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10 Amazing DIY Chicken Coop Projects

A chicken coop doesn’t take a lot of space. A free spot in your backyard is perfect. Raising chickens has many benefits. You will have fresh and healthy eggs and your chicks will fertilize and eat the insects that could harm your plants.
Il you think you are ready, maybe the best option is to build your own chicken coop. This way you can make the coop the size you want, depending on the space you have and the number of chickens you want to raise. And the best is that you give the coop any aspect you want.
By raising chickens at home, you can control what they eat. This can benefit your health too. Check the selection of great chicken coops below. Choose the one you want to build yourself or get more ideas for you own chicken coop plan.
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1. The Palace Chicken Coop

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2. Build a Simple Chicken Coop

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3. DIY PVC Chicken Feeder

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4. Simple Living Chicken Coop

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6. 5-Gallon Bucket Nesting Box

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7. Urban Chicken Coop

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8. Portable Poultry Pen

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9. 5-Gallon Bucket Chicken Waterer

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10. 5-Gallon Bucket Chicken Feeder

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Build This Chicken Coop and All Accessories from A to Z for Less Than $50

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13 Cool Homesteading DIY Projects For Preppers

1. Create a DIY Greenhouse

You can make your own greenhouse for $50. Growing food is essential for an off the grid homesteader/prepper. A greenhouse will extend your growing season so you can produce more food!

Here are 10 DIY Simple Greenhouse Plans

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Get instructions here

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2. Build a Potatoe Gardening Box

Even if you live in a city and don’t have a lot of space, you will be able to grow 100 pounds of potatoes in only 4 square feet. Imagine how much food you could produce if you build several gardening boxes!

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Get instructions here

3. Homemade Vinegar

The homesteader multi-purpose product: health, household, pets, beauty, etc. Very easy to make and so useful. You just need some apples, water and a container. Learn how to make your own apple cider vinegar and how to use this awesome tool!

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Get instructions here

4. Build a Wind Powered Water Pump

Make a water pump that runs on wind out of bicycle parts! This project will increase your self-sufficiency. This pump can be used for your water supply or your garden!

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Get instructions here

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5. Make Your Own Cooking Oil

Don’t rely on the grocery store and make your own cooking oil with these instructions.

6. Preserve Tomatoes with Canning Jars

Preserving tomatoes is the most simple canning you can do when you are a beginner. This is a recipe for stewed tomatoes, but there are all sorts of delicious recipes out there for tomatoes.

Canning 101 for beginners here.

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Get instructions here.

7. Build Your Own Chicken Coop

You are not a real homesteader without chicken. You will get instructions to build all you need for raising chicken: chicken coop, feeders, waterers, nesting boxes. Get your chicken coop on a budget!

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8. Build an Easy Outdoor Rocket Stove

Create an alternative cooking source with this simple rocket stove!

9. Make Your Own Canned Pickles

After harvesting your cucumbers from your garden, a great way to preserve them is making canned pickles. Grow in summer and eat in winter!

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10. Get Food from Mother Nature

Our ancestors didn’t rely only on the food they produced. They also harvested wild plants, fruits and mushrooms. But they were also good hunters, fishers and trappers. Wild food is an extra source of supply that is free and can make you thrive in a SHTF situation.

TOP 10 WILD EDIBLE PLANTS

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AUTOMATIC FISHING POLE

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11. Learn to Bake Without an Oven

Before the industrial age, many farmers didn’t have an oven because it was too expensive. A very good project is to cook your food with a Dutch oven!

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Get instructions here

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12. Make Homemade Cheese

Learn to make goat cheese and mozzarella from fresh milk!

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Get instructions here

13. Build Your own Metal Foundry and Make Your own Tools

Make a Mini Metal Foundry

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Make Your Tools from Soda Cans

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Chicken Coop For Less Than 50$

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Build this awesome chicken coop and get all accessories you need for pennies on the dollars! Raising chicken is a great way to increase your self-sufficiency. They produce meat, eggs, feather and manure. Food for you and your garden. And chicken control all the pests in your garden!

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Chicken Nesting Box With 5 Gallons Bucket

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Turn 5 gallons buckets into nesting boxes. It’s so easy! Check it out here.

Egg laying chickens should have a comfortable place to sit and nest if you don’t want them to lay eggs here and there and everywhere. All pre-made chicken coops or chicken coop plans will include 12″x12″x12″ nesting boxes (one cubic foot), which is considered to be big enough for all sizes of laying hen.

A standard 5 gallon plastic bucket has a radius of 5.5″ and a depth of 14″, making its volume 0.76 cubic feet, which is close enough to keep most breeds of chicken happy!

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Chicken Feeder

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You will need:

  • 5 gallon bucket (lid is optional)
  • Nuts and bolts
  • Plastic saucer with vertical sides (14″ seems good)

Get the tutorial Here

Chicken Waterer

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  • Five gallon plastic bucket
  • Lid with a spigot (or standard lid with a rubber seal will work too)
  • Flat rubber plumbing washers
  • Nuts and bolts
  • Tiny rubber gaskets
  • 14″ plant pot saucer

Get the tutorial Here

Looking for more ideas? Check out this great book by Bill Keene.

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