Chicken Arks - Attractive and Mobile Solutions for Keeping Small Numbers of Chickens
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A chicken ark is often the best way to house a flock of up to six hens. It’s a triangular shape, with run and coop all contained and can be easy to construct if you have some chicken ark plans.
Chicken arks are tent shaped, and have either a covered section for roosting and nesting at one end, or the larger ones have the coop part in the apex at the top with a run underneath. It’s fundamentally one portable unit.
Chicken Arks normally have some kind of handles each end so they can be moved around easily.
When you have a permanent chicken coop and run, you’ll end up with an area without any vegetation as the chickens peck it clear. With a chicken ark, the hens get access to new grass as you move the ark around, and you keep them safe from predators.
Its a really flexible way of housing your chickens. For example in the fall you can put the chicken ark on open beds so the birds fertilize, cultivate the ground and eat the bugs.
People new to keeping chickens are concerned that they’ll damage their plants or escape to the neighbors. The fact is that they don’t do much damage, and you’ll probably forgive them the odd strawberry. One answer is to let them out in late afternoon as the hens will be ready to be tucked up again at dusk.
Chicken arks are fully enclosed, so the run should protect your hens during the day. At night they will be tucked up in their coop, safe from any predator that may be capable of digging under the run.
If you want to make a chicken ark, you should find for most of it, you can use pieces of wood left from other projects and only need to find some tough wire for the run, so it is predator proof and can’t be chewed.
Chicken ark plans are available to download and help you through the cutting and building process. If you use good, clear plans, you’ll save time and have a successful chicken ark that will last you for years.
