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Many predators will dig and scratch to get into a chicken coop. To name a few:RaccoonFoxPossumMinkCoyotes
There are many places where you can find chicken coop designs online. One of the best sites to visit to view designs is http://www.chickencoopguides.com/, the site allows you to view many different varieties of chicken coops.
If by change you mean clean out then it depends how many chickens you have and how big the coop is. But I would clean it out about every two weeks or so.
Do you want your chicken coop plan to be free or do you want to buy it? If you want it free I guess you can go www.backyardchickens.com/atype/2/Coops they have a lot of coops, from small to large and on wheels. If you want to know more about chicken coop and raising chicken there are many book covering this subject: Chickens In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide Chicken Coops: 45 Building Ideas for Housing Your Flock
it has many names ! lots of people call them different things such as- 1- hen house 2- chicken run/house 3-coop 4-pen hope this helps from i-luv-my-chickens
How much does a chicken coop cost? Well, the short anwer would be that you can quite easily build a solid and top quality chicken coop for about $300.There are a wide variety of building plans available all over the internet, some free and some you have to pay for. They are easy to find and usually the paid ones doesn't cost much money anyway. It can be worth it to get good quality plans.Further the cost of the chicken coop will of course depend on the size of it. How many chickens are you planing on housing? These are questions you need to consider before anyone can give you a clear price assessment.
At least four, chickens are social animals. You should have one rooster to every 15-20 hens. Every chicken should have 1-1/2 cubic ft. of space but extra space is recommended for the least amount of aggressiveness.
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Most certainly there are, lots of them. We have a whole chicken category (we even have a parts of chickens category...see Cooking) You start in the main Animal life category, then go to the Farm Animals sub-category and then click on the Chickens & Roosters sub-sub-category. Another way to do this is to ask a chicken coop question is the green box above. It will lead you to many questions relating to chickens and chicken coops.
The chicken could be getting ill for many reasons. Poor immune system, nutritional deficiency, poor sanitation in the coop. Lack of ventilation in a chicken coop is more often than not the culprit when the birds develop eye irritation. Dust in the air will effect both eye and lungs. Vent your coop, set up evacuation fans to blow poor air out and draw clean air in, if the outside is particularly dusty, use filters on the air intakes. Sanitize your coop area with water and bleach to kill off communicable diseases and offer a water soluble tonic to boost the whole flocks immune systems.
You could view chicken ark designs on the internet at Wichita cabin coop or you could take a look at hobby farms as well as ebay or Amazon. You could get many design ideas on You tube
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