One important aspect that you absolutely do not want to leave you out of your chicken coop plan and build him a chicken coop for the birds to sleep. Chickens do not like to sleep on the floor of the cage or nesting boxes, but instead prefer these "roosts," raised platform where they can gather together at night.
This is because in order to act in the wild birds due to safety razloga.Piletina brain is hardwired for larger countries such as safer ground. This means that predators can not reach them so easily. In the wild, birds often sleep in the branches of trees or other similarly built parts of the terrain. This behavior is as true in a contained environment like a chicken coop. After all, your bird does not know why they do it. Only that makes them feel safe.
With this in mind, it is not surprising that chicks like to sleep in the highest possible place inside your chicken coop. Do not build your nest box is too high off the ground, because it means that birds will sleep in them instead, which tends to be much messier and more difficult to clean. Chickens naturally defecate during sleep, which does not necessarily want to be going, where you collect the eggs! Therefore, it is also important to make sure that you build roosts are on the same level.
If you build a more leveled roost, your chickens will sometimes fight each other to get the most points, even if not, the birds at lower levels will become quite dirty with chicken droppings during noć.Križ design, where roosting bars intersect at right angles, can increase the space in the cage, and solve the problem of the struggle for most sleeping spot. Another way to prevent your bird from the struggle over the roosting area to make sure that it is about 9 or 10 inches horizontally roosting space for each chicken. Less space than it is too crowded.
No matter how you choose to organize your roosts in the coop, the method of construction should be just about the same. You'll want to use some kind of wood for the roosts themselves, although exactly what you use is up to you. Dowel rods work well, although you want to make sure they are thick enough to hold the weight of all their chickens. 2 "x 2" planks or 2 "x 4" boards and working perfectly. If you use the boards, though, you might want to get back round the edges, as this will facilitate your bird keeping their roosting platforms while they sleep. Make sure that the wood itself is smooth as well, or the birds will get splinters.
is something you can do to make cleaning the cage easier to just put a clean surface under the roosts. As already mentioned, the hens tend to defecate a lot during the night, so make sure you do not put roosts up somewhere you want to keep extra clean, like your nesting area. Some people put a sort of "litter box" under their nests, which can be removed from the Coop and clean tjedno.Piletina droppings and bedding material you use can make for a great mulch or compost!