Birds House Programs: Best Protection From Hazardous Elements

  

A good chicken’s house can protect the chickens from unsafe elements such as the weather, predators, and injury.  

This is how to do it:

Protection from Weather

A dry, draft-free house is needed in poultry.  This can be done by building a comparatively draft-free poultry house with windows and doors which can on occasion be opened for ventilation when necessary.  Build the chicken house on high, well-drained areas.  Thru this chickens plan, prolonged moistness and water saturation of the floor within the coop and in the runs outside can be prevented.  Let the front of the coop, the windows, and the outside run face to the south also.  This permits the sun to consistently warm and dry the coop.  To keep the humidity level in the coop small, permit a satisfactory level of space per bird too.  

Protection from Predators

The only way to give protection to the chickens from predators is to keep the birds house completely confined with fence and covered runs.  When arranging a poultry house, consider laying a concrete floor, and secure the wall with one or two concrete blocks.  This hinders predators from digging under the walls and the floors.  When the coop is opened, windows and doors must be soundly covered with heavy-gauge mesh wire or screening.  

With outside runs, bury the wire into the ground along the pen border with 12 inches depth and toe the fence outward about 6 inches.  Through this way, it will help to stop most predators from digging under the fence.  By toeing the fence outward and burying it, the predator will dig down right into more fencing.  

To deter predators, some individuals run electrical fencing around the exterior of their pens 4 inches off the ground and about one foot from the key fence.  

Protection from Injury

Plan your bird’s house to prevent any possible injury to your chickens.  Take out any loose or ragged wire, nails, or other sharp-edged objects from the coop.  Get rid of all the areas aside from perches, where the chickens could perch more than four feet above the floor.  Get rid of any perching areas such as window ledges, nest box tops, or electrical cords whenever possible.  These measures could prevent any injury to you or your chickens and may stop damage to the house, also.

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