🛒 Chicken Equipment & Supplies
Choosing the right equipment can make raising backyard chickens easier, cleaner, and more enjoyable. Our buying guides compare popular products, explain what to look for, and help you decide what equipment is worth your money.
Why We Created This Equipment Library
There are hundreds of chicken products on the market, ranging from inexpensive plastic feeders to professional automatic coop systems. While having choices is great, it can also be overwhelming—especially if you're new to raising chickens.
Instead of simply listing products, Backyard Chicken Planner compares equipment based on durability, ease of cleaning, value, practicality, and suitability for different types of backyard flocks.
Whenever possible, we explain why we recommend a product and which situations it works best for.
🧰 Browse Equipment Categories
🐥 Feeders
Compare hanging feeders, treadle feeders, gravity feeders, PVC feeders, and more.
Compare Feeders
💧 Waterers
Find the best gravity waterers, nipple systems, heated waterers, and automatic watering options.
Compare Waterers
🏠 Chicken Coops
Compare prefab coops, DIY kits, portable tractors, and permanent backyard coops.
Compare Chicken Coops
🥚 Nesting Boxes
Find nesting boxes that are easy to clean, durable, and comfortable for laying hens.
Compare Nesting Boxes
🚪 Automatic Coop Doors
Compare battery, flexible-power, smart-camera, and heavy-duty automatic doors for backyard coops.
Compare Automatic Doors →
🐣 New to Backyard Chickens?
If you're just getting started, you don't need to buy everything at once.
In fact, most beginners can successfully start with just a few essential items:
- ✔ Quality feeder
- ✔ Reliable waterer
- ✔ Secure coop
- ✔ Nesting boxes
- ✔ Appropriate chicken feed
- ✔ Grit and oyster shell (when appropriate)
- ✔ Predator-proof fencing
As your flock grows, you can gradually upgrade equipment based on your needs and experience.
⭐ Backyard Chicken Planner Product Score
As we build our equipment guides, we will evaluate products using a consistent rating system. This helps readers compare feeders, waterers, nesting boxes, coop accessories, and other chicken supplies more easily.
Our goal is not to recommend the most expensive product. Our goal is to identify equipment that is practical, durable, easy to use, and worth the money for backyard chicken keepers.
| Rating Category |
What It Means |
| Durability |
How well the product holds up to weather, chickens, cleaning, and daily use. |
| Ease of Use |
How simple it is to fill, clean, move, install, or operate. |
| Beginner Friendliness |
Whether a first-time chicken owner can use it without confusion or extra setup problems. |
| Flock Suitability |
How well it works for different flock sizes and backyard setups. |
| Maintenance |
How much cleaning, adjustment, repair, or replacement it may require over time. |
| Value for Money |
Whether the product provides enough usefulness and reliability for its price. |
Each future product guide may include a score such as:
| Example Product Score |
Rating |
| Durability |
★★★★★ |
| Ease of Use |
★★★★☆ |
| Beginner Friendliness |
★★★★★ |
| Maintenance |
★★★★☆ |
| Value |
★★★★★ |
| Overall Backyard Chicken Planner Score |
94 / 100 |
🤝 A Note About Product Recommendations
Some future equipment guides may include affiliate links. If you purchase through those links, Backyard Chicken Planner may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate relationships do not control our recommendations. Products will be selected based on usefulness, quality, practicality, and value for backyard chicken keepers.
You can read more on our Affiliate Disclosure page.