Literally thousands of people in the modern world are now turning to a more self-sufficient lifestyle, and one of the easiest and rewarding ventures is keeping your own chickens.
Chickens are not only a source of healthy, cheap food but they can actually become part of your family making great pets and kids of all ages adore them!
If you are reading this then you are probably considering keeping chickens yourself and I would guess that you already know someone who is.
The great thing about keeping chickens is that it is such a simple thing to do and what's more you only need a very small area to keep your them. It is possible to keep chickens in a small back yard as long as you know how to properly build a chicken run.
What is a chicken run & coop and why do you need them?
A chicken run, also known as a chicken pen, is generally an enclosed area situated in a yard or lawn, where your chickens are able to run loose and feed. There are two advantages to this.
Firstly free roaming chickens are going to be happy chickens and happy chickens tend to produce more eggs and also remain in good health.
Secondly it allows your chickens to live off eating bugs, worms and also minerals that they find in the ground around them. In effect they revert back to being the birds that they were designed to be and nothing like the battery farmed and mass production birds that we have become accustomed to.
A chicken run is usually enclosed within chicken wire or fences to keep predators such as foxes, predatory mammals and also birds of prey such as hawks away, and more often than not, a chicken run is attached to the chicken coop or house so that the chickens can easily come in and out of their coop as and when they please.
There are many types and sizes of chicken runs and coops available to buy from specialized suppliers, however because they are so easy to construct most people tend to build their own chicken runs. Not only that, even if you buy one flat packed you still have to build it!
Not only that, if you are keeping chickens to cut back on your food spending then it doesn't make much financial sense to outlay several hundred dollars on run when they are so easy to build and also quite good fun too!
Chicken runs are normally attached to the coop, which is the place where your chickens will live and lay their eggs. A chicken coop is also very easy to build yourself using simple plans you can find on the internet.
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