Keep Your Chickens In A Fine Chicken House

The kids would like a pet. You’ve considered dogs but they bark loudly, mess up the lounge and poop in places you don’t want them to. You consider a cat but they catch native animals and aren’t environmentally friendly. Have you considered chickens?

There’s a whole host of reasons why chickens make wonderful pets. They don’t bark, and provided you don’t buy a rooster the neighbours won’t complain about the noise. They don’t smell and they don’t dig holes under the fence. They’re cheap to feed, need very little work and are fun day at around. Kids just love chickens, mine spend hours playing with them.

And on top of that you have an added bonus. Eggs.

When it comes to buying a pet so few people think about getting chickens. If your council allows you to have chickens at home, and most do, it’s certainly worth considering. However before you buy those first few chickens there’s one thing that you will need. A good chicken house.

Although it need not be large chickens do need good housing. The house should provide them with a sheltered nesting box where they can lay their eggs as well as some perches where they can roost to sleep at night. Part of the chicken house should be undercover, particularly where they sleep, so they are not subject to bad weather at night.

A good hen house is easy to build. A large part of the chicken house is simply wire mesh, and building a chicken house is a simple matter of building a frame of treated timber and covering the frame with wire. It is usually unnecessary to have a floor on the house as it sits on the ground.

For a small number of chickens, say 3 or 4, it is not necessary that it be particularly large. For 3 or 4 chickens it’s perfectly possible to build a hen house with handles on one end and wheels on the other so that you can move around the garden. During the day most people allow the chickens to free range in the garden eating those pesky bugs that have been attacking your vegetables and flowers.

Building a chicken house is the perfect handyman project. Get together with the kids one afternoon, after finding a simple set of plans on the Internet, and start building your own chicken house. It shouldn’t be expensive or difficult to do and it’s a great way to spend some quality time with the kids.

So if you’ve been searching around for a great idea for a pet for the children and consider getting your own chickens. Spend some quality time with the kids showing in your handyman skills building a simple chicken house and you’ll have happy kids, happy chickens and lots of eggs for dinner.

Find a good recipe book, get started learning how to make omelettes for dinner and not only have you found a solution to getting pets for the kids and show them your handyman skills but you’ve also made your wife happy making dinner with your own free range eggs.

The kids would like a pet. You’ve considered dogs but they bark loudly, mess up the lounge and poop in places you don’t want them to. You consider a cat but they catch native animals and aren’t environmentally friendly. Have you considered chickens?

There’s a whole host of reasons why chickens make wonderful pets. They don’t bark, and provided you don’t buy a rooster the neighbours won’t complain about the noise. They don’t smell and they don’t dig holes under the fence. They’re cheap to feed, need very little work and are fun day at around. Kids just love chickens, mine spend hours playing with them.

And on top of that you have an added bonus. Eggs.

When it comes to buying a pet so few people think about getting chickens. If your council allows you to have chickens at home, and most do, it’s certainly worth considering. However before you buy those first few chickens there’s one thing that you will need. A good chicken house.

Although it need not be large chickens do need good housing. The house should provide them with a sheltered nesting box where they can lay their eggs as well as some perches where they can roost to sleep at night. Part of the chicken house should be undercover, particularly where they sleep, so they are not subject to bad weather at night.

A good hen house is easy to build. A large part of the chicken house is simply wire mesh, and building a chicken house is a simple matter of building a frame of treated timber and covering the frame with wire. It is usually unnecessary to have a floor on the house as it sits on the ground.

For a small number of chickens, say 3 or 4, it is not necessary that it be particularly large. For 3 or 4 chickens it’s perfectly possible to build a hen house with handles on one end and wheels on the other so that you can move around the garden. During the day most people allow the chickens to free range in the garden eating those pesky bugs that have been attacking your vegetables and flowers.

Building a chicken house is the perfect handyman project. Get together with the kids one afternoon, after finding a simple set of plans on the Internet, and start building your own chicken house. It shouldn’t be expensive or difficult to do and it’s a great way to spend some quality time with the kids.

So if you’ve been searching around for a great idea for a pet for the children and consider getting your own chickens. Spend some quality time with the kids showing in your handyman skills building a simple chicken house and you’ll have happy kids, happy chickens and lots of eggs for dinner.

Find a good recipe book, get started learning how to make omelettes for dinner and not only have you found a solution to getting pets for the kids and show them your handyman skills but you’ve also made your wife happy making dinner with your own free range eggs.