Archive for the ‘Chicken Arks’ Category

Keeping chickens is easy and very rewarding. I still love going out to the chicken ark and collecting, warm, fresh eggs. In the early days, though I was bewildered. I didn’t know what I needed to get started, what information I needed or what kind of chicken house to get. There was a huge array [...]

If you’ve been thinking 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, choose a chicken ark. 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 don’t want to buy ready-made and do want to save yourself loads, try these chicken coop plans.
If you do want to buy - check out this type of hen house - but note they  are  “Made by Experienced Poultry Keepers for the serious fancier” - Tried & Tested and built to [...]

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 [...]