Chicken Coop Plans

Hi I’m Brad and you know I’m used to being good at things. And if I don’t know how to do things I’m good at finding out how I should go about it. So my frustration was huge when I couldn’t find simple plans I could follow to build my backyard chicken coop.

Just because I wasn’t been brought up with a hammer in my hand, I don’t see why I can’t learn how to build things if I want to. But it all looked hopeless at the start.

I did actually buy some standard plans. Waste of money. I couldn’t read any of those poultry house plans. They had all sorts of notations and dimensions on them I didn’t understand. And while there were instructions, the writers all assumed I already knew how to do all the stuff I didn’t know how to do. I felt frustrated, angry and frankly a bit stupid.

What a relief when my friend Pete ‘pointed me in the right direction’. Finally I had chicken coop plans I could understand. And the guys who wrote the instructions must have been mind readers. They’ve thought of everything that would be a problem for someone like me and gave instructions that were real easy to follow.

Suddenly I stopped feeling stupid because I didn’t get it and started to feel my old competent self as I followed those chicken house plans easily. And of course as I followed along I was slowly building my great little chicken coop. And boy did it feel good to see it slowly taking shape.

Hi, I’m Brad,  If you’re a weekend urban ‘farmer’, keen to keep chickens and have great fresh eggs for your family, then you’re probably like me keen to build your own. But you can’t do that until you can find good, easy to follow plans. Well keep reading because I’m going to tell you how I finally got great chicken coop plans. Unfortunately it took a while so that’s why I’m telling you my story so you can know there IS an answer out there and not give up like I nearly did .

(I can’t really explain how great my chicken coop designs were without telling you how hard it was for me to get it all right, but if you just want to go straight to what finally worked for me, click here)

The trouble with most of the poultry house plans I could buy was my ignorance. They were thick with complicated diagrams I couldn’t understand for starters. And they all assumed I know how to build things. Well unfortunately I don’t though I’m keen on getting better at it as long as I can get good solid help in knowing what to do. That was the trouble really with the first group of plans I found.. There was no one I could ask if I got stuck, no back up. I knew how ignorant I was, so I also knew I needed backup.

Then Pete and his wife came to visit and while I was showing him where I was going to put my chicken coop if I ever found out how to build one, he just laughed and gave me the information I needed about ‘getting good plans to follow’ for building chicken coops’

I went to my computer and found out all about www.chickendiyguides.com and realised I could feel safe using this product. That’s not the end of my story but I just wanted to tell you there is a way an enthusiastic, non builder can build a real great poultry house.