Chicken Coop Educational Poultry Science Habitat with Free K–12 Poultry Science & Chicken Husbandry Curriculum PDF Digital Download🐔

Transform everyday chicken care into a hands-on agricultural learning experience with this educational chicken coop, designed to support poultry science, animal science, agriculture, life science, STEM, and Career & Technical Education (CTE).

Measuring approximately 192 cm L x 50 cm W x 101 cm H (approximately 6.3' L x 1.64' W x 3.31' H), this coop has an approximate footprint of 10.3 square feet. It provides families with a dedicated poultry housing environment where students can observe chickens, participate in age-appropriate daily care, collect data, study animal behavior, and develop practical animal-husbandry skills.

Free K–12 Curriculum PDF Digital Download Included

Every qualifying chicken coop purchase from Heritage Homeschool Supplies includes our Raising Careers: K–12 Poultry Science & Chicken Husbandry Curriculum Guide as a free PDF digital download at no additional cost.

The curriculum guide is a digital PDF and is not a physical book. Families can download the PDF to a computer, tablet, or other compatible device and may print pages for their own educational use.

This comprehensive 18-week educational guide helps families turn their chicken coop and daily flock-care routines into an active K–12 learning environment.

The curriculum includes instruction and activities for:

K–2 – Poultry Explorers
Chicken needs, life cycles, body parts, breeds, behavior, egg science, counting, observation, responsibility, and introductory animal care.

Grades 3–5 – Poultry Keepers
Chicken breeds, anatomy, embryology, housing, nutrition, egg science, measurement, daily flock care, recordkeeping, graphs, and agricultural food systems.

Grades 6–8 – Poultry Investigators
Animal systems, nutrition, poultry behavior, welfare, biosecurity, genetics, environmental management, egg production, agricultural engineering, and data analysis.

Grades 9–12 – Poultry Science & CTE
Advanced poultry management, Animal Systems, nutrition, housing, biosecurity, flock health, genetics, production records, agricultural engineering, poultry economics, agribusiness, and agricultural career exploration.

High-school students can complete the program with a Poultry Science/Animal Systems CTE capstone project incorporating flock management, housing analysis, production records, economics, and technical reporting.

No Additional Curriculum Purchase Required

The included curriculum connects families directly to carefully selected free educational resources, including materials from:

• University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension
• Arkansas Youth Poultry Programs
• National Agriculture in the Classroom
• Free poultry, egg science, embryology, animal science, and agriculture educational resources

The PDF contains clickable links that take families directly to the free educational lessons and resources used throughout the curriculum.

Families are not required to purchase a textbook, paid curriculum, subscription, or membership to use the curriculum guide.

A Real Hands-On Poultry Science Laboratory

Students can use their chicken coop and flock to investigate:

• Chicken breeds and characteristics
• Poultry anatomy
• Chicken life cycles
• Embryology
• Egg anatomy and egg science
• Poultry housing and coop design
• Chicken behavior
• Animal welfare
• Nutrition and feeding
• Water requirements and daily flock care
• Sanitation and biosecurity
• Poultry health observation
• Egg production and recordkeeping
• Genetics and inherited traits
• Environmental and seasonal management
• Predator protection
• Agricultural engineering
• Food systems and sustainability
• Poultry careers
• Agribusiness and production economics

Students aren't simply learning about poultry science—they are observing, caring for, measuring, recording, analyzing, and making responsible management decisions involving a real agricultural animal system.

Students can maintain daily flock-care records, track feed and water, count and graph egg production, observe chicken behavior, evaluate housing conditions, study weather effects, calculate expenses, and build a Poultry Science Portfolio throughout the program.

Chicken Coop Size

• Overall dimensions: approximately 192 cm L x 50 cm W x 101 cm H
• Approximately 75.6" L x 19.7" W x 39.8" H
• Approximately 6.3' L x 1.64' W x 3.31' H
• Approximate footprint: 10.3 sq. ft.
• Designed for poultry housing and hands-on chicken husbandry studies

Arkansas EFA / CTE Information

Current Arkansas EFA purchasing guidance lists a Chicken Coop (50 sq. ft.) with a $300.00 recommended amount within the Career & Technical Education (CTE) category.

This chicken coop:

• Has an approximate footprint of 10.3 sq. ft.
• Is below the 50 sq. ft. chicken coop guidance
• Is priced at $300.00
• Is designed to support Poultry Science, Animal Science, Agriculture, STEM, Life Science, and CTE instruction
• Includes the Raising Careers: K–12 Poultry Science & Chicken Husbandry Curriculum Guide as a free PDF digital download

ADE has also communicated directly to participating EFA families that only one chicken coop per household will be approved.

Arkansas EFA families should verify that their household has not previously received an EFA-funded chicken coop before submitting their purchase.

Important Arkansas EFA Notice

Arkansas EFA's published dollar amounts are recommended amounts and do not guarantee approval. Purchases must meet applicable EFA requirements and be considered ordinary and necessary for the student's educational program. Additional documentation or preapproval may be required.

Heritage Homeschool Supplies cannot guarantee EFA approval. Final eligibility and approval decisions are made by the Arkansas Department of Education/EFA program.

What's Included

• 1 x Educational Chicken Coop
• Coop components and hardware as provided by the manufacturer
• Assembly instructions as provided by the manufacturer
• Raising Careers: K–12 Poultry Science & Chicken Husbandry Curriculum Guide – FREE PDF DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Important: The Raising Careers curriculum is provided digitally as a downloadable PDF. No physical curriculum book will be shipped.

Give Them More Than a Chicken Coop. Give Them a Classroom.

From a young student learning what a chicken needs to stay healthy to a high-school learner analyzing poultry production and completing an Animal Systems project, a chicken coop can become a living agricultural classroom.

One coop. Multiple grade levels. Years of hands-on learning.