Five Whys For The Location Of Your Chicken House.

Your chicken house is really ready to build once you have everything else in place – plans, materials and tools. But are you building in the right location. It’s like real estate, padre, your chicken house’s success depends on location, location, location. You have to consider these five features as you pick out your location.

1 – Light: Your chicken house needs to be situated to maximize the available light. The sun should be able to get in through the windows to warm your chickens and their dwelling. It takes 14 hours of light each day to make chicken healthy enough to lay eggs right.

2 – You want to keep out nature’s elements like rains or flooding by slightly elevating the structure. You would need some shelter from high winds at this location as well. When selecting a location for your chicken house take into account the worst weather conditions for your locale. Mother Nature could throw her worst at you but ensure that your chickens are still completely protected.

3 – Protection From Predators: In addition to building a strong, predator-proof chicken house and run, you can minimize the danger from predators by building near your home. This will allow you to easily keep an eye on your chicken flock. If you live on a farm, locating your coop near large grazing animals will also help deter predators.

4 – You can’t keep your eyes well on your chickens if they are far from you, so locate the poultry close by. Chickens are fairly good pests, so your kids won?t much mind having them around. Why, the chickens could actually help rid your grass of annoying bug if you let them range freely.

5 – Make room so that when you one day want chicken run and expansion, you have it. Six to ten square feet per chicken is recommended. Allow room for increase should the day come when you desire to increase your flock.

Chicken coop plans provide excellent blueprints for the construction of your chickens’ new home. Your chickens will certainly benefit from the time and effort you commit to selecting the appropriate location for their pen, and you will too.

Recycled Metal Garden Art – Eco-Art For Your Backyard

Enthusiastic gardeners are likely to be very green folk. They like digging in the dirt, recycling and composting, and effortlessly integrate other people’s cast-offs into their outdoor decor. When shopping for exciting pieces to decorate their yards, recycled metal garden art may be a popular choice.

The eco-artists creating recycled metal garden are very creative and talented. What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these talented artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes amazing mechanical sculptures of giraffes, elephants and robots from recycled automobile and plumbing parts. He gets junk transmission and engine parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing fixtures and pipes he is able to create fantastic, moving creatures.

Discarded oil tanks and drums are quite frequently used to make metal yard decor. Coloured oil tanks that once supplied fuel to cottagers are cut down into brightly colored critters, including dogs with bones, dancing sheep or moose, lurking alligators and climbing frogs. For something a little different you can even add a diva or a devil!

In Haiti an ever growing crafts community is making delightful metal wall art from flattened drums previously used to carry oil or other products. After removing the ends these drums are flattened and next carved manually into exotic works of art. Using only simple tools like hammers and chisels, the artists create elaborate, creative designs out of the steel. Steel drum art from Haiti is renowned world-wide and increasing in popularity. Inside the house or in the garden, it makes a striking piece of wall art.Saving bicycles from untimely graves a new breed of eco-artists are choosing recycled bikes parts to produce their art. Bike art is becoming so trendy it is a genre of its own. With gears and wheels, nuts and bolts, spokes and bars, a bike may be the ideal raw material for recycled metal art.

A large part of the appeal of recycled metal yard art may be the weathered and often rusted look of the various pieces. Rusted metal has a earthy, natural look and blends with the garden rather than making a loud statement. That is why many gardeners seek out pre-rusted metal art.

The talent of artists working with recycled metal always amazes me. Add some recycled metal art to your yard and add instant character and charm.