hill, it doesn’t matter at all, it’s possible in the basement and in the dugout, the main thing is that it would be dry and not flooded
• In a quiet place! Chickens do not like noise, noise is stress, it is scientifically proven that barking a dog can reduce the laying capacity of chickens by half, so try to place the chicken coop away from the dog booths and also the road.
• In the shadow of something. You must make sure that the chickens have a view in the sun, but at the same time, and that they have a shadow in the summer heat. For example, a tree or a wall of a house. It is advised to place the walk next to the bush. A it’s better to even make one of the sides a dense shrub, there are three pluses.
  • Hens will be in the shade
  • Predators won't get to chickens
  • TOur will be able to delve into the roots, because there are many worms in the earth with roots.

In which directions to place the chicken coop.

1. The door should face east
2. Windows to the south

Well, in general, this is due to the following considerations. The door should look east only if you do not close it at night, otherwise it is pointless, because the whole point is that the hens would wake up with the first rays of the sun. Therefore, when planning, make doors or windows so that hens can see the first rays of the sun, they can also see light all day, until sunset. It increases daylight hours., and therefore egg production.

 

Walking

1. Chicken walking sizes

Must be spacious.

The more chicken walks, the greater the egg production !!!

I frankly feel sorry for these hens . Well, how can this chicken coop be touched when chickens cannot even stretch their legs, it is better not to get chickens at all than to arrange such mockery of animals. Such a small chicken coop is quite suitable for broiler chickensIt would be just perfect. It is difficult to say how many square meters you need for one chicken, because the more chickens the less space each needs, we won’t do 1000 meters of walking for 1000 hens.

Where is the best place for walking chickens

• Shadow.
  Half walk in the shade, half in the open sun.
  • The sun, chickens like to sit down for a short while and spread their wings under the rays of the sun, so some part of the walk should be open for direct sunlight
  • A shadow is needed to hide from the heat. Therefore, walking can be placed near trees, shrubs, walls of the house, a dense fence. Or you can just cover some part of the walk with slate or other opaque material.
• Security and silence.
  As we wrote, the chicken runs well when it feels safe. Therefore, protect the range from the penetration of predators. Under walking, you can dig a fine-mesh mesh or insert metal sheets half a meter into the ground along the edges of the walking. Well, again, of course, you need to take care that there is no noise around, barking dogs and roads.

What to do walking in the chicken coop, form
Grid (photo)
Pull the tunnel net over the chicken walking area.   

Coop Lighting

One of the factors influencing non-egg production is lighting

• Duration of lighting.
  How the chickens will be carried directly depends on the duration of daylight hours. Wherever you write, think for yourself that the hens should be lighted for 15 hours, experiment yourself and see where the hens rush more at 8-10 light days, as they say in some sources or with a full day at 15 hours?
  • Tips:
    • Use relay
    • Use a socket with a timer, photo.
    • Try to bring the windows west and east so that the sun shines through the windows for as long as possible.
• Lighting color.
  Backlight or artificial the light should be yellowlike the sun. This color gives incandescent lamps, but now it is fashionable to replace them with energy-saving lamps. So, in most cases, these lamps shine in a cold white or generally bluish color, so many poultry farmers wonder why this chicken does not rush in winter, because the conditions are not comfortable for hens,it’s cold and there is little lighting !!! Replacing yellow light with white reduces the productivity of chickens by 40-50%!!!!
• How to light a chicken coop
  You can light the chicken coop
  • incandescent lamps
  • energy saving lamps
  • a bottle of water in the ceiling (photo), of course there is not much light, but if the chickens walk in the afternoon during the walk, then this option will work well to lighten the chicken coop slightly during the day and save electricity.
  • infrared lamp
    • a plus: extra heat
    • minus: increased power consumption

The size of the windows in the chicken coop

windows should occupy 1/5 of the floor area.

As you can see, the formula is simple, and this lighting is enough to illuminate the chicken coop with sunlight in the winter and keep warm.

