subject: Getting the Most Out of Your Hen Ark Plans [print this page] Getting the Most Out of Your Hen Ark Plans
Are you looking for hen ark plans that will allow you maximum production in a back yard setting? There are a few things you will need to know.
First you will need to know a little bit about how large chicken ranchers go about getting results. These are chicken ranchers who raise chickens for profit. These ranchers buy, raise and, sell chickens by the thousands each year.
The housing for these chickens is quite large, even though chickens don't need much room to grow and become producers. Most of the larger hatcheries provide all the basic needs a chicken requires, a balanced nutritional feed, plenty of water, and a clean healthy environment. There are some of the larger hatcheries playing music over loud speakers to sooth the chickens. Studies have found that the chickens respond to the music by soothing them and helping them to be better egg producers. The feed mix of grain and vitamins also help with larger eggs and more frequent production of eggs.
When you are looking for hen ark plans for your back yard remember how the big ranchers do it, and just scale it down. Rather than building a chicken coop that's 25ft. x 25ft., all you really need is a plan scaled down to 5ft.x5ft. These dimensions will fit your needs just fine. Check out Google search engine and look for hen ark plans, building a chicken coop, or chicken coop plans, hit search and you will find some excellent plans. You will find some simple stuff and some really cool stuff. Even the small scale plans can be very extreme if you let your imagination run wild and that's what you're after. The one thing you have to remember is that no matter what kind of hen ark plans you decide on, the key to good healthy chickens that will produce for you consistently is keep your chickens well feed, watered, and keep your coop clean.
You might ask what keeping your ark clean contributes with your chicken egg production. Well there are a lot of factors and reasons why you should stay involved in keep your hen ark clean that will increase production like changing your hay or straw in your laying boxes. By changing you're bedding every week or at least every two weeks will help you help keep lice and mites from infesting your chickens and getting them sick. A sick hen is a non productive hen. If you have a hen ark with a closed wall design keeping your coop and your boxes clean helps keep the toxic fumes from building up from the chicken waste droppings that can build up and produce strong ammonia fumes. That is another way your chickens can become sick and non productive. No matter what style of hen ark plans you ultimately decide on, make your hen ark easily accessible in all areas to service your hens and to maintain your coop.
