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Portable Chicken Mini

Chickens are every bit as fun and easy to care for as dogs or cats, plus they give you great farm fresh eggs. The biggest challenge is keeping the birds safe from predators, and at the same time allowing them to enjoy a natural diet of grains, greens and insects.

Most poultry predators roam at night raccoons, coyotes, owls and such. But hawks and (some but not all) dogs may attack free ranging birds during the day, especially if there are no humans at home or no guard dog to chase them away. You could keep your birds inside a conventional stationary coop, but then they wouldn get to forage for canada goose coats on sale their natural diet and https://www.cheshuntteamministry.org.uk thereby give you the best tasting and most nutritious eggs. Portable electric mesh fencing can serve as daytime protection in some locations, but not against hawks. Plus, you still need shelter for the hens to sleep in.

canada goose black friday sale 2019 To make it easy for anyone to raise a few chickens on pasture, I set out to create a coop design that would be secure, low cost, easy to build, light enough to move easily and scaled to fit well even in small back yards. After working through several prototypes, the design described below meets all those criteria. It intended for three or four hens, costs only about $100 in materials and can be assembled in a few hours from standard welded wire fencing. uk canada goose outlet A barn style plastic doghouse serves as a henhouse that sits inside the wire pen. The pen and house combo is lightweight and canada goose store easy to pull to a new location every canada goose coats few days, so you can keep your birds safe but still let them enjoy clean, fresh pasture (or set them over garden beds to help fertilize and control pests). canada goose black friday sale 2019

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Barn style doghouse: the larger the better, but be sure you get the 1 by 2 inch mesh wire fencing for the pen side walls (see below) in a height that at least as tall as the doghouse you choose.

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25 feet of 2 by 4 inch buy canada goose jacket mesh welded wire, 36 inches wide (or 48 inches for a wider pen see Step 2, below); this is for the top and bottom of the coop. You could use 1 by 2 inch mesh throughout, but the 2 by 4 foot is sufficient, plus it lighter and less expensive.

Two or three boxes of rings and the pliers to pinch them closed. I discovered these nifty fasteners at a Tractor Supply Co. store. They are designed to be pierced into pigs noses to discourage them from rooting, but they perfect for quickly attaching the walls, top and bottom to form a very lightweight all wire (no wood!) pen.

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If You Build It, They Will Cluck

Step 1: Bend the 1 by 2 inch mesh fencing to make the sides of the 3 by 10 foot pen.

Step 2: Cut an 11 foot length of the 2 by 4 inch mesh wire, fold 6 inches under on each end (to provide extra stiffness) so you have a section that is 10 feet long. Using the hog rings every 4 to 6 inches, attach the 2 by 4 inch wire section to form a top for the 3 by 10 foot wire rectangle. (I also made one test pen that was 4 feet wide, rather than 3 feet. To prevent the wider top section from sagging, I slipped two 1 by 2 inch wooden through the top slots in the side walls.)

ebay uk canada goose Step 3: Make another 10 foot section as described above, flip the pen over and install the second section. ebay uk canada goose

Step 4: To make the door openings one at one end so you can gather the eggs from the henhouse and slide the house out for cleaning, and one at the other end to allow for tending the birds food and water containers cut sections of wire out of each end of the pen to form openings tall and wide enough for the house to slide in and canada goose uk shop out easily. Bend back all the sharp wire ends.

Step 5: Make the doors two 3 by 1 1/2 foot flaps of the 1 by 2 inch mesh fencing that hinge up from the bottom and down from the top (use the hog rings to make the the top and bottom flaps will overlap 6 inches in the middle. This door design lets you open only the top flap to reach in for eggs, or open both the top and bottom flaps if you need to slide the coop out. Use bungee cords or whatever fasteners you have on hand to secure the door flaps.

