When it comes to home grown food production, chickens have got to be close to the ultimate. Eggs are an exceptional food, chickens make eggs out of almost nothing, and the birds themselves give excellent meat when their productive lives are over. All you need is accommodation for the birds
We've kept chickens on our Manitoulin Island, Ontario place since 2002, and I designed and built this coop with one of my sons.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned after keeping backyard chickens for 20+ years is that there are five main advantages offered by portable, modular chicken houses:
1. Simpler to build than a permanent house.
2. Modular housing offers flexibility to add or take away additional coops as needed
3. Portable design makes it easier to keep a healthy flock because individual houses can be taken out of production to break pest cycles.
4. Moving the location of a chicken house means the birds don’t turn any given patch of ground into a dusty, sometimes-muddy mess.
5. Small houses are warmer for the birds in winter. The hinged roof of my design also allows for cooler summer conditions.
Building the Chicken House
Step 1: Cut and Assemble the Bottom
Start by cutting the plywood bottom panel, then
