I started a new poultry farm. I am facing problem in building strong coop. I search on the web and I found the site
http://urbancoopcompany.com/product/round-top-chicken-coop/ this site made backyard chicken chop. But I have no idea about their backyard chicken coop quality. Before buying
backyard chicken coop from them I want sure about their chicken coop quality. If anyone has any idea about the site then please reply me. And also please inform what are the things I should judge before buying or making a chicken coop.
Hi Kaiyum,
You really came to the right place to find out about your chicken needs...BYC has all the answers. One thing that you may want to do is type in chicken coops on the search bar at the top and pop up LOADS of postings that will give you more choices than you ever wanted to think of....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/9/coop-run-design-construction-maintenance Here are 400,000 posts for you.
In some ways a coop is as personal as a personal computer or a car...You need to itemize your needs and criteria.
How many chickens do you plan to keep? Will you be breeding them? What restrictions do you face...is extreme heat a problem? is extreme cold something to deal with? Do you want to move the coop around to new grass from time to time? Do you want to repaint yearly etc.?? Are predators a threat in your area?
Every chicken keeper you talk to will give you different views.
Here are some criteria that work for me.
1. I can assemble it myself
2. I can move it myself
3. Predator proof
4. Easy to clean
5. Easy to maintain
I went the route of plastic so I don't need to paint and refinish yearly. My advice to anyone would be to use one that has a slide out poop tray and on the tray use PDZ
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/621363/poop-board-convert-warning-graphic-gross-poop-pictures
The spoiledChicken did such a good job with this explanation, that in the first dozen discussions you get the gist -- then people seemed to be reasking questions and she graciously kept repeating the answers.
Because I am going to be breeding Cream Legbars, I prefer many smaller houses and runs to one giant enclosure, I want to know the exact parentage of all the chicks - or at least one parent if I get eggs or chicks from someone and then as time goes past I will close the flock and keep my own pedigress...
Snaplock has some plastic coops that are insulated, and the design is savvy -- The legs give more ground space to the chooks, and the same design for legs fits both the small and large coop.
You are so smart to investigate and ask the questions. Biggest thing -- make sure raccoons, coyotes, foxes, neighbor dogs, hawks etc. cannot get to your chickens.....
http://snaplockchickencoops.com/chicken-coop-pictures.html
ETA - they are light weight -- 45 - 65 pounds I would guess...and I left one on a table -- we had one of those prairie windstorms whipping up -- what 45-50MPH winds and it blew off the table. (it wasn't occupied at the time) -- It was undamaged...but it was weird to see it blown. Wind is strange here. Subsequently, attached to a set of legs, and placed inside a cattle panel chicken run--- (hooped)-- it hasn't blown since.
