This blog is a record of a total novice’s decision’s and experiences as I start to keep chickens.
Archive for April, 2009
Keeping Chickens
Friday, April 17th, 2009Chickens First ???
Saturday, April 18th, 2009A few weeks ago we brought a book about keeping chickens and I started to research what was required. Once we had looked at all the different breeds of chicken we spent quite a lot of time pretty much liking most of them and not really making any decisions. We happened to be travelling back to Newmarket and I had made a wrong turn and pulled into a turning area and noticed a sign saying “point of Lay Hens” knocked on the door and 5 minutes later we had agreed to collect 2 GoldLine hens 2 weeks later.
Design & Build the chicken house
Sunday, April 26th, 2009We 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:
Chicken house design
Monday, April 27th, 2009In response to some questions I have been asked here are some more details on the house I built.
