Chicken Coop Building Plans

Among all of the various architecture designs for chicken coops, the “A-frame” chicken coop is decidedly one of the easiest to build. As the name of this type of coop indicates, the frame is shaped like the letter “A”. It is triangular in shape. In fact it is so easy to build, that as long as you have all of the materials, it can be built in less than one day. All you need are the plywood boards, a drill or a nail gun, some nails, or screws, and a saw.

A well-designed chicken coop should not cost very much to build. It should be able to accommodate multiple nests, multiple perches, a place for eating and drinking. Very important is the fact that your coup must have wire mesh to cover any windows and doors, to keep predators out and to keep the chickens in.

Before you get started on building it, here are some very important design considerations that you should think about as part of the planning process:

1. How many chickens do you intend to house in your chicken coop? You need to provide enough space for each chicken to have access to a nest, to perches, to the designated areas for eating and drinking.

2. How much egg production output are you expecting to get from your chickens?

3. Are you aware of any predators (animals that might want to come and attack or eat your chickens) that you need to keep your chickens safe from, in the general area? Security of your chickens is important since dogs and other such animals may take an interest in and try to assault your chickens.

4. How are you going to protect your chickens during adverse weather conditions? Will your coop provide adequate shelter and protection against the elements?

5. Are you going to allow your chickens some degree of freedom to roam around in the yard? Can you build a fenced enclosure around the sheltered parts of the coop?

6. Do you want your chicken coop to be equipped with wheels, so as to be mobile? You may have certain situations where it is desirable to move your chicken coop around in the yard, to change its orientation against the sun, to move it under or move it out from under trees, to bring it closer to the house, or to move it out of the way due to the need to perform some yard work.

Addressing each of these considerations is important, if you wish to raise some happy chickens!

Raising chickens can be a fun and rewarding experience, but knowing how to raise them can be a challenge sometimes. Check out my website if you want to learn more about raising chickens and Learn More About how to build an a-frame chicken coop.

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Old-fashioned sleuthing and some well-timed media exposure have helped shed light on a man whose First World War medal was found in a Chatham, Ont., chicken coop 40 years ago.

The medal was awarded to Lance Cpl. William Evlyn Skinner, who died in the Battle of Amiens on Aug. 8, 1918, and is buried in Villers, France.

Until now, little was known about Skinner, who was just 18 when he enlisted in 1915, unmarried and likely childless.

His story came to light in November, when the man who found his medal 40 years ago, Andy VanDerMolen, brought it to Dave Benson, the director of the Chatham-Kent Museum.

Laurel Van Dommelen of Wallaceburg, Ont., was living in England when she heard Skinner’s story. An avid genealogist, she went through census records and found a William Skinner whose age and birthplace matched those of Cpl. Skinner.

She also found the names of parents and siblings and discovered an older brother James, whose next of kin was listed as Florence Brown of Chatham, the city where the medal was found.

This was “the first eureka moment,” Benson told CBC News on Thursday.

The second came after two other genealogists, Carol and Eugene Lusk, who own the property where the medal was found, also got to work.

They discovered that William, James and their sister Florence had all travelled to Canada in the early 1900s as British Home Children, part of a large-scale program that sent more than 100,000 destitute children to Canada from Great Britain between 1869 and the early 1930s to work on farms and as servants.

James, who was in the army, saved enough money to pay his mother’s fare to Canada. Eleanor Skinner settled in Detroit, the city where William was living when he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915.

Finally, the genealogists found Florence’s daughter, one Dorothy McNaughton, a 91-year-old resident of London, Ont.

When Benson contacted her, McNaughton confirmed what little she knew of her mother’s family: that her grandmother, Eleanor, had lived in Detroit but had returned to Chatham after the war to settle with Florence. She suspects Eleanor brought William’s medal with her to Chatham.

How the medals ended up in a chicken coop may never be solved.

VanDerMolen found the medal in the 1960s as he gathered eggs in a chicken coop in the backyard of his parents’ home.

“I thought it was kind of neat and interesting,” VanDerMolen told CBC News in November, when the story first came out. “I took it to school and showed the kids, then I pretty much lost interest in it and put it away.”

He put the medal in a tin box for safekeeping, along with some old coins and other medals. He didn’t pull it out again until late 2009, when he contacted Benson at the museum.

The medal, Benson discovered, was a Victory Medal, a circular copper medal given to “all ranks of the fighting forces” who served in the First World War, according to Veterans Affairs Canada.

On one side, the winged figure of Victory stands holding a palm branch in her right hand. On the other, the words “The Great War For Civilisation” and the dates “1914-1919″ are inscribed, surrounded by a wreath.

Skinner’s rank, name and service number are inscribed on the medal’s rim.

“It’s personally very satisfying,” Benson said of cracking the mystery.

McNaughton and her son have told Benson they would like to see the medal. He will present it to them at a private reception on Jan. 22.

Chicken Rearing 101 – How Not to Raise Chickens
 by: Nola L. Kelsey

Chick: A hatchling

Capon: A castrated male used for meat. (How much could that yield?)

Pullet: A female chicken under one year old.

Hen: A female chicken over one year of age

Rooster: A male chicken over one year of age.

Raising Chickens for the first time can be intimidating. When I first called the Feed Shop, I was trying to sound like a pro. I asked, “Do you sell pullets?” “Yes”, the man replied. “Are they all females?” It’s been an uphill battle ever since.

Pullet parenthood is an much of an adventure as child rearing, only with more feces per pound of body weight. However, I’ve been reading quite a bit on poultry matters. (Yes, my coolness just turned over in its grave.) So if I am correct and I am quite certain I am not, here is how chicken rearin’ goes.

