• Created on 1/10/12 by BYC Project Manager

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• Created on 1/10/12 by Nifty-Chicken

  How To Hatch Chicken Eggs Related tutorials: How-To #2: The First 60 Days   General Hints  First things first - eggs should hatch in 21 days, give or take couple, after the hen has begun to "set" or incubate them.   Before putting your eggs into an incubator, plug it in and make sure the temp is steady at 99.5 degrees. I use a thermometer and a hygrometer (which measures humidity) in my incubator. Hygrometers can be purchased quite cheaply at a cigar shop, Radio Shack and I believe even Walmart. You want 50% humidity for day 1-18, then 70-80% for the... read more

• Created on 1/10/12 by BYC Project Manager

          Coop & Run - Design, Construction & Maintenance forum section   Jarhead's Coop GwenDellAnno's Coop kycklingar's 4x10 Tractor BirdsinBethel's... read more

• Created on 11/7/11 by baldessariclan

WICHITA "CABIN COOP"                     Update, spring 2013:   We have recieved a lot of requests for formal drawings / plans to build this coop.  Note that I didn’t have anything like this when I first built it (see original narrative below).  However, I recently used the Google "SketchUp” drafting program (available free off the web) to create a couple detailed 3D computer models of this coop.  I also developed a building material list and accompanying writeup with general build guidelines and recommendations.     basic... read more

• Created on 8/5/10 by oandrea

Click on our images for a larger view Approx. Cost of Construction- $300 Featured in the "Raising Chickens for Dummies" Book by Rob Ludlow   Hen House  Our Hens   Read our tutorial on how to make this bag...   We are so excited to have this gorgeous coop for our little girls!  When we finally decided to take the plunge and get some pullets for our family we search high and low and researched coops for several months. The one type that stood out to... read more

• Created on 5/15/11 by LittleFeat

  ~THE FEATHER FACTORY~  The summer of 2009 I decided to start on a new hobby and have some hens as "pets with perks"! To prevent overwhelming my neighbors and my ability, I ordered 5 day-old chicks from My Pet Chicken. I selected one each: Rhode Island Red (Amber), Black Australorp (Lilith), Silver Laced Wyandotte (Wynnie), Buff Orpington (Maisie), and an Easter Egger (Frisbee). The chicks were hatched on August 17 and my adventure began at the local post office two days later. I set them up in a crate in my garage and my husband and I started on the construction of... read more

• Created on 7/7/11 by GopherBoyFarms

This is where it all began....from a garage we tore down for materials    Preasure treated wood on cinder blocks (all from garage tear down) made the floor 8X12      Raising the fist wall (5 foot walls)   2nd Wall (wall w/4 windows)  Back wall (2 windows)   And the man that made it all happen!! GopherBoy aka Lance...and the first roof truss(sp) with 3 windows and a nice screened vent The roof is a gambrel roof and is 3foot 6 inchX 3foot 6 inch     It's never good when GopherBoy comes to work for the... read more

• Created on 9/6/10 by todtrac

My Mid-Life Crisis Coop   My wife says that most men going through a mid-life crisis get themselves either a new car or a mistress -- but lucky for her I got into chickens instead! Here is my story . . .   It was Easter 2010 and my wife insisted on getting our 10 year old daughter an incubator. I was originally against the whole idea, but she felt it would be a great family project. The idea was to get eggs, hatch them out and raise them just long enough until they were ready for auction. Done!       What happened next, however, is --- I got involved! And, after... read more