How To Keep Backyard Chickens

Build a great portable chicken coop and produce fresh economical eggs

What you'll learn

Build your own portable, four season, backyard chicken house from plans and instructions

Gain an understanding of how to take care of backyard chickens properly

Discover how and why free range chicken management is best

Understand how to keep your chickens healthy and happy

Requirements

No advanced building experience needed, just some basic woodworking tools

Description

If you’re ever wanted to keep a flock of backyard chickens, this course is for you. It covers everything you need to know and do to keep a happy, healthy, productive flock of laying hens to produce fresh, wholesome and ethically-raised eggs. But chickens need housing too, and that's why the course also includes print-quality plans for building a portable four-season chicken coop, with step-by-step construction steps and videos for people who've never built anything much before. The design is easy and inexpensive to build, and it works in all climates. The house is small and portable, and works well with a free-range approach that gives the birds access to sunshine, fresh grass and the chance for chickens to scratch the grow and enjoy their lives. The course also delivers reliable advice on choosing, raising and caring for a backyard flock based on 20+ years experience. 9 teaching videos show critical chicken coop construction details. Whether you live in the country or have got a backyard in a town or city, keeping backyard chickens is a great way to produce food for yourself while also having a lot of fun. There’s a reason keeping backyard chickens is something more and more people are doing.

Overview

Section 1: Backyard Chicken Coop Design

Lecture 1 PART 1 - Plans, Features and Design Philosophy

Lecture 2 VIDEO - CHICKEN HOUSE

Lecture 3 PART 2 - Plans, Features and Design Philosophy

Lecture 4 PART 1 - Cutting & Assembling Coop Front, Back, Sides & Bottom

Lecture 5 VIDEO - CREATING THE BOTTOM OF THE CHICKEN HOUSE

Lecture 6 PART 2 - Cutting & Assembling Coop Front, Back, Sides & Bottom

Lecture 7 VIDEO - ASSEMBLING THE SIDES AND BOTTOM

Lecture 8 PART 1 - Cutting and Assembling the Door & Trim

Lecture 9 VIDEO - GETTING THE DOOR RIGHT

Lecture 10 PART 2 - Cutting and Assembling the Door & Trim

Lecture 11 VIDEO - ADDING TRIM

Section 2: Building the Roof Frame, Legs & Handles

Lecture 12 PART 1 - Assembling the Roof Frame

Lecture 13 VIDEO: ASSEMBLING THE ROOF FRAME

Lecture 14 PART 2 - Assembling the Roof Frame

Lecture 15 VIDEO - ROOF EDGING

Lecture 16 PART 3 - Assembling the Roof Frame

Lecture 17 VIDEO - INSTALLING THE ROOF

Lecture 18 Assembling the Steel Legs, Handles, Roosts & Nesting Boxes

Lecture 19 VIDEO: STEEL PIPE LEGS AND HANDLES

Lecture 20 Caring for Chickens

Anyone who wants to experience the fun and self reliance of keeping a flock of backyard chickens