Six things to be kept in mind before starting a chicken coop.
Appearance and design: the first and foremost thing to be kept in mind is how the poultry should be and what color should be.
Also keep in mind that it should always be visible to neighbors.
It should not affect the neighbors and everyday at the end of the days work it should be cleaned.
The second thing using sound judgments: Before starting up the poultry farm one should noise coming from the poultry farm should not disturb others.
The third most important thing is protect the poultry from bad climate: it is necessary to look whether the weather is suitable to start a poultry form or not.
It should be protected from rain, wind and other natural calamities.
Proper air circulation: It is important for the poultry farm to be closed to protect the chickens inside it.
Even so, chickens like human beings need fresh air and oxygen.
it s it is important to have proper ventilation.
Proper lighting facilities: chickens should be provided proper lighting important point: if that persons objectives is to increase the chickens through which more eggs are produced through out the year then they can go for electrical source of light.
it should become easy to install an electrical light to the extent of chicken coop interior room.
Which helps their chickens to produce more eggs every year.
One interior light is enough for small-scale chicken coop.
Clean water should be kept.
First thing is to decide how big the farm should be: small chicken farm needs 3-4 if they have 7-8 chickens they should need 24-32 square feet.
Protecting the poultry from cold wheather: they should take certain steps to protect the hens from affecting cold.
Hot wheather: it is also necessary to protect hens from hot hot whether through ventilations.
Preches and nests: hens like to sleep hight of the floor.
preachess must be at least 18"-24"off the floor.
Then they should need a staircase to get on the preaches.
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