Litter

• from sawdust
  the most recommended material, easy to get, easy to clean
• from straw
• from hay
• roosts
  it can be roosted as in this photo, under which you can place a removable sheet of smooth metal to automate the cleaning of the chicken house a little

Feeders

Sizes of chicken feeders

The size of the feeder is usually not limited to anything.

What to make a feeder in the chicken coop

• Made of wood.
  Traditionally, such feeders are made for grain, but now more and more poultry farmers are making feeders from PVC pipes, read the paragraph about auto feeders
• Made of plastic.
  It is advisable to make such feeders for raw writing, for example, for crushed potatoes or leftover food from the table.

Car feeders

To increase egg production, chickens must constantly have grain. I think no need to explain why. Providing this is not easy. If you make a large feeder, then the chickens will be in it

• to climb
• defecate,
• to spread grain with their beak (they love it).
• Attracts the attention of rodents

You can make such a feeding trough photo

Auto chicken feeders. DIY options.

Look at the photo below, which interesting bird feeders can be made from improvised means. But from ordinary PVC sewer pipes!
(The first photo on the left shows the main three easiest options)

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Having fallen asleep once in a feeder, you do not have to worry about it for a week or more, depending on the size of the feeder. See photos of the feeders.

Feeder for a triangular chicken coop. Step by step photos

Consider the creation of an automatic feeder for a triangular portable chicken coop, the creation of which we wrote above. Photo and author Chris Kafer

Such a seasoned feeder is enough for chickens for a week.
1 photo - what we have to buy in the store for a feeder and a wooden drive
2 photos - an insert is inserted into the tee that will adjust the height (level) of the grain
4 photos - a wooden disk is inserted into the bottom of the tee, which regulates the lower grain level.
6 photos - the location of the hole in which we place our feeder.
7 photos - all complete.

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Chicken house drinkers

PVC pipe drinker

Auto ideas and photos by Chris Kafer. According to him, the chickens literally in a couple of minutes mastered this drinker, contrary to expectations.

This drinking bowl is suitable for any chicken coop, we will consider it as an example of installation in a triangular portable chicken coop, the creation of which we considered above.

Auto drinking bowl for a triangular chicken coop, step by step photos.
1 photo - nipples that open when the valve is pressed.
2 photos - PVC pipe with nipples inserted into it.
4 photos - an overturned chicken coop with a chicken car drink inserted into it.
7 photos - a chicken that drinks from a car drinker

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Where to place the feeder in the chicken coop.

The feeder should be in:

• Dry place
• In the shadow.
  That food and water would not heat up in the sun and spoil

Tips:

• Pour into the water a little chalk, so the shell will be stronger
• They advise to beat the wooden floor with a metal sheet, so it will be easier to keep the floor clean
• When painting the chicken coop, check the paint for toxicity.
• It is better to do the floor at an angle, this will provide both easier cleaning and the draining of a suddenly caught liquid from the chicken coop.
• Next to the chicken coop, you can make a covered pit for food waste, where you can throw leftovers from the table, cabbage leaves, peel from onions. Chickens love to rummage around in such places, finding minerals for themselves.
• The installation of double-glazed windows can save money on lighting and heating. To prevent the chickens from getting sick, the walls in the chicken coop are treated with lime
• Ventilation
  It should be possible to close the ventilation tight in the winter, with the option to open not for long for ventilation.

 

The method of building a chicken coop dugout:

Calculation for 20 curia

Digging a hole 1.65 m wide, 2.15 m long. 1.1 in depth.

We lay bricks at the bottom of the pit, then 10-15 cm of sand. Then we lay the cross-members in the wall at the level of 60 cm. Then we make the walls of the tiles with clay (you can use other materials at hand.) We cover the roof with roofing material (or other material). Inside we set perches, outside we do walking.

The walls of the pit are bricked with cement, then the brick is lined with boards
Brick coops are more complex, but more durable, unlike wooden ones, which are susceptible to corrosion, rot and parasite damage.

Sex in the chicken coop

The floor must be strong !!!
To prevent predators from getting into the chicken coop, the floor must be strong. It could be concrete or brick.