upcycled

I've learned so much here, I figure its time I share something in case it helps someone else. So FWIW here you go.... I decided to build a run just until winter but being temporary I didn't want to spend money. The small city backyard has a decent slope running diagonally from the back...

Years ago, I helped my uncle put together a wooden swingset for my aunt. It was a place to sit together, relax and laugh. We enjoyed it for over a decade until time and the elements took their toll and the thinner boards on the seats began to rot and crack. My aunt and uncle aren't with us...

In the first year of our marriage, Dear Husband received this hen-scratch conception in a love letter that proposed we build a coop sometime next year. He got it done much sooner than I had anticipated! Our house and property (home built in 1949) included two garden sheds that were used as...

This is a story of two kids that met and fell love while working on a farm in Northern MA and ended up with 2 kids and an unloved swingset. The swingset was purchased second hand. It had seen lots of kids playing on its slides, swinging on its swings, and had been moved around the yard more...

July 13, 2014: All finished!!! I attached chicken wire to the triangles in the enclosure roof and worked on the feeding station (to the right of the coop in the first pic). You can get to the food and water from the front without having to open a door; the chicken wire goes around behind the top...

Step 1 - start with a playhouse Below are some details of the construction of our chicken stuff The tools we used.... J clips (for rabbit cages) worked great to put the cage part together. Used a soldering Iron to cut off plastic buckets for water and feed bases - also to quickly...

So after a few years without chickens in my life I decided it was time to get back into the chicken business and show my 6 and 8 year old boys a little about self sufficiency. I had to decided what to make the coop out of when inspiration struck like lighting. I present the Swing Set Chicken...