Friday, November 9, 2012

Chicken Coop or better yet Fowls’ Castles

Chickens are like us human that needs cover over our heads. Therefore chicken coops are made to protect not only the chickens but also their eggs. Every creature needs such protection especially domesticated pets. We even sometimes pamper our pets. We make luxurious chicken coops just for our precious fowls, especially if these fowls are with breed and for cock derbies.

 

                Chicken coops in the olden days are simple made with pieces of woods just like crates, just for these fowls lay and sleep likewise laid their eggs with layers of hays for the soft bed for the eggs. Some are made with bamboo baskets and hanged at the walls of the barn, some are also made of woods and arrange on the yard in a tent-like form. But some make their chicken coops luxurious in the sense that they are made fashionable, some would even put air conditions inside the coop, just for their chickens to be comfortable inside their coops during hot weathers. Some painted them according to their likes in an attracting way or odd way. Well, we cannot do anything about it, it is their way of expressing how much they take care and value their chickens.

 

                People with chicken coops are in the suburbs or in the provinces, because there they can just have it in barns or in their yards. In the provinces, their properties are spacious not congested with buildings and not polluted not like in the city, where some states or cities, chicken coops are not allowed even though they are within the property, but in the suburbs or provinces, which have spacious and wide surroundings which it can cater their domesticated fowls and some would even breed for business and some would only have these chickens for their consumptions. In the country like area, chicken coops are a familiar site in the yards.

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                With our trend of lifestyles, people tend to create their own designs of chicken coops. It would be from simple to complicated; fashionable to being odd; these would only be depending on the lifestyle of the owner and perception of how they take care of their domesticated fowls. Likewise with the technology we have today, some chicken coops are high technology. People would treat their chickens like their family members, especially if children are the one’s taking care of these fowls. Moreover, people would rear chickens just for their consumption for occasions or just for a day’s meal.

 

                Now the “coop” word is sometimes included in our language especially in idioms. Example is the phrase” flew the coop” means someone who has fled before being sent to jail ("The police had a warrant for his arrest, so he flew the coop!").  Good for the chickens they have their own coops, not like the beggars or the bums they don’t have any but just the streets. So, chicken coops are very essential for chickens in our backyards or in barns.