Articles by ailurophile23

Fate has a way of changing your path when you least expect it and such was the case for me in 2012. In November I moved to a new home for the second time that year and found myself without chickens. I missed them quite a bit and by March of 2013 I was scanning Craigslist for chickens - any...

Coop #1 - My first stationary coop was built in 2010 from a former horse shoeing stocks that the horses HATED. There were four 6"x6" posts cemented into the ground in something close to a rectangle and then a fifth 6"x6" post set slightly off-center at the front (can't really see it in the...

June 12, 2012 update - Got some bad news - turns out my marriage is over and I will be leaving the lovely farm and new barn discussed below. But I thought I would leave some of the details below on this page in case anyone might find the ideas useful. Guess it's an opportunity to start a new...