The best way to build a free-range chicken coop is to have a height difference between the inside and outside of the coop, to reserve windows for ventilation, to keep warm and insulated at the top, to have complete supporting facilities, and to have a firm grip on safety prevention and control.

1, chicken coop inside and outside the height difference

The chicken coop of free-range chicken in the laying of the ground, the indoor ground is better than the outdoor ground 25 to 35 centimeters higher, choose to build the chicken coop with a slight slope is the best place to go, but do not be too big. This construction of the chicken coop can avoid the internal ground of the chicken coop is too wet. You don't have to worry about rainwater backing up into the coop on stormy days.

2, set aside windows for ventilation

The chicken coop should set aside enough windows for ventilation, the window supporting the roller blinds to choose the lower part of the dark color, the upper part of the light-colored curtains. In the curtains of the lower part of the placement of some preventive gusts of wind will be blown up curtains of the facilities, can play a role in warmth and anti-burglary wind. The windows on the east and west walls of the chicken coop are the key to the ventilation of the chicken coop, especially in the summer, which is the key to the cooling of the chicken coop.

3, warmth and insulation at the top

In the top of the chicken coop should also be placed some straw or other insulation insulation and heat preservation, so that the temperature inside the chicken coop to avoid overheating or too cold. The door of the coop should be reinforced and locked, and rainproof eaves should be set above the door and windows to avoid rain drifting into the coop on rainy days and triggering stress.

4, supporting facilities should be complete

Chicken coop built, we must begin to build the external facilities of the chicken coop, the distance from the chicken coop can be a suitable location to play a water well, the water inside the warm winter and cool summer, not only to meet the chickens daily water supply, but also can be used by themselves. It is important to note that the water well should be surrounded by an isolation net to prevent chicken manure from contaminating the water source. Chicken sheds should be reasonably set up between chicken sheds according to the number of chickens and the density of fruit trees.

5, safety prevention and control should be grasped

In the periphery of the chicken coop, to use the isolation net farm and the outside world to isolate, and install monitoring, to prevent the chicken ran away or stolen by other animals, chicken coop around the wall and the chicken coop can also be installed inside the camera, easy to observe.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Chicken Coop (refers to the place where chickens roost)