Building a Chicken Coop

Reader Contribution by Matt Kelly
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Chickens rock. There’s just no getting around it: they’re great animals to have around the homestead for food, garden management, compost and entertainment. Seriously, watching Chicken TV is a great way to spend a little down time.

One way to make the chicken experience even more rewarding is to build your own coop. Creating the thing

that gives your birds shelter and protection is incredibly satisfying. You can build a coop that’s superior to many pre-fab units. You can do it for cheap. And it’s easy.

Of course, you’d never know it was easy from my experience: it took me over a year to build the current coop.

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