Articles by Gargoyle

We just have 5 chickens, and it seems most commercially available heated water dishes are larger and more expensive than I'd like. With the cold Chicago winter coming up, I needed to come up with something. I found a 1 quart heated pet bowl from Walmart.com for $13.47 ($16.38 including tax and...

My five chooks have a nice large coop and secure run, but we like to take them to our overgrown vegetable garden so they can play around and gorge themselves on veggies and bugs. However, it's about 200 feet, and the young rooster gets worried if I carry them one or two at a time... so, I needed...

Fowlies Bregère Our original coop and run was built on an existing fenced in 8' x 20' concrete slab, an old dog kennel. It was rather haphazard, built mostly from scavenged and scrap materials. The chained link is wrapped with galvanized sheet metal for the lower two feet, and then hardware...

We started with three young Columbian Wyandottes in 2010; sadly, after a year a raccoon broke in and killed them. We turned the coop and run into a fortress, and after various adventures we now have five, two laying hens and three young'uns. We live an hour outside Chicago. Our chickens posed...

We live near Brewster Creek, and our young rooster is named Brooster, so our little flock is Broosters Clique. Our chickens all came from Primrose Farm, an educational farm museum run by the city of St. Charles, Illinois. It is set up so that visitors can learn what farm life was like in the...