Articles by Knittycat

I've been wanting to hatch eggs since I first thought about getting chickens. I did my research on BYC and discovered that the least expensive and most common 'bators (the hova-bators) were unreliable. You get what you pay for. The nicer incubators were out of my price range (I really really...

Chicken Wish List Gotta hatch 'em all So I'm new to raising chickens. My coop is small and my egg production will exceed my needs. I still want more! I've already got my next coop planned out and I'm in the scrounging stages. I can't spend a lot, so I'm using waste lumber when I can find...

Scrap lumber chicken coop Ever since I was a kid playing poker with my best friend on the roof of her chicken coop, I've wanted to raise chickens. Unfortunetly, my mom didn't. And when I grew up, I lived in a series of appartments. No love for the chickens there. I moved to Texas and...