For those who have decided that keeping chickens is a good way to cut down on their weekly grocery bill the one thing you have to keep in mind is your poultry house design. Your hens are going to need a safe dry place to roost and to lay their eggs. If you do not have room for some form of hen house you may want to think about other alternatives to keeping your own chickens.
The Basic Poultry House
The word farmer conjures images of large tracts of land, fields of wheat gently rustling in the afternoon breeze, and powder blue skies above rows of corn.
There is also the image of dirt, sweat, heat, floods, pests, and varmints. Many people dream of someday owning their own land, livestock and crops, but this dream can soon become a nightmare if the dreamer does not have the resources or know-how to manage a full-scale farm.
Smallholding may be a solution for those who wish to work a farming operation but do not have the ability to manage a full scale farming operation. Smallholding is the practice of farming on a small scale. Crop farm smallholding is generally to inefficient to be practical but there are those who are livestock smallholders who enjoy tremendous success and derive enormous amounts of satisfaction from their chosen profession.
If you’re currently thinking about trying to build a poultry house, there are some very critical things that you must consider. Failure to take into account a few different factors could mean the difference between you having success or not – success being defined as getting fresh eggs on a daily basis.
Sadly, many chicken farmers make a few critical errors in their attempt to build a poultry house and this winds up costing them hundreds of dollars in the repair process. In some situations, they have to completely rebuild the poultry house altogether; a very frustrating task to say the least.