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There are many offers of chicken coop plans on the internet, but which of these will result in a good-quality working chicken house? If you know all about chickens and how to design happy and healthy housing for them, are good at preplanning, making your own blueprints from basic plans or sketches, generating a comprehensive materials list before starting to assemble your chicken coop, as well as being an experienced woodworker, then you will probably manage with any type of chicken coop plans you come across.

Or you might discover how much time and money you have wasted, and you could end up making a chicken house that proved to be a very unhappy and unsafe environment for your birds. Thorough planning, quality blueprints and clear advice are vital to the making of a proper living area for your hens.

As a minimum you should include the following in your planning:

• Selecting a suitable location for the chicken coop in your backyard or garden

• Calculating the correct size of chicken house for the number of hens

• Ensuring proper lighting and ventilation for the birds

• Selecting the nesting box and feeder arrangements

• Designing adequate safeguards from predators

• Considering any services to the chicken coop such as electricity and water supplies

To do this planning well, most people will need input and guidance from expert chicken coop designers, and will rely on good blueprints rather than sketches and vague diagrams to build a proper hen house. Without good blueprints it is quite likely that you will not achieve a good functional chicken coop, it might not be strong enough and it might give ready access for predators.

You will definitely waste time and money (in wrong materials and get-around fixes) if you take a trial-and-error approach, your enthusiasm will take plenty of knocks and – maybe the most important – you will not enjoy the experience as much as you should. Also, unhappy or unhealthy hens are poor layers, so you will be denied those lovely free-range eggs you had so eagerly anticipated.

Before starting to make the chicken coop you will need to prepare a comprehensive list of materials needed for the job. This is vital, otherwise you will have problems during assembly when you discover you have left out some bracket or fastener and the local hardware shop has shut until Monday morning! It is not easy to put together a comprehensive list of all necessary materials, and we can honestly say that it is so much better (and safer) to let a chicken coop expert do it on your behalf.

It is so easy to make mistakes without this expert input. Often these mistakes will not become apparent until you have completed the hen house, and by then it could be too late to sort out any problems. Good chicken coop plans are certainly worth the small investment, and usually these come complete with clear step-by-step instructions and schematic diagrams. We have discovered that good blueprints and clear instructions actually save money and time in the long run.

We have located and highly recommend a man who has many years’ experience with chickens, Bill Keene. He has produced a great range of chicken coop plans, including all the necessary information, step-by-step instructions, drawings, blueprints, material lists and professional guidance for you to plan and build a hen house that will fit your particular requirements perfectly. He will help you to avoid the frustrations and pitfalls often made by first-time builders, and also show you how to produce a happy, safe and healthy living area for your chickens.  Bill Keene is the best source of good plans for making a wonderful chicken coop.

Good luck and have fun!

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