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Chicken Coop Design Project
By Jordin Tafoya
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Purpose To design an…
› Environmentally Sustainable › Beautiful› Functional› Thoughtful
Chicken coop for a residential backyard
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Background Research White Leghorn Chickens
› Purpose is egg-laying Extra Large Very good quality Lays 4 x per week
› 6-7 lbs.
› Most common egg-laying chickens
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Requirements $0 - $500
Up to150 Square Feet
4-6 Chickens
Max. of 8 ft. elevation
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Understand What are the positive and negative
aspects of raising chickens in a residential environment?
› Chickens are super loud, but you don’t have to buy eggs if you have chickens
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Understand What are key health and safety
features that should be incorporated into a chicken coop?
› Protection from weather, protection from predators like dogs, and space for the chickens.
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Understand What are the essential differences of
designing a chicken coop for a rural, suburban, or urban environment? › Urban is a lot harder for design for,
because there isn’t as much yard space, and there are other people as major threats.
› Rural is the easiest to design for
because you have much more room and privacy.
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Understand How would factors such as location,
weather, traffic patterns, and geography impact the design?
› Because when you design you have to plan for most circumstances, and weather itself is a huge thing to design around.
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Design Idea’s
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Final Design
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Reasons for Choice Simplest
Most sustainable
Meets all requirements
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Prototype The scale was 1 in. : 1 ft.
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Prototype Materials Balsa Wood
Hot glue
Red and white paint
Paintbrush
Chicken wire
X-Acto knife
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Materials Oriented Strand Board
Screws
Paint (Red and White)
4- 1 in. x 8 ft. Wood Beams
4- 1 in. x 2.5 ft. Wood Beams
Chicken Wire
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Refine Make the door bigger Make the outside portion slightly larger
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Resources http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-much-
coop-and-run-space-do-i-need.html
http://www.mypetchicken.com/chicken-breeds/Leghorn-White-B65.aspx
http://egglayingchickens.com/best-egg-laying-chicken-breeds.html
http://www.cacklehatchery.com/whtleghornpage.html