Building your own chicken coop will be one of the best decisions you’ll make in your life.

Your own backyard chicken coop will provide you with daily fresh organic eggs for the kitchen. It will recycle your families food scraps and produce high quality fertilizer for your garden. Best of all, your family will be proud of the coop that you created with you own two hands.

It just makes perfect economic sense to build a chicken coop yourself instead of buying an expensive pre-built chicken coops. Pre-built coops have to be assembled anyway, you’re really just paying hugely inflated prices for the material.

I understand that building a chicken coop can seem like a hard project. Working out dimensions, materials, insulation, ventilation, lighting, positioning, nesting, perches, waste collection and protection from the elements and other predators can seem complicated.

Luckily for you, using my many years of experience in the poultry industry, I’ve created an easy to follow guide to building your own backyard chicken coop. It’s designed it for the total beginner, you don’t require any carpentry skills. It doesn’t matter if you want a big coop or a small coop, or if have a big or a little budget.

Introducing “Building A Chicken Coop”…

Here is just a small taste of all the things you will find in your copy…

Full color step-by-step scale plans

• How to build a large premium chicken house that is easy to clean, automatically collects eggs and allows you to maintain up to 50 chickens
• The 6 critical things you must have before you even think about starting to build a chicken coop
• Simple tips on how to set-up your building site and select your materials that will make building quick and easy

Double story chicken house and my personal favourite coop

• How to build an extremely cheap all-in-one enclosed chicken coop for up to 4 large chickens
• How to build a small portable chicken coop ark (chicken tractor) that makes cleaning simple and provides fertilizer where you want
• How to build a large double-story chicken coop with an easy to access and clean nesting area up top and a spacious run down bottom

Detailed step-by-step instructions

• Handy expert tips on flooring, roofing, walls, nesting boxes, windows, doors and perches
• How to easily extend any coop into a free-range style enclosure
• How to pick the correct breed of chicken for your climate, space and desired egg production

My portable barn style chicken house with optional run

• How to easily breed chickens yourself and take care of the baby chicks so you have a self sustaining flock
• How to design a coop that keeps your chickens warm in even the coldest of climates
• The 9 daily, monthly and yearly chores you must perform to keep your chickens healthy, happy and laying eggs

My large premium chicken coop with run

• How to protect your coop from predators such as foxes, coyotes, cats, hawks and much more
• The 8 foods that can be potentially harmful if you give them to your chickens
• Learn what to do if your chicken gets sick and the 2 most common health problems and how to cure them
• And much much more information and plans

Testimonials:

“…If you are considering keeping chickens in your back yard, you must read this book. Whether you have a tiny courtyard or acres to play with, Keene’s advice will stand you in good stead and help you build the right chicken coop. The focus of the book is on being well-prepared for your flock before they even arrive. Keene ensures that you consider every issue before you spend a cent on birds, feed or equipment. He discusses which species is appropriate for your garden, what they should eat and, as the title suggests, how you should house them. Anyone with basic do-it-yourself tools and a patch of land could follow his instructions. The drawings and diagrams are easy to interpret and the lists of materials and tools needed are very helpful. Keene also appreciates that the value of using recycled materials in your chicken coop – cheap and environmentally friendly. Keene encourages responsible husbandry – his reminder of tasks to be completed weekly, monthly and sixth monthly should be replicated onto the calendar of any careful poultry keeper. The level of detail is just right, from a list of the color of the egg you might expect from you hen to a description of healthy hen’s poop! If you follow his tips, your happy hens will be very productive. Next we need a cookbook for ideas to use up all the spare eggs…” Tracyann – Amateur Chicken Farmer – Devon, United Kingdom

“My chickens are happy with their new home…”

“Have you been planning to make a cozy, comfortable and tidy coop for your chickens? Well, follow the guidelines in this wonderful resource! My chickens are happy with their new home! Bill’s book helped me make a well-planned, easy-to-clean-and-maintain coop for my chickens. I got practical tips on locating, positioning, protecting and maintaining the climate in the coop. Like me, it will help you too to choose the appropriate size, building design and materials for construction. This book not only helps you save while you build, but also enjoy the freedom to customize the coop to your individual specifications and needs. With valuable inputs on light and ventilation, I was able to ensure that the coop position was such that it allowed enough light in, but did not make the coop draughty. I particularly enjoyed the creative and innovative ideas thrown in about building low cost nesting boxes with material lying around the house. It set me exploring my own creativity and resourcefulness! An informative and easy to follow read, this book will guide you in building your own coop at a fraction of the cost of purchasing one! ” Rachana Misra - Go Green Farms™ Owner