How To Maintain Your Chickens Coops

It is important to keep your chicken coop in good condition, and keep a good eye on it and that way, it will last for years especially if it is a wooden one. It is important perhaps, if you can, to buy one as a tanalised timber and that will withstand the elements much better than perhaps a cheaper version. But it is important that you, perhaps, treat them with Cuprinol before the wet weather and I would suggest then, the chickens, it's not always possible to keep the chickens away from them for a day or two from the Cuprinol.

They will be on the outside, anyway. But just to make sure that they are not breathing any fumes, you would just give a coat, a weather proofing coat all over. The other thing that is important is to keep an eye on the wire.

Make sure that no animals try to force their way in probably down the bottom, they might try to pull the wire away from the wood. Every day, just walk around your chicken coop, anyway, just to make sure that none was trying to get in when you weren't looking. And the other thing I would suggest also, though, is if possible, perhaps put the whole frame on, especially in the winter, not so much in the summer, but perhaps you might like to put it on a hard base of some sort even if it is just along lined something, even if it is just a bit of plastic, to just stop the wet getting up into the wood because you can see here, this wood here has gotten quite wet and with another few months of winter weather, that's going to stop to affect the wood.

So, having given it a coat of Cuprinol perhaps only after once your hut is perhaps a year or more, you wouldn't need to do it beforehand. I would certainly suggest putting that either onto hard sounding area or as I say, just some plastic underneath just to stop the damp coming up from the ground underneath. And then, of course, check that your props are all working properly and the screws are in place.

It can't drop down during the day and shut them at night, so they can't get back to bed, and that your ladder is in good condition, so just keep a really good eye on it. And of course, then, you are going to be checking for mites as well in the wood, and give it a good scrub. But I would say, don't give it a good spray clean as it were in the winter, beginning of the winter, and make it all damp inside because chickens are very prone to respiratory diseases, and you certainly don't want to find that they have got to go to bed in the evening and the inside of your hut is still damp from the way you have cleaned it out in the day.

So, I would suggest, in the winter, that you don't use any wet products inside your hut unless you know that you can really get them really nice and dry before they go to bed. And that's how to maintain chicken coops.
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