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Design & Build the chicken house

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

We decided that we would locate the chickens at the bottom of our garden. There is fairly long line of conifers all the way along the back of the garden which we preceeded to trim away the lower branches and expose an area approx 10 -12 feet wide and probably 50 ft long. we are planning on 2-4 chickens so they had planty of room.

I looked for specific plans for a chicken house on the internet and was disappointed with what I found so proceeded to gather together all the wood I had stacked here and there and design my own. The only criteria I had in my mind was that it needed to be fiarly easy to clean and bid enough to allow us to expand our flock should we want to.

This is what I came up with:

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Chicken house design

Monday, April 27th, 2009

In response to some questions I have been asked here are some more details on the house I built.

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Automatic chicken door opener

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Most of the time we don’t mind going to the chicken house to open the pop hole door in the morning and then close it again in the evening. But I have to admit there are the odd days when it would be nice to have a lie in and not worry about. I started to look at the automatic door openers that are availsblr and too be honest I thought they seemed quite expensive for what they are.

After a little searching on the internet I came accross “Chris and Keri’s blog” which showed a nice simple design for an opener. All the others I had seen beforehand did not really go into enough detail of actualy how to build the opener.

I will have a go and let you know how I get on, I am hoping to add a solar panel as I have no mains available at the chicken house.