Articles by consdrs

Coop 2009 Imagine that, people who have chickens and have more than one coop… I think it is an airborne phenomenon spread by chicken feathers… There were a few things I wanted to change in my second coop. The first coop was strictly functional and not very pleasing to look at. The second one...

Automatic pop hole opener This is not my own idea. We got the idea from a fellow BYCer. We now have two coops (imagine that) and our first automatic door opener was first installed in February of 09. It has been happily pulling open and pushing closed our fiberglass coop door since then without...

Wow we had no idea what we were getting into. I had a lot more pics of the whole process but had a computer hard drive melt down and lost everything. It took us several weeks of research (on BYC of course!) and we came up with this. This started out as an old playhouse for my kids. It was old...

Well here it is a year later. We had 10 chicks last year in April. This year we got 9 more. Believe me we could have had 20 more if it weren't for.... well IDK. I could have 20 more, easy! Can't blame it on self control, I have none. At the feed store this is how it went ... " I'll have 2 of...