Houses for chickens: from mini to automation with their hands
Stages of construction of three self-made chicken coops with a detailed cost estimate, manufacturing techniques and colorful pictures
Many owners of suburban areas reflect on the conduct of private farming (LPH). Someone puts vegetables and greens in greenhouses, someone wants to organize a mini-farm and grow some zhivotinku. For example, rabbits or chickens. It is believed that it is beneficial and useful. On the table will always be a dietary meat and eggs, and the excess can be sold. As a rule, the majority, to test their strength, starting with chicken breeding and building chicken coops own hands. To simplify your task, we offer our readers three options for chicken coops for every taste and budget.
Content:
- How to make a chicken coop for 2500 rubles
- How to build a warmed, heated and automated chicken coop
- How to make their own hands a chicken coop, which will decorate the area
Mini-coop for little money
First we show some homemade chicken coop turned out at the user's portal with the nickname Farutina90 just 2.5 thousand. rub.
Now tell me how to do it.
Farutina90
I LPH 15 acres and lease 15 more. Plus areas for our two hundred square meters allocated for fire pond. Land grabs. The farm has a Chinese silk chickens, turkeys, ducks, broilers. On the site there is a large chicken coop for the birds year-round residence.
Farutina90
But my husband and I decided to build a summer inexpensive chicken coop, and made it for two days and only for 2500 rubles.
Mini chicken coop built on the basis of a model taken from the Internet.
Coop wearer is made based on a metal frame, the remainder of the summer shower size 2500h1500h2000 mm. Details required for construction:
- profile 5h2.5 cm;
- Cutting boards;
- remnants of polycarbonate;
- residues metal grid with a mesh 2.5h2.5 cm.
These gates were already available, and the price is not included in the total cost of the mini-coop.
For the manufacture of small summer coop Farutina90 I bought:
- circle for angle grinders for metal stripping - 100 rub .;
- paint for wood and priming enamel for metal - 400 rub .;
- for trapezoidal sheet roofs coop - 1100 rub .;
- skate for the roof - 400 rub .;
- screws and hinges - 500 rubles.
Total: 2500 rubles.
Do zealous owners always have something in the bins, which throw a pity, but it can be successfully used for the construction of small hozpostroek, kennels for dogs or chicken coop. And, thus, reduce the overall cost estimate.
Construction of mini-coop divided into several stages:
- Metal frame with welded rafters put on dug into the ground concrete blocks.
- Frame sheathed board in the "Christmas tree", polycarbonate and consolidated net.
- The rear wall of the henhouse, for easy access, made of OSB thickness of 9 mm.
Ready chicken coop.
The inhabitants of the hen house.
Farutina90
Bird quickly obzhila house. Already, a new generation of hens. Mini-coop get a very easy to use and affordable in price. If desired, it can be warmed and be used for year-round living chickens.
Automated henhouse with heating, LED lighting and controlled door walking
Advanced coop made on frame technology with their hands by the user with the nickname FORUMHOUSE Dikman74.
First, the user made a drawing of a chicken coop in a special program.
Next, he started the construction of a frame house for the birds.
Chicken coop made by the classical scheme adopted in Frame-house construction.
All the wood is impregnated Bioprotective primer.
Roof avian house is insulated with rock wool having a thickness of 5 cm.
As expected, it is made from the inside vapor barrier.
And outside, on the roof, moisture and wind protection.
The ridge film cut to a heater does not accumulate in the condensate.
From inside the hen house is sheathed OSB.
Wall insulation henhouse for year-round operation.
Facade coop - wall paneling, which is then painted with white paint.
Framework for chicken nests.
Insulated cover.
ventilation device in the henhouse.
Sex henhouse insulated with mineral wool with a thickness of 10 cm.
Construction of the cage for a bird walking.
Enclosure lined with galvanized grid with a mesh 25x25 mm.
The roof of the enclosure is made of transparent polycarbonate.
Flooring coop - linoleum.
Dikman74
Nests inside whitened izvostkoy adding dark caramel, t. K., Somewhere I read that in the nests to be darker.
Ready House for chickens outside.
Utilities automated chicken coop
After finishing the construction of the chicken coop, the user has started manufacturing its filling engineering.
Dikman74
I set the task - to make coverage with a smooth ignition and attenuation over time, opening and closing the door on walking time based on the ambient temperature, the inclusion of heating ventilation + depending on the temperature inside house.
Installation of lighting and mechanical ventilation in the henhouse.
Block soft ignition and lighting attenuation.
For automatic door opening used walking actuator (motor) with the working stroke length of 35 cm and a speed of 10 mm per sec.
Schematic diagram of the system.
Electric automatic chicken coop close-up control system control box.
The installed system.
Dikman74
Bottom three timers, the extreme left opens, closes the door, tied to the temperature switch, the door will not open in sub-zero temperatures. In the middle of the timer on-off light. Thermal relay associated with heating the house + the inclusion of forced ventilation.
The heating system is made of a henhouse IR-meter length of film laid on both sides of the inner roof surface.
IR film is attached to a stapler SIR on the reverse side of the rack, so that during heating, due to the air gap, there convection.
Lighting coop is made on the basis of a 12-volt LED tape on an aluminum strip with aluminum profile.
Autodrinking henhouse is made from a tank 10 l.
The henhouse is 3 drinkers inside and outside 5.
Roosting bar made of, section of 4x5 cm.
Stairway to the chicken coop.
Staircase leading to the roost, is hinged for easy cleaning the chicken coop.
The nests are conventional ladder made from the remnants of the materials remaining after the construction of the chicken coop.
On the floor of the chicken coop is scattered chips.
- The overall dimensions of the chicken coop - 2000h4000 mm.
- The dimensions of the house for the chickens - 2000h2000 mm.
- The height of the chicken house elevation - 600 mm.
- The height of the house from floor to ceiling - 2200 mm.
Dikman74
Door-range runs like clockwork. In the summer of the door is always open. The cold working of the sensor. Now henhouse live one cock and seven hens. Eggs missing, store them in the refrigerator.
Hen house as from a picture in the style - a mini-chalet
At the end of the article will show an unusual chicken coop that can decorate any country site and perfectly fit into the landscape design.
Taras_Pіdlіsny
user FORUMHOUSE
Hen house made of timber, and was very comfortable and beautiful. Outside it is sheathed block house, which is then painted.
Nodes henhouse close up.
Beautiful hen house and its inhabitants.
Yet one embodiment of the henhouse beautiful Tarasa_Pіdlіsny covered with shingles.
Everyone who has been breeding rabbits and chickensWe recommend to familiarize with the topic, Which describes in detail, both with their own hands to build a great coop and comfortable cages for breeding rabbits.
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