canada goose deals Step 6: To adapt the barn style doghouse (sold in various sizes at most hardware, farm supply and home improvement stores) first file off the tabs that hold the roof section to the bottom (a wood rasp works well) so cheap canada goose that you can easily lift off the roof section when you need to change the bedding. Then install a 1 by 2 inch board as a roost at the top edge of the bottom section, and attach a thin plywood to a second crosspiece toward the back of the coop (see illustration), with a hole cut in it so the hens can lay their eggs in Canada Goose Parka the room (they like a dark, cozy spot). Put the top section of the doghouse onto the bottom backwards, so you have a large opening in the front and a smaller, higher opening facing the back. This way, you can reach into the back opening to gather eggs. canada goose deals

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Step 7: Finally, trace the shape of the front and back henhouse openings, cut plywood doors to fit and hinge them to the openings. I made canada goose black friday sale the front door hinge canada goose uk outlet downward and attached a cord to the top edge so I can just pull the cord up to close the door; and I put a small snap fastener on the end of the cord so opening or closing the door takes about five seconds! I thought the wire pens would be fully predator proof and the birds would not need to be locked inside the house at night, but I learned the hard way that gangs of raccoons can manage to scare young birds out of the house, then reach through the wire and kill them! So, even though the birds naturally go into the house at night to roost, it still a good idea to close the door each evening.

More Easy Ideas

We will be posting this portable backyard coop plan on our Web site. If you find ways to improve upon it, or you have other ideas for portable coops, please share your discoveries by posting a comment to the article.

For example, before I discovered the hog rings and developed this wire pen plan, I made a portable coop by adding wheels and a wire to a chain link dog kennel. I got a bucket of used lawn mower wheels from a small engine repair shop at no cost, and mounted them on 24 inch long axles cut from steel rod that I clamped to the four corners of the kennel. For a coop inside the kennel, I used a fiberglass calf hut (sold at farm stores), also on wheels and with a wire floor added to keep out any predators that might dig under the kennel walls. (Or you could use a couple of the barn style doghouses for the henhouses, set up on crossbeams.) My chain link chicken on wheels works great if you want a larger number of hens than the wire mini coop Canada Goose Online can handle.

Mother Earth News Editor in Chief Cheryl Long looks forward to a day when there are chickens in every back yard. She keeps her Welsummer and Jersey Giant hens in the portable pens she designed for this article.

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I can probably help out anyone having trouble with their coop. Canada Goose Outlet A few weeks ago I was looking for a coop plan because I didn’t want to wait and pay 400$ for a pre made one I knew I could make. I couldn’t really find any free information that was detailed, I needed a guide with materials listed and step by step instructions for any amount of chickens. I did find a blog though that had chicken coop plans for any amounr of chickens. I used it to build a chicken coop for 6 chickens everything is step by step only took me 4 days to build mine using the plans. I simply use 3/4″ ply that was lying around to make a house inside the box, with a removable. sloped roof. sloped, a door hatch to the back side, another on one side and a third at the high end. The high end door,long enough to serve as a walk, is attached to a cord that runs through the house and out the back side, making it possible to open and close easily. Inside are 4 nests and a roost attached to the long closed wall, mounted on simple shelf brackets. The pen is simply salvaged fence sections (3/4″ galvanized frames with chicken wire. At one end I attached a 2″x6″ near the bottom, narrow edge vertical, with two 5 inch casters mounted on the outside, so that the pen can be moved when tilted back. The house merely is pushed up to one side that has an opening, the door dropped and chickens free to run.

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I highly caution anyone with numerous or hungry predators of chickens in their area. I built this cage with chicken wire and a frame (because the larger fencing recommended just seemed to allow too much room for smaller hens to escape). I had my three, new young hens out in this coop for one week. I went out to feed/water them every morning, and one morning I was devastated to find that during the night, something (I’m guessing a racoon) had managed to catch a hen THROUGH the chicken wire, and pulled it limb from limb through the wire. When I arrived on the scene, the only evidence of this was a few feathers and some chicken muscle tissue caught on the chicken wire however all substancial parts of the chicken were gone (legs, head, wings). The thought of one of my precious new chickens being ripped apart alive almost made me sick. I will never again build something with so little protection to the outside. My next coop (when I get approval in my new city to keep hens) will have double thick cage walls, with maybe a 2×4 between the first fence and the second, to keep predators from grabbing at the chickens through the fencing. I’m still devastated about my loss, and it’s been two years.

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