Archive for the ‘Chicken Arks’ Category

OK, so you’ve been toying with the idea of keeping chickens, but you’re unsure whether you’ll want to commit long-term - and reluctant to invest too much in a swanky chicken coop. Chicken arks can be great for beginners because they are cheap, are just right a small flock of three or four hens and [...]

If you need to keep your chickens safe and contained, simple fencing will do. it will keep them off the rest of the plot. This solution works well when you have a fair amount of rough ground - the chickens here will peck and scratch this area clean, then it can be dug over [...]

If you keep your chickens in a chicken shed or run, you obviously have to feed them. They will not get access to the same variety of diet that hens allowed to peck and roam have. Thee has been much discussion about the difference in the nutritional values of eggs from hens kept in different [...]

The basic triangular shape of the chicken ark (or chicken tractor as they’re often called), allows for a wide range of permutations of size and proportions. As a guide, each chicken needs two square feet of ground and a nine inch wide space on a perch for roosting. Adjust your measurements to suit the number [...]