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Coop Maintenance

As a backyard chicken owner, you know all too well that raising and caring for backyard chickens isn’t always easy. It requires hard work and a willingness to do that work every day. You’re responsible for your chickens, and you don’t get to take a vacation from that responsibility.

Because of this responsibility, choosing to raise one’s own chickens isn’t a decision that should be entered into lightly. Before making that decision, one must decide whether or not they are ready, willing, and able to make a long-term commitment to raising healthy and productive chickens in a clean and safe living environment. Chicken Saloon reviews the best maintenance for your backyard chicken coops.

Coop and run

Providing A High-Quality Chicken Coop

The care and maintenance of backyard chickens and their living environments isn’t always a chore. Far from it. It’s also an adventure, and there are things that chicken owners can do to make that adventure easier, less challenging, rewarding, and even fun.

For example, engaging in regular preventative maintenance, acting with due diligence, and making use of high-quality and effective backyard chicken coop maintenance products and supplies will greatly lessen your workload both now and in the future, leaving you with more time to truly enjoy the extremely rewarding experience of raising backyard chickens, an experience that will, with advance effort and care, provide chicken owners with a variety of tangible and useful benefits for years to come.

Luckily, we live in a time in which there are an abundance of useful, effective, and inexpensive high-quality chicken coop maintenance products available, all of which can be used to maintain Chicken Saloon coops. Such highly rated products include flooring material, healthy food, effective cleaning products, and tools to prevent predators from harming your chickens.

Chicken Coop Floor Covering

One factor that is easy to take for granted but is an important one is the flooring or bedding you choose for your coop. It is an important decision that will affect both you and your chickens. The bedding needs to be comfortable for the chickens yet also durable enough to absorb moisture and the odors of and waste products.

Before and after replacing coop flooring
Credit: Fleming Outdoors

Additionally, the choice of flooring material will determine the amount of and type of maintenance you will need to engage in. Flooring can be made from a variety of materials, and each presents different benefits and challenges. For example, you might choose wood shavings, shredded newspapers, straw, or any other similar product, all of which are low-cost or can be reused from household products.

Deep Litter Method

And another option, one that will require very low maintenance on your part while still providing adequate protection for both your chickens and your coop is called the “deep litter method”. This method will not add to your expenses and will, with a little advance preparation and maintenance, save you a great deal of time in the future.

Backyard Chicken Coop

And most importantly, a chicken owner needs to have a quality coop. In addition to considering which products you will use to make the coop a comfortable and pleasant and clean place for your chickens, it’s also extremely important to take into account which chicken predators live in your area and to do your best to ensure that your chickens are as safe as possible in their coop home. And when it comes to safety and quality, a Chicken Saloon backyard chicken coop that is spacious and well-equipped is a smart choice and will make things much easier for both you and the chickens. These coops are built to keep your chickens safe from predators without any extra effort required on your part.

Chicken Saloon reviews are consistently high, and owners often offer testimonials praising the coops and encouraging other chicken owners to invest in a Chicken Saloon coop of their own.

So, if you’re willing to engage in some preventative maintenance and to ensure that your chickens are safe inside a clean, pleasant, and low-maintenance coop, raising your backyard chickens will require much less work and effort on your part and you will be able to enjoy the adventure and the benefits of chicken ownership for many years to come.

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Ranch

Large and intelligently designed, the Ranch includes a twelve-foot long run and a pull-rod door to enclose your chickens without crawling inside the coop. 

$1,299.00 $1,199
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  • Chickens

    8-15

  • Nests

    6

  • Run

    143"

Schoolhouse

Reminiscent of yesterday’s schoolhouses, your chickens can focus on laying eggs in a striking red and white, windowed, larger than average coop, or roost in the run at recess.

$875.00 $675
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    8-12

  • Nests

    3

  • Run

    60"