If you are a chicken breeder, and you have baby chicks, you will soon realize how fast they grow as the days go by. Eventually, you will need a place to house your fast growing chicks. This is the exact time to consider creating a chicken coup for them.

Take a trip straight to your favourite hardware store and make a list of all the materials you will need to get started with your chicken coup creation. This DIY task will certainly cost you less than a hundred dollars. You will need a few pieces of wood, chicken wires, and some hinges to fasten your coup door for starters.

If you are completely clueless on how to get started, then log on to the World Wide Web for design and plans you can utilize for your chicken coup project. You will surely find a wealth of information on how you can get started with your DIY chicken coup plan. Just bear in mind your growing chicks and how soon they'll need a place to stay and inhabit. There were a few designs online to choose from. Make sure to choose a simple design which you will least likely to mess up. And, most importantly, bear in mind that you needed a design that you could complete in a short span of time. After downloading and printing the design plans and making a list of everything I needed, I headed straight back to the store to get the materials. All I needed was some lumber and some chicken wire. I already had the nails, screws, hinges, hammers and saws I needed at home.

This task is not as daunting as it seem, you will just need to know how to use the hammer, saw and cut your wood pieces and chicken wire appropriately for them to fit your chicken coup design and technical plans. Make sure that you have the floors all sloped from the main door, well-ventilated, and can dry up easily to avoid harmful outside elements from plaguing your chicks. Just follow the DIY steps and you will definitely create a very good chicken coup that's safe, clean, and habitable for your fast growing chicks.