Chicken Coop Plans for our DIY Backyard Chicken Coop

For the last six months, we have started to raise some chickens on our backyard. My little daughter wanted to have a pet and my husband suggested to get some chickens.

I laughed at him at first. Chickens as pet? He must be joking! After a chat with him, we decided to get a couple of chicks to try it out. My daughter was ecstatic seeming all the cute yellow chicks running around.

After a few days, we realize the chicks were getting less and less in numbers. We didn’t know what happened at first, but then another one got missing the next day.

The chicks were left in an opened box in our backyard under the shades. Apparently, we have a predator. It was a cat!

A neighbor’s cat has been coming into our backyard and killing our chicks. We didn’t dare telling our daughter what happened or it will break her little heart.

I told my husband we have got to do something about it.

Should we get a dog to guard against the cat?

But wouldn’t the dog endangered the chicks also? In the end, we decided to build a chicken shelter for them. We were going to make a backyard chicken coop.

I was very excited about the idea of having a DIY chicken coop project for the family. I started to so some research. My husband wanted to get started right away.

Knowing him, he will start hammering wooden planks together and it will be an unsightly result. On the other hand, I wanted to get a chicken coop plans first. So I’m off to the web!

There were quite a lot of material on the internet about chicken coop plans. Some look small and simple while some look rather complicated.

I managed to download some chicken coop designs from the web, but the quality was not very good and we couldn’t see the blueprint.

In the end, I managed to stumble upon on an e-book “Building a Chicken Coop” by Bill Keene. The price was pretty reasonable so I decided to buy it.

Next, I’ll write more on our little DIY backyard chicken coop project. Here’s Bill Keene’s e-book that I bought, have a look yourself:

==> Bill Keene’s “Building a Chicken Coop” plans