A good chook house design doesn’t have to be complicated
If you’re planning to build a chook house the good news is that if you’re basically competent with a hammer and some nails it’s not hard to do. You do need a good chook house design to start with however, because just like building a house if you try to do it without a plan to work from it may not work out too well.
We covered in some other articles some of the things you need to consider in a good chook house design. You need to allow for nesting boxes, roosting perches and places for food and water that will not become fouled from chicken droppings.
The good news though is that a simple chicken house design is quite adequate. Your chook shed doesn’t need to be complicated, ours is just a simple wooden shed with some thought put into where to put the components.
We were taken by the design of the chook house in the video. Obviously this guy has put some thought into how he will design his chook house, and in our view it works very well. But you don’t need to get quite this complicated unless you want to.
However as we said, it doesn’t have to be complicated. A simple chook house design always works well.
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