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CU STUDENT WORKS TO BUILD A BETTER CHICKEN COOP Architecture major designs easy-to-clean, inexpensive home for chickens By Melanie Asmar, Colorado Daily The black chicken coop on display inside the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is sleek, like a chicken-house-of-the-future. The air...

...or goats, heifers, sheep, pigs, water buffalo, rabbits.... I got a catalog from Heifer International today, and think it's such a cool idea. Their plan is to help families all over the world to become self-reliant by donating animals to them, with the agreement that each family will in turn...

I'm a Plano resident and have been corresponding with the city council here for a few months trying to get the ordinances changed to allow backyard chickens. Now a farmer from Poetry, Texas (about an hour east of Dallas, I believe) who sells hens in Dallas where it's legal is trying to help...

Here's an example. The idea is that they protect the back of a hen when a rooster has mounted her, to prevent feather loss and injury. Does anybody actually use these?

Hope I put this in the right topic. Yesterday on National Public Radio's show "Think" in the afternoon, Dallas chicken owners Leslie Halleck and Sarah Perry were interviewed for a full hour. Leslie Halleck is the general manager of North Haven Gardens in Dallas, and Sarah Perry is a...

Does anybody else watch Project Runway? It's a guilty pleasure of mine. Season 6 is underway, and in the second episode a contestant called Malvin was assigned the task of creating a maternity outfit, and he decided to go really conceptual with it and try and evoke the metaphor of a chicken...

I'm pretty ignorant about silkies, so please don't laugh. Most of the ones I've seen don't seem to have a lot of feathers on their heads when they're small, but by the time they reach adulthood their heads have basically turned into puffballs. Don't they have a hard time seeing? Do people...

(Preface: I live in the suburbs) I don't have chickens yet, but I have a concern about getting them-- my next door neighbor's incredibly yappy weiner dog. I share a backyard fence with only one house, but unfortunately that house has a couple of dogs-- the dachshund and one other, not sure of...

So we're trying to get backyard chickens legalized in the town where I live. I was prepared for objections about the potential noise of it, the smell, possibly carrying disease, etc. What I wasn't prepared for, however, was the snobbery : People in Plano don't want to see, hear, or smell farm...

Mabrie Jackson, a city council member for Plano, TX, wrote a blog post yesterday discussing how many requests she has received from people who want to keep backyard chickens in Plano-- it's currently illegal here. She expresses some concerns, mainly about the disease factor and what to do if...

I believe firmly in doing my homework on something before jumping into it. So even though I don't have chickens yet, I have books about them all over the house....my boyfriend made fun of me this morning because I have a copy of The Complete Chicken next to the bed! It's my bedtime reading...

....because one person complained. City to North Haven Gardens: No chicks 11:44 AM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 Mariana Greene/Gardening Editor North Haven Gardens, which earlier this month took the unusual step of adding henkeeping supplies, housing and even juvenile hens to its gardening and...

Okay, so bantams confuse me. I was thinking about getting a couple along with my regular flock, but Ideal only sells them as straight run. This worries me because I don't want any male chickens. My assumptions are that male bantams will: a) crow, b) mate with females, and c) (obviously)...

Hey all, I'm new to the chicken thing in general and am trying to learn all I can before starting my own (very small) flock. Videos, books, web sites....pouring over all of them. And I have tentatively reached a conclusion about what I want to get-- the following day-old chicks: 1 Easter Egg...

Hey all, I'm curious about what you discovered in the process of turning eggs into egg-laying chickens, and any step along the way, that was a surprise to you and that you wish you'd known from the outset-- what mistakes you made that you might have avoided if you'd had better information. If...

Hey everybody, My boyfriend and I moved to Plano (directly north of Dallas, TX) in March of this year, to a house of our own with a lovely backyard where we've started a garden. We decided that keeping chickens our backyard as well would be a great idea, but shortly after beginning my research...