Keeping Your Chickens Save and Healthy

If the place you are staying does not allow you to raise chicken, you can confront this restriction by finding out the procedure for amending the law or zoning in your location.

Sometimes, all you need to do is a request a zoning variance. Doing so will allow you to keep the chickens based on your particular circumstances.

Sometimes, getting the permission to raise chicken at home is just a formality. If you are unlucky, it can turn into a major court battle. Honestly, I wouldn’t want to go that far because of all the hassle. In other cases, you’ll probably be required to attend a commission meeting and state your case.

Go to your local town office and check with the city clerk, the township supervisor or other local government official in regards to your request.

They will advise you whether a planning commission meeting or other committee meeting is required. Find out the date, time and location of the meeting. You want to make sure you attend the meeting to present your case. Sometimes, you need to make an appointment to speak at the meeting or to bring up certain issues.

What do you need when you want to raise chicken at home and you are confronted with local restrictions?

You will need lots of patient. Some of the zoning changes can take months of discussion and mulling over. If you do not succeed the first time, ask what you can do to change the outcome the next time.

Then try and present your request again. It will take some iron will on your part. Sooner or later, you will get what you want if you have a compelling case.

What is the best thing about raising your own chicken at home?

It is the fresh organic eggs you’ll get for breakfast. Somehow, eggs from the chicken you raised on your own taste better.

If you are keeping chickens in your backyard, remember, they need a lot of care. Due to their small size, the birds are susceptible to urban predators such as dogs, cats, large rats, raccoons etc.

To keep the bantams safe, it is best for you get a chicken house for them to live in.

To get a chicken coop, you can head over to your local hardware store and purchase one off the shelves. If you are good with hand tools, you can also save some money by making your own chicken coop. What you will need is a good chicken housing plan.

If you are looking for a simple and easy DIY chicken coop guide, check out Bill Keene’s Building a Chicken Coop manual.

Who is Bill Keene?

Bill is a poultry farmer with more than 15 years of experience. He understands the importance of having a backyard chicken coop to keep the bantams safe and happy.

What Bill promised in his e-book is a low cost and yet functional coop. With his recommendation, all you need is some basic tools such as handsaw, hammer, drill etc to make the coop.

The blueprint was created with lots of pictures and diagrams so a kid can look at it and understands immediately.

What do you get with Bill’s Building a Chicken Coop e-book?

You’ll get the plans for a portable chicken coop, midsize coop, large coop and also an extra large double storey chicken mansion.

As a bonus, Bill has also thrown is e-books on how to source for cheap building material, guide on choosing best material for the ground, nesting box designs and also guide to choosing the best location for the coop.

Is the chicken coop manual worth your investment?

To add value, Bill has included his personal 60 days money back guarantee. If you don’t like his plans for whatever reason, you can ask for a full refund within 60 days from the purchase date. There is no risk on you whatsoever.

Therefore, if you love your chickens and you like to keep them safe and away from harm, build a chicken coop for them to live in. Check out Bill Keene’s e-book and find out how to get started.

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In my last blog post, I wrote about a video on how to make a DIY chicken nesting box. It’s a very basic chicken nesting for your backyard chicken coops but it gets the job done.

After the post, I got a feedback from one of my blog reader, Charles from the United States. He sent me couple of pictures of how he used a couple of old fiberglass containers to make a chicken nesting.

I think that’s a very creative way of using whatever resources we have to make the nesting area for the bantams. I don’t think the hen would mind though. As long as she has a dry space for her to brood the eggs, she’ll be very happy.

Check out the pictures below of Charles’ chicken nesting work in progress.

DIY Chicken Nesting on the back of a truck