Easy Chicken House Plans

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If you like the taste of farm-fresh eggs but are miles from the farm, consider raising a few chickens yourself.

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Grimsby Birdman Big Al offers coop guidance to amateur Eggheads.Takes you into the coop. The pace is frenetic, the action shocking. It’s impossible not to empathise with him and his close knit flock.

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I converted a lean-to (shack) into a chicken coop. The coop is approx 5′ x 9′. I have a book called “back to basics” that we got at a garage sale. It had some guide lines and measurements that I utilized. I used mainly old plywood and wood we had laying around so I didn’t have to buy much wood. The hens will be six months old in a couple of weeks, and that’s about the time they start laying eggs. We got 4 – Rhode Island Reds (brown eggs), 2 – Buff Orphingtons (brown eggs), and 4 – Americanas (blue or green eggs)

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This video is in response to questions about what to feed your chickens when they start laying their first eggs.

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