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Meet the hen house in the photo, the construction and the device of which is available to every owner. An easy building for summer keeping of chickens in the country plot is being built for two hours, when the hoods are already on the threshold. For the year-round maintenance of building coops is more difficult and will cost more.
Construction begins with a project
In the subsidiary farm there are no undeveloped areas. And yet the chickens need to provide a comfortable environment. In a quiet place, behind a deaf fence on a hill, we create a house with our own hands. It includes a house and a playground. In summer, a covered room is needed for night rest of birds on the perch and for the arrangement of nests for laying hens. The walking area should protect the flock from hunters after chicken, from the scorching sun, and allow the soft earth to bury.
The size of the prefabricated poultry house depends on the number of hens. By standards for 5 goals requires a square meter of habitat. For 10 heads usually arrange a henhouse 2х2 m and a covered area with an adjoining 2x3 m. The light summer construction is made of boards or plywood fixed on the frame. Inside, establish roosts and nests. Access should be provided for the maintenance of the coop. In general, in a prefabricated house should be provided for:
- a sleeping place with perches 20 cm for each individual;
- boxes for laying eggs for 1 to 6 layers;
- The roof, which protects from precipitation and overheating on a hot day;
- walking with a canopy from the sun and a grid-border height of 1.8 m;
- feeders and drinkers installed on the outside of the net.
- a wooden gangway connecting the chicken coop with a walk.
A neatly constructed, rationally arranged bird house for chickens, as in the photo, will decorate the territory.
In such a house, the use of manual labor is minimal. The egg box is moved forward, the flap floor is easy to clean from the bottom. Three chickens in the poultry house are enough. To keep more birds, there are other versions of airborne light structures. It is important to create an aesthetic structure so that it fits into the landscape.
But the construction and installation of a hen house for hens as on this photo requires skills and it should be entrusted to professionals.
Construction of poultry houses with winter smokers
The construction of a chicken coop for the winter maintenance of livestock begins with the arrangement of the foundation. The base under the house is made taking into account the size of the room and the load on the sole. The coop can be installed on concrete blocks, reinforced in the corners. The rest of the space is covered or laid with a tape made of bricks. The base, the lower bar, should lie on the foundation ribbon, horizontally.
Walls are made of a bar or double walls are mounted on racks with a gasket inside the heater. This can be any filler, including dry sawdust. The windows in the winter house are small. You can do artificial lighting. The height of the walls is higher than human height. The floor is double wooden. The ceiling is covered with a heater from above, a gable roof, for easy snow removal.
The door is fitted tightly, a vestibule is needed in front of the entrance, so as not to cool the coop when it enters the winter. Ventilation holes are built in the walls of 2 pipes with flaps. It is necessary to provide for the heating of the room with a calorimeter or to put a burzhuyk, but it must be inaccessible to chickens.
Birds at a temperature in the henhouse below 150 C do not rush, at minus - the ridges freeze. Adjust the humidity and temperature by using ventilation pipes and heating. When excessive humidity in the heat of the chickens can get lice and fluffy.
The experience of arrangement of the winter henhouse showed that the contents of chickens should be kept at a level of one meter from the floor. In the lower part, organize a daytime exercise with bathing baths in an ash-sand mixture and for nailing minerals and hay. A warm room downstairs serves for walking, with a climb to the street. In the upper part, roosts are being built with pallet trays for guano cleaning. In the pallets and on the floor a layer of sawdust is poured. On the outer side of the bedroom, the feeding troughs are fixed along the entire length of the room, so that all individuals simultaneously have free access to the stern and water. Sockets are installed at the top and bottom in secluded corners.
Nases should be installed 50 cm from the floor surface for free take-off. Each chicken requires 20 cm of the length of the pole. It is necessary to exclude drafts in the room. Windows can not be cut. They will be replaced by electric lighting. Due to the absence of cracks and evaporation from chickens in the room, high humidity is established. What kind of air exchange should be in the poultry house? You can open the door of the burger, in the gap the warm air will come out with moisture. Fresh air will flow through the doorway and vent pipes.
In the summer, the chickens go alone on an overnight stay on the climb if there is a walking area next to it, covered with a grid for poultry.
In the photo there is a poultry house for chickens, the construction and installation of the enclosure and the tambour are made in one block. The room is suitable for year-round laying.
The bird house for 10 heads is made on a timber frame, on two sides covered with boards. The roof is made of boards, covered with reeds. The foundation is columnar, made of wooden poles impregnated with machine oil and resin. Simultaneously with the foundation pouring the frame is installed. Double walls with a backfill of a heater. Outside, there is a protection from blowing, upholstery cardboard or roofing.
On the adobe floor, a metal net is laid against the penetration of rodents into the coop.
On top of the mounted plank floor, covered with a thick layer of sawdust. The ceiling and roof are made with a slope in the opposite direction from the walk. There is a double window 60x120 cm, electric wiring in a moisture-proof design. There is a climbing and walking zone. A heated vestibule is also a storage place for food. The paddock is arranged under the main room and is made of polycarbonate for light penetration. Chickens are protected from the wind, in the fence there is no snow, fresh air. A metal mesh creates a protective barrier.
It is not difficult to build a chicken coop if the rules for keeping the crested livestock in summer and winter are already known.
