Coop 10 chickens with their hands - step by step instructions , drawings and video

Mini poultry farms, erected on private land, is calculated on a number of individuals.Ten hens is enough to provide average family egg optimally equip territory and have no problems with the owners of the adjacent construction.How to build a small chicken coop with their hands, not deploying large-scale construction, and will be the subject of conversation.

What to consider before building

Those breeding poultry has not previously engaged, to be something to explain.Build a chicken coop is simple in principle.Those who used to do everything with their own hands, rather than pay for the services of hired craftsmen, and this case will be on the shoulder, even more so that the building - not a house, with its ceilings, internal walls, communications and so on.

author focuses specifically on this reader's attention.Knowing these nuances can help to alter any finished drawings at its discretion, if the scheme and dimensions designed chicken coop for some reason, the local conditions are not suitable.

Now we can go to the issue of building a chicken coop.As stated - a small, 10 chickens.

Preparations

drawing Drawing

Experience chicken breeding shows that 10 individuals enough house for 4 - 5 m².If possible, it is desirable to increase the area of ​​the henhouse to 6 - 7. In the first place, for the various breeds of hens - their "standards", and secondly, if the population will increase slightly, will not have to redo something.

paddock poultry site should be located on the side of the house, which is illuminated by a large part of the day.

In principle, these are the main recommendations.Everything else - the architecture of the chicken coop, its outer cladding - at the discretion of the owner.

Site Selection

should focus on these requirements:

choice of materials

Under this item, give recommendations difficult.First, each host in the reserve there is always some stuff left over from the construction of the house, a summer kitchen, a fence or something else.Second, an important detail - the financial capacity.But one piece of advice all the same will not be superfluous.

optimally for a hen house - wood and polycarbonate.In the latter case - cellular sheets.They are well kept warm and ensure consistency in the structure of the microclimate.

process of building a chicken coop

Layout

About dimensions hen house (house + playground) has already been said.If possible, the structure must be arranged so that the windows fell as much as possible light.

Site preparation

Foundation

Any construction is the most expensive stage.Taking into account the small mass coop optimal solution - the base of pile foundation or columnar type.Install a foundation with his hands easy, and not have to deal with bulk earthworks, damaging the plants root system.

Screw piles simply screwed into the ground, and each mounted headroom.With pillars slightly more difficult - have to drill wells.As supports, you can use the tube - metal or asbestos cement.Since seasonal soil displacement - are not uncommon, they should be strengthened.Inside the tubes are inserted into reinforcing bars (center must rise a little to bind to the support frame) and poured concrete solution.

House

process of erection of walls and ceilings (roof) is not worth describing, as a matter of fact - it is a small box (frame), covered with boards.But there are some features that require more detailed consideration.

door in the bottom of the web (or side) - always a manhole for birds (just 30 x 30) with a small doorsteps.

Windows

main requirement - their total area should not be less than 0.1 of the same sex setting.And how to put windows - 1 large or 3-4 small - decide the host.

Walls

Regardless of the material, they need to insulate.When choosing a heat insulator need to be guided by its vapor permeability, otherwise dampness in the henhouse can not be avoided.From this standpoint, the foam (Styrofoam) is eliminated.As a rule, laid a layer of mineral wool, and on top - Rooms' thin board or plywood.That's enough to not have to think about artificial heating henhouse.

Paul

principle is the same - a double floor, which is laid between the levels of insulation.In view of the expanded clay is enough bedding to be warm in the henhouse.

Roof

Optimal schemes - one or gable.Also - insulation and waterproofing.

Interior design

Ventilation

It can be as pipes and technological holes.But always with the ability to control air flow.Their location: plenum - in every far corner, exhaust - on the roost.

E /

wiring only external, and in boxes.This model requires all wooden buildings.

Perches

Reiki, not necessarily just planed, and polished.The height of the boards - the order of 75 cm in the chicken coop for 10 birds a little perch, so shall be at least three, at one level, at intervals of half a meter..In such circumstances, the chickens will not interfere with each other.

sockets layers

Just one 3 - 4 birds.Consequently, the four would be enough for 10 chickens.The options are many versions of their design, but the requirements are the same.The width and height - at least 35, but the depth of slightly more - about 40 (cm).

Mats

This is not only a convenience for the hens, and additional insulation the henhouse.Carpeting not only jacks, but the floor of the room.Options - straw, sawdust, peat.The main thing - to change the time.Normal humidity and cleanliness - a prerequisite for a comfortable stay henhouse dwellers.

for walking bird

Golf Its size is already specified.Easy to arrange - the pillars on the perimeter + mesh-netting.What to consider?For a more intensive treatment of moisture from areas further from the site of gradient you need to take care of a good soaking liquid into the soil.Therefore it concrete or "roll" in the asphalt can not.The best option - to fill CBC, with only small fractions of the filler.Chickens peck like pebbles (for better digestion of food), so use something else for "flooring" is not worth it.

Key recommendations for the construction and arrangement of the henhouse given.And which option to choose - is entirely at the discretion of the dear reader.Good luck in the construction of mini-poultry house and a good "harvest" the eggs!