Easy chicken coop plans can make the difference between successfully making a secure coop and wasting more of your precious budget. In today's shops there is a wide variety of eggs available, free range and battery are the obvious two but which is the best for your family and your budget? That leads to the big questions, do you keep your family budget down by buying eggs that are produced at the expense chicken's health, and therefore the egg's health, or or do you seek an alternative way to obtain fresh eggs that you know the entire history of? And just how fresh are shop eggs anyway? Any guesses on how long those eggs have been travelling to reach you?

It has never been so easy to build your own chicken coop and keep chickens in your own backyard. Just imagine tucking into your lunch knowing that the eggs were laid that morning by happy chickens who are now clucking and pecking happily at the food you gave them this morning and acting just as nature intended. Can't get much fresher than that can you?

So just how should you go about reaching this ideal situation though? The whole point of building your own chicken coop is to keep happy healthy chickens and also to save yourself money. Using complicated or badly thought out plans can cost you a lot more than buying your eggs at the supermarket the old fashioned way. Using hard to follow plans with limited instructions will, unless you are an accomplished carpenter, result in either an insecure coop and the loss of your precious chickens or the creation of a wooden cage that no chicken will feel comfortable in to lay eggs and could affect their health. So the first step before anything else is to find plans that you find clear and easy to follow. With the right plans you will be eating that home made food with the very freshest of eggs very quickly and safe in the knowledge that you are doing the very best for your family whilst saving money week after week.