If you are a chicken lover who’s fond of daily fresh eggs and chicken meat, then you would want to raise your own chicken and set out a chicken coup on your own backyard. If you have a spacious backyard you can build a medium to big sized chicken house. Even if you have a small backyard you can still have a small chicken coop with 4 to 5 birds.

Chickens are a very nice type of fowls to have as pets and raise. They are easy to manage and maintain. The cost of building a backyard chicken coup can also be minimized considerably by building it on your own. There are excellent chicken coup plans that can be downloaded from the Internet for a small cost. These guides not only give you the plans but also the list of material required to build a house for the birds and the place to procure the items. Some of the plans even give you the option of using existing material that you may have as a left over from one of your previous projects.

Once you have chosen a good guide you will then proceed to follow the step-by-step instructions. Oftentimes, the best chicken coup guides also provide video tutorials for visually explaining things. If you properly follow the guide you should be able to build a backyard chicken coup over a weekend. Some of the essential factors to bear in mind while building the chicken coup are - ventilation, orientation, weather proofing, lighting, flooring, security and protection from outside predators, nesting boxes, roosting, feeder and waterer.

Once you have paid keen attention to the above mentioned factors you will be able to build a backyard chicken coup that will eventually make these fowls happy and comfortable, and you will be rewarded with a supply of fresh chicken meat and eggs.