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How to Keep Backyard Chickens
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(18 ratings)
4,108 students

How to Keep Backyard Chickens

Build a great portable chicken coop and produce fresh economical eggs
Created bySteve Maxwell
Last updated 2/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Build your own portable, four season, backyard chicken house from plans and instructions
  • Gain an understanding of how to take care of backyard chickens properly
  • Discover how and why free range chicken management is best
  • Understand how to keep your chickens healthy and happy

Course content

2 sections20 lectures1h 4m total length
  • PART 1 - Plans, Features and Design Philosophy5:24
  • VIDEO - CHICKEN HOUSE6:13

    Before you go any further, watch the video up next for an overall tour of the building plans. Getting a sense of the design and how parts come together will make it much easier for you to build well.

  • PART 2 - Plans, Features and Design Philosophy4:15
  • PART 1 - Cutting & Assembling Coop Front, Back, Sides & Bottom1:03
  • VIDEO - CREATING THE BOTTOM OF THE CHICKEN HOUSE3:49
  • PART 2 - Cutting & Assembling Coop Front, Back, Sides & Bottom3:58
  • VIDEO - ASSEMBLING THE SIDES AND BOTTOM3:52
  • PART 1 - Cutting and Assembling the Door & Trim1:30
  • VIDEO - GETTING THE DOOR RIGHT3:43
  • PART 2 - Cutting and Assembling the Door & Trim0:54
  • VIDEO - ADDING TRIM3:31

Requirements

  • No advanced building experience needed, just some basic woodworking tools

Description

If you’re ever wanted to keep a flock of backyard chickens, this course is for you. It covers everything you need to know and do to keep a happy, healthy, productive flock of laying hens to produce fresh, wholesome and ethically-raised eggs. But chickens need housing too, and that's why the course also includes print-quality plans for building a portable four-season chicken coop, with step-by-step construction steps and videos for people who've never built anything much before. The design is easy and inexpensive to build, and it works in all climates. The house is small and portable, and works well with a free-range approach that gives the birds access to sunshine, fresh grass and the chance for chickens to scratch the grow and enjoy their lives. The course also delivers reliable advice on choosing, raising and caring for a backyard flock based on 20+ years experience. 9 teaching videos show critical chicken coop construction details. Whether you live in the country or have got a backyard in a town or city, keeping backyard chickens is a great way to produce food for yourself while also having a lot of fun. There’s a reason keeping backyard chickens is something more and more people are doing.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to experience the fun and self reliance of keeping a flock of backyard chickens