How to Build a Cheap Chicken Ark

Make a Chicken Coop with Easy Step-by-Step Instructions!

The Chicken Coop Building Guide is a top-notch manual. Their plans for building a chicken ark or chicken coop were specifically designed so that anyone with basic tools like a handsaw, hammer, and drill can build their own fully functional chicken ark. With easy-to-follow cross sectional hen house diagrams that include exact dimensions and required tools and supplies, all of the guess work has been eliminated. This means there is no previous building experience required on your part. Anyone can build a chicken ark or coop quickly and easily.

Building a Chicken Ark in Various Sizes

This informative guide makes it possible to build a beautifully constructed chicken ark in a variety of sizes for a fraction of what it would cost to buy a chicken ark that was already built. You wouldn’t mind saving a couple hundred dollars or more on a chicken ark, would you? Included are full color illustrations and detailed instructions that will allow you to make solid structures of almost any size, regardless on whether or not you have any building skills whatsoever.

Add an Automatic Egg Collector

How would you like to make a first-class double-story hen house, with easy access to the nesting area? Or maybe you are more interested in a unit that will house 50 pullets and automatically collect eggs for you. Or how about a movable chicken ark that will give your birds free food and lower your expenses? If you are looking for ways to eliminate a few chores, you will love this inexpensive downloadable guide for building either a full-size chicken coop or a smaller portable chicken ark.

A Chicken Ark Allows Birds to Graze

Maybe a free range style of enclosure is what you’re after, otherwise known as a chicken ark. Building a chicken ark which will allow your poultry to graze, can save you lots of money on feed bills which is always good news. No matter what type of housing you want, or how many birds you will be raising, the hen houses in this guide will not disappoint.

Construct Sturdy and Long-Lasting Chicken Arks or Hen Houses of Any Size

This comprehensive guide includes plans for chicken arks and chicken coops that are small, medium, or large. It also includes fully illustrated designs and plans for enclosures which are easily customized to accommodate any number of hens. And again, no special tools are needed to build a chicken ark or coop and the supplies can be found at any ordinary hardware store.

Learn How to Raise Chickens Successfully Too

As an added bonus you will receive all the information you need to be super successful in your poultry raising efforts, whether you house your birds in a small chicken ark or in a large hen house. In addition to the easy-to-follow plans for making a highly functional chicken ark, learn how to build secure hen houses that will keep your poultry safe from predators, what to feed your birds, how to keep them healthy, how to keep your birds warm even during the coldest winter months, and much more. In other words, this book isn’t just about building a chicken coop or chicken ark, it’s about how to raise chickens from A to Z.

Easy Step by Step Directions for Beginners

Even if you are a total beginner with no do-it-yourself experience, or are working on a limited budget, this book will be a real joy to own. If you want to construct a high quality chicken ark right the first time, you won’t go wrong with this book!

How to Start Your First Laying Flock of Hens

When you want to fill your chicken ark with a productive laying flock there are many options for doing so. You can hatch your own eggs or buy live birds. Hatching eggs will require the use of an incubator or broody hen. Live birds can be bought as day-old chicks, started pullets, or second year birds. So which one is the best approach? If you are a beginner you should start your laying flock with live birds because there are just too many things that can go wrong when hatching eggs.

Baby Chicks

Buying baby chicks is often a good option, but there are a couple of important factors you should first consider. Older birds can be put directly outside in the chicken ark or chicken coop, but young birds should be placed in a warm and comfortable environment for the first several weeks of their lives. A brooder is specially made to house young birds until they are old enough to be put outside into a chicken ark or hen house. Brooders are great, but expensive. If you start with day old chicks it will be necessary to feed and care for them for several months before they start producing eggs. Starting your flock with baby birds will require the use of an expensive brooder since they cannot be placed outside yet. It also means caring for and feeding your hens several months before you ever see your first egg.

Second-Year Pullets

You can always buy second year birds that have already laid eggs for one season, but there are potential problems with this approach too. Laying hens, also known as pullets, produce the largest number and highest quality of eggs their first year. Each year thereafter the quantity and quality diminish. Using second year birds means you will be getting fewer eggs that are lower in quality. Plus, when these birds move to a new location they can become distressed and not lay any eggs at all for awhile, which defeats the purpose of buying these older hens.

Started Birds

An ideal way for a beginner to start their flock of laying hens is to buy started pullets and put them in an inexpensive and easy-to-build chicken ark. These birds are old enough to go directly into your chicken ark or coop. They are about four-and-a-half months old and almost to the age where they will begin laying eggs. You will not need to spend money on an expensive brooder because they can go directly into your ark. You also won’t need to spend money on feed for the first several months like you would with day old chicks. Plus, you will eliminate the labor of raising them to laying age and will be collecting large numbers of high quality eggs soon after buying them. Building a small easy chicken ark is a great way to start your new hobby.

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