Simple Chicken House
I recently stumbled across these construction plans for a basic chicken house and pen. Fall is often a great time to start a new building project, so I thought I’d share these construction plans with the hope that someone might be able to make good use of them. This chicken house caught my eye for two reasons. First of all, this chicken house would be great for the first-time poultry hobbyist looking for a straight forward, yet functional, design. Secondly, this chicken house is so similar in design to our own chicken house, which can be seen here. Even the interior layout is identical to our chicken house, with roosts along the back wall and nest-boxes on the front wall next to the door. It is, however, less than half the size of our chicken house. Nonetheless, I think this chicken house would be ideal for a small flock of bantams or a half dozen laying hens. The one modification I would suggest, however, is to make the width of the structure 8 feet wide instead of 6 feet wide. By making the house 8 feet wide, you would increase valuable floor space and also minimize sawing as most lumber is typically purchased in 8 foot lengths. At any rate, hopefully someone will find this design useful to their needs. If you are looking for more chicken coop plans, I’d suggest visiting this page by the North Dakota University Extension Service. It has dozens of free chicken house plans available for download in PDF format.
Simple Chicken House (Click For Full-Size Image)
July 15th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Hi, I love your blog. I, too, have a white bantam cochin hen who I bought from a local feed store and she is about 7 wks old now. She has a wonderful full personality and is very loving, and spunky, and beautiful. I don’t know what to do with her, as I don’t have much time to devote to chicken raising. Anyway she is so far my favorite chicken (I also got silly and bought 50 DeKalb Amberlink chicks and Silver laced Wyandottes).