Go to your local feed store and purchase $10.00 worth of chicks and $50 worth of food and supplies. Don’t forget the water dispensers. Buying the metal ones, never plastic is always advised. I have yet to see a metal one.

Next, place the chicks somewhere sheltered, like a bedroom closet. Toss in some highly flammable straw or wood shavings and promptly dangle a glowing heat lamp just above them. Note to self: Update homeowner’s policy.

For the next several weeks feed them 3 lbs of food per day and remove 4 lbs of sh*t per day from the closet. Despite all logic the birds get bigger. As the adult feathers grow in be sure to clip one of their wings. That is one per bird, not just one wing total. If clipping is done late chicks will nest in your toilet. This is a bad thing.

Clipping can be accomplished by tossing your scissors and your body into the heaping mound of chicks, poop and straw. Grab a wiggling screeching bird from the bile pile. Restrain it with one hand. Stretch the wing out with your second hand. Clip off 50% of the wings outer ten feathers with your third hand.

As the birds grow adjust the heat light temperature down by one degree per day. No, this is not actually possible. That’s not my point. You start at 100 degrees for hatchlings then continue down by one degree per day until your bedroom is a minimum of 3 degrees cooler than the spring blizzard outside your window.

Once you have frozen your ear to your semi-cannibalistic down pillow and the chicks have grown their adult feathers, they can be moved outside to the coop. I estimate the initial closet rearing stage to have taken five years.

Before the move, experience the Joy of Wing Clipping one more time. Feather clipping never works the first time. No one knows why. Still, after all the hassle you probably don’t want them to fly the coop in under sixty seconds. Of course, if you’re like me, by this time you may be inclined to pack them each a lunch and leave a stack of Greyhound tickets by the open coop gate.

Regarding habitat construction: Hen houses and chicken coops are a competitive art form. There are a myriad of web sites showing off architectural designs from Chicken Chateaus to Bird Bordellos. The meticulous craftsmanship makes my own home look like – well – like a chicken coop.

Always fashionable, I went with a shabby chic motif for my coop. The nesting boxes are an eclectic mix of stolen milk crates affixed to the wall by anything in arms reach. As for the coop itself, there is a gift for tight chicken wire, which eludes me. Quite frankly, my first attempt at a coop looks like Dr. Seuss dropped a hit of acid, blasted some Jefferson Starship and rolled around on the wire with every Who in Whoville. I think I’ll keep it.

Inferior design aside, I ultimately learned a thing or two. The nesting boxes are supposed to be up off the ground. That is correct. For those of you keeping score you just spent two weeks cutting back the birds flight feathers only to hang their houses in the sky. It’s just sick.

Higher than the nest boxes, you are to build a roost. This is where the birds crap at night so they do not crap on your breakfast eggs. Of course the roost is usually OVER the nesting boxes, so whatever you do, don’t use those perforated plastic milk crates.

For young birds maintain a heat light in the hen house. Then on cooler nights an animal with a brain the size of an bulimic toe nail clipping will make the conscious decision to forgo your nest boxes, bypass the instinctual roost and leap into a tanning bed.

And finally there is the feed regime. I asked several experts and read up on feeding as well. Make sure to give your chickens, starter formula, mash, growth formula, start & grow, brood formula, grit, no grit, scraps, no scraps, goat placenta, nothing suggested on the internet, tetramyaicn, no antibiotics, medicated starter, non-medicated starter and never ever switch in-between.

I may not be Queen of the Coop yet, but I’m working on it. Though I am still a zoologist and I still know Birds 101. Here are two myths I can help with. First, you do not need a rooster to get eggs. Most folk, especially those who have never owned chickens, will advise you on chickens. Each will insist you need a rooster for a while to do his manly duties, then you can slip him in the pot. As appealing as this concept is, your pot is a separate issue.

Roosters are only needed to make fertile eggs. Hens are all that is needed to make breakfast eggs. Fertile eggs are just peachy if raising chicks was such a joy the first time you want to repeat the whole freakin’ process. In addition there is always the risk of breaking a fertilized egg open and finding a 50% formed chick fetus hitting your hot skillet. Yum! Years of therapy will follow.

To keep it straight in your mind consider this: You are going about your life. Suddenly massive balls of calcium start stacking up inside your abdomen. Are you going to hold on to them just because you have not had sex lately?

The second bird myth is totally unrelated so I thought I would mention it. Penguins occur in nature from the Equator on Southward. That is down to the Antarctica, not the Arctic! No, they do not hang out with Polar Bears who live in the Arctic. No, you did not see them when you worked in Alaska, in the Arctic. Those were puffins. No, I am not sorry you look stupid to all those folks you told penguin tales to.

Yes, some penguin species even reside on the Galapagos Islands at the equator (Cold weather would kill them), not floating around on icebergs – and not in the Arctic! Yes, I realize my eggs are not all in one basket. Delusional, close-minded people who insist you need a rooster to fertilize your penguin eggs so polar bears won’t loose their food supply drove me crazy!

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The preceding was an excerpt from the scathingly wicked satire Bitch Unleashed: The Harsh Realities of Goin’ Country. A free e-book copy of Bitch Unleashed is available on Nola Kelsey’s web site at http://www.NolaKelsey.com.

The story of a First World War medal that wound up in a chicken … – Yahoo! Canada News Photos

The story of a First World War medal that wound up in a chicken coop in Chatham, Ont., came to an end when the 91-year-old medal was returned to the soldier’s family.

Farmville Chicken Coop Expansion?

in the storage section on farmville where you expand your storage it says chicken coop.. ''coming soon'' ???????? when is soon?? its been ages since it appeared and i really need to expand!!!! same with the dairy farm!!?

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That’s all the news for today guys, so until next time, thanks for stopping by.