Chicken House Building Plan – Woodworking4Home Blueprint Review

Here’s a website that most people would not know unless you are a woodworking enthusiast. It is John Metz’s Woodworking4Home site.

John Metz is a professional woodworker from Wisconsin and he has put together one of the largest collection of woodworking project plans and blueprints on the web. The members’ area has a whopping 14,000 plus project plans!

The last couple of days, I was trying to look for good chicken house building plan on the internet. By chance, I stumble upon the Woodworking4Home site.

I browse through the project categories and was quite pleased there is a section on DIY chicken house plans. I bought the pack and immediately downloaded the chicken coop plans.

Woodworking4Home Chicken Coop Plan Review

The plan that I downloaded is actually in pdf format. When I opened the file, there’s a diagram of the completed chicken house. The title written there “small chicken house”, but it looks kind of big to me.

The chicken house design is actually 8 x 8 feet and you can have 15 – 20 hens living in it. The blueprint then proceeds to explain the main function of the coop, which is to provide protection for the birds from the element, predators, injury and theft. I could not agree more.

The coop design has everything the chicken living in it would need such as ample space, perches, nests, feeder and waterer, light source and ventilation.

At the bottom of the plan, there is a diagram showing the cut away view of the chicken house with all the measurements and dimensions for the wood members.

All in all, the chicken house building plan from Woodworking4Home seems decent. However, if you really want to make the coop on your own, you need to have some woodworking and carpentry experience. Nonetheless, it gives you an idea on what’s involved in making your own DIY chicken coop for your backyard.