If you're looking to build a chicken coop, here are plans and instructions. With the price of eggs lately, it's a good investment. Here are some cost-saving tips.
Material list and building instructions
Chicken Coop Building Plans
These laundry organizer bins are only $6. Way cheaper than nesting boxes from farm stores.
Cheap Nesting Boxes
Saves me from having to rush out to let them out and protects the chickens from cold and predators.
Automatic, solar door for hen house.
Sort eggs by the date they were collected so they aren't getting old in the bottom of a basket.
Egg Organizer
This feed is only $13 autoshipped
HEALTHY HARVEST All Natural 16% Protein Layer Pellets ...
Make your own bedding and nesting material out of shipping boxes.
Reuse Packing Material as Animal Bedding
Easy way to have lights for collecting eggs and early morning hen care.
Solar Lights for Hen House
If my chickens aren't laying I try to make sure they're not getting too much calcium from the laying pellets. This is what I like to mix into their feed to dilute the laying pellets if they aren't laying.
HEALTHY HARVEST Scratch Grains Chicken Feed
This is what I use with a solar power bank to keep the hens' water from freezing.
