If you want to join the growing hordes of people keeping chickens in their back yard you will need somewhere to keep them.
But, as you will soon find out, the cost of pre built chicken coops are astronomical!
The answer is simple, Build Your Own Chicken Run…
My First Chicken Run
With a little help from my dad…
When I was just a young boy I had a fascination with what seemed like the hundreds of animals that my dad kept in our back yard. In reality it wasn’t many, twenty rabbits (prize winning dutch), about sixty budgies, three tortoises, five guinea pigs, and a dozen or so chickens.
Now keeping the chickens was a bit weird, as my dad managed a poultry farm with over twenty thousand of them, maybe a bit like bring some work home with you!
But one day why riding my bike around the yard I accidentally ran into the chicken pen, with predictable results, it fell apart…
Luckily for me my dad had a sense of humour sometimes, and that day was one of those days. My punishment was to help him build a new chicken house, some punishment for a boy who just loved messing about with bits of wood.
After a few days we had knocked together the chicken’s new home, just a shame that we didn’t have access to some of the great plans that are available now as it wasn’t a pretty site.
Take Your Chicken Coop Away From Amateur
The cost of buying a pre-built chicken coop can run from the hundreds into the thousands of dollars but you do get something that looks good.
But with a little help you can build one for a fraction of the cost, and it doesn’t have to look a shambles.
There are a number of guides available that take you by the hand and gently lead you through the whole process, from deciding where to site your new chicken run, to sourcing the best materials, right through to deciding how many chickens you should keep.
How Much Can You Save By Building Your Own Chicken Run?
For too many years your only option was to renovate an old shed or buy a pre-build chicken coop. A pre-built chicken coop with installation normally costs over $1,000.
But now with the help of the detailed guides available you can join the revolution of Do It Yourselfer’s who figured out how to cheaply build their own Chicken Coop, without having something that looked like my first attempt!.
A good guide will walk you through the step-by-step process of constructing a chicken coop and chicken run. You can easily do it for less then $100 if you do a little extra work in collecting materials, so savings from hundreds to thousands of dollars are possible.
5 Good Reasons To Build Your Own Chicken Run
1. It Works! Thousands of people have successfully built their own Chicken Coop
2. Saves Money – you save money when you don’t have to spend thousands on a “retail chicken coop”
3. GO GREEN – Do your part to stop the mishandling of chickens in commercial battery cages!
4. Produce your own Eggs – No eggs taste better (or are healthier) then fresh eggs from your backyard.
5. It’s Fun – just wait until your friends and family see what you have created!
The author has always had a fascination with birds and animals due to living in a house with literally hundreds of them around!
Chickens were always a large part of this number so building and repairing the chicken run was always a fun part of growing up.
These days you have a growing number of great DIY guides available to you.
This one is possibly one of the better ones – Build Your Own Chicken Run
Authors bio is coming up shortly. 
