Construction of the hen house or hen house will not take away a lot of time and money. It is possible to make it colourful fantastic lodge that it decorated your yard, and became for birds cozy, warm and comfortable.
It is required to you
- - boards;
- - heater;
- - nails;
- - concrete;
- - metal sheets;
- - material for roof;
- - boxes;
- - sawdust.
Instruction
1. Draw the project of the hen house. Calculate the room size – no more than four chickens on square meter. And material of which you will build the hen house depends on the area too. Choose the location of lodge for birds. If to put it on the eminence, then the hen house will not flood with rain water. Do not build it in shadow – birds like to potter about and be heated in the sun.
2. Make the strong base. That predators have not got to your birds, flood it with concrete. Lay boards on this main covering. If you do not do the base, upholster room walls from below with sheets of iron that will protect hens from uninvited guests.
3. Plan several windows for natural lighting and ventilation. It is better to make them on the southern and east wall. In the winter artificial lighting because hens love light is necessary. Calculate bulb power – not less than 5 watts on square meter of room space. Think of sufficient ventilation that birds have not choked in ammonium vapors. Inside cover lodge walls with lime that microbes did not extend.
4. Equip perches for birds. Their length will depend on quantity of hens – 60 centimeters on one unit. Warm walls of the room special materials, and for heating buy the heater or rather powerful bulbs in the winter. Trace that electric devices and wires were located out of reach of birds.
5. Feeding trough and drinking bowl do not put low. Hens like to dig and rummage in the earth therefore they can destroy the boxes placed below and scatter forage on all lodge. You watch purity indoors, health of your birds depends on it. On floor put sawdust, sand and straw.
6. That hens rushed willingly, put special dark box to the hen house. Being in it, they will feel comfortably, warmly and safely. Fill box with dry sawdust and place it in corner.
7. For simplification of cleaning of the room make floor slightly inclined, water will easily flow down when cleaning, and the humidity will not be late for a long time. And if you attach trays under poles of perches of birds, then you should not remove all area of the room often.
8. Near the hen house allocate the territory in which hens will walk and potter about in dust. Make it from South side that birds basked in the sun. Drive protection in the earth on depth of 30 centimeters that rodents have not undermined the earth. Choose grid chain-link with small cells that baby birds could not get through outside. The canopy can be made constant or temporary in the form of tent (in case of rain).