Those who spend on their summer cottage all summer, sometimes they want to grow a couple of dozen chickens, whose meat is always useful in winter. However, many stops the need to build the chicken coop.

Today we will tell about how to collect such a construction using a minimum of funds and putting at all a lot of effort, namely from PVC pipes and a conventional chain grid.

How to make a chicken coop

Since the chickens are thermal-loving creatures, for a comfortable stay, they need a room that will protect against bad weather, and in sultry weather will remain cool. However, this applies more to those constructions in which year-round cultivation of birds. As for the temporary summer building, it does not require such large investments.

Recommendations for the construction of the chicken coop do it yourself

• Do not have a building near the residential house.
• The size of the correct chicken coop is calculated on the basis of the following considerations - 4 birds per 1 sq.m. Square. However, agricultural workers advise to make it a little more, since the birds can take off the offspring.

• The nests are best made from Tesa or plywood. They should be placed in a darkened and protected place. It is desirable to separate them from each other with a blindfold curtain.

• The design is recommended to be placed on the hill, which will save chickens from flooding in the period of torrential rains. At the same time, at such a plot with the onset of spring, it becomes much more comfortable due to the warm rays of the sun.
• If you decide to build a chicken coop of windows, then they should be made double, stretched vertically. The upper part of the frame must be located 30 cm from the floor. With the onset of summer they are removed, and the opening is delayed with a grid.
• If you plan to keep the farm all year round, then the construction should be isolated and equipped with a vestibule.
• In order to protect the chicken coop of predators, the floor can be concreted or lay out the brick.
• In the poultry house it is recommended to make natural supply and exhaust ventilation.
• It is recommended to scatter on the floor of the sawdust, which will absorb excessive moisture.

• The entrance to the chicken coop is usually equipped from the south-east.
• Inside the poultry house, you must install drinkers, feeders, petrolers and other inventory.
• Pastes should be made from wooden 4x4 cm of bars. They are located 60-70 from the floor and decorate on the wall opposite to the window.
• For non-savings, 14-16 hour day is needed. It is possible to use electrical lighting for its collateral.

How to build a chicken coop of PVC pipes

Plastic pipes that are selected in this case for the construction of a summer chicken coop are quite inexpensive and do not require the existence of skills in circulation. It is possible to solder them with each other with the help of a soldering iron brought to rent.

Stages of work:

1. Before starting construction, it should be imagined what you want to get in the end. To do this, sketch on paper a draft chicken coop, which will be enough to calculate the required number of building materials. Ideally, of course, it would be possible to portray the design in the projection of each of its sides (roof, floor, walls).
2. After the design stage, go to the nearest building of building materials and purchase connecting corners and couplings. They are better to take a couple of pieces more.
3. Now you can start assembling the design. The chicken coop itself will have the appearance of the usual box of PVC pipes, which is covered with a chain grid or a fishing kapron grid. Its size depends on what number of birds are you planning to grow. The height usually does not exceed 1.5 meters. At the same time, construction, be sure to pride the door, thanks to which you will get inside and cleaning.
4. To connect to each other, it is recommended to use versatile tees or use a combination of packing parts. If you decide to take advantage of a fishing oscillation grid that has small cells, then before performing a frame of a frame, inward each pipe should be placed from metal or the corresponding diameter of the reinforcement, which is cropped in short by 20 cm than the length of the pipes. An alternative method can be covered in the sand, but this method is not so reliable.
5. When the design is ready, cover it with a grid. Create fixation is better with wire.

Recommendations:

• this kind of chicken coop is recommended to be installed under a canopy, which can be made from the same building material, namely PVC pipes;
• another option can serve as a shelter from a polyethylene film, but this is not very convenient and practical;
• if you want to do everything as it should be, it is better to spend a little time and build a capital canopy;
• paul is desirable to be done under the tilt, which will simplify the cleaning of the chicken coop;
• the bottom can be sealing straw, flood with sand or sawdust;
• be sure to install in the chickenter boxes stuffed with straw and sawdust, where the chickens will carry eggs;
• if desired, the design can be protected using a metal mesh, where the chickens will be able to walk freely.

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