A couple of posts ago, I posted about chicken coop sales and how they can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the seller, but I didn’t really elaborate on this topic.
Today, I will be talking in-depth about people who sell a variety of chicken coops in order to make good money, and hopefully, by the end of this reading, you will have a better idea of how to identify whether this guy is an authentic chicken coop dealer or if he’s just trying to pull a fast one on you.
First of all, let’s take a look at what a chicken coop is, and should be:
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A chicken coop is a place where you will grow your chickens. They will eat here, they will sleep here, and they will lay their eggs here. Others might even hatch inside your coop.
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Proper chicken coops aren’t just makeshift houses built to house your chickens. There has to be some sort of coherence in the design, a sort of intelligent layout that says the chicken coop salesman isn’t just trying to get you to buy his merchandise – he actually genuinely cares that you get the best equipment.
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If you live in a wet area, the chicken coop has to be designed to survive in your weather. If you don’t get a coop that can tough out the harsh winters of upper Nova Scotia, for example, then you’re better off growing your chickens inside an aquarium.
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Above all, a chicken coop should be functional in varying levels.
If you stumble upon somebody selling chicken coops that don’t embody these points, then yes, you are probably being cheated. Get out of the store immediately, and look for a better seller.
Chicken Coop Boot Camp
It’s not easy telling just how functional a chicken coop on display is just by seeing the coop from the outside.
I mean, if that was all that was needed to make good sales, then chicken coop salespeople just need to spiff up the look of their disposable unsold coops and that would already constitute as a sure sale for them.
But coops are more than just that. When you look inside the coop, you have to consider everything that you see.
Is there enough space for the chickens?
Will you be able to clean it out with relatively no trouble? Is there enough ventilation to ensure that your birds are happy?
The oldest lie most chicken coop salesmen would probably do involves chicken coop materials and the white lies that come with it. If you have a cedarwood chicken coop in a region that’s exceptionally tough on the wood, there’s a smaller chance of people buying that.
So what most sellers do is pass the material off as something designed to survive in your current weather, even though it isn’t. This is why most buyers need to constantly check on the make of the chicken coops they look at before buying them.
Function > Form
Sure, your chicken coop might be pretty, but can it play ball?
Well, in a manner of speaking, anyway. Unless you’re a master farmer with years of experience, most infant businesses dealing with chicken coop selling and buying usually just try to get any old thing removed from their shops.
Usually, these coops are nice-looking chicken houses in terms of façade, but if the inside of the coop doesn’t work, well no amount of beauty will fix that. If you can’t find a coop with a decent and logical interior coop set-up available, that’s pretty much a sign that this guy doesn’t know what the hell it is he’s doing.
So once you’re done browsing through his wares, go out of that door and don’t come back. The logical arrangement of the coop’s interior is important, and if your chicken coop salesman can’t get that through his skull, then you’re better off building your own coop from driftwood.
Till next time..
