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Coop Design
Hi there:
I'm assuming that what I have is what you're looking for...I didn't have any designs to go by, but while trying to find something that was visually pleasing, I found a children's playhouse that looked nice...I downsized the floor area, and put in an enclosed run...
Ingredients:
1 or so lb. cooked and shredded chicken (boiled is easiest)
1 can diced green chilies
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 or so cup shredded cheese, as desired
black olives, as desired
5-10 tortillas - corn or flour, as desired (# used depends on tortilla size)
1/2 or so cup red taco...
Please see our NEW Medium Coops page!
Whether you have a small city loft, a suburban backyard, or a rural farm, this friendly guide gives you easy-to-follow and customizable plans for building a backyard chicken coop. You'll get basic construction know-how and key information to design and build a coop that's easy on the eyes and...
There are many reasons to raise chickens in your backyard, but here are a few of the most frequently expressed reasons people raise chickens:
Chickens are easy, inexpensive pets when compared to most other pets.
1 Bag of Layer feed lasts a month for many backyard flocks
They mature much...
Gold Wyandotte Hatching
Remember this guy from day 8 on the candling page?
Well, here's how it all turned out on day 23.
Pipped a nice section
Another angle
Now it starts to really push
It gets a wing out
And finally the head unfolds - whew
Rock 'n roll around the incubator...
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DISEASES
Avian Pox
Bumblefoot Surgery
Bumblefoot in your Flock
Impacted Crop
Marek's Disease...
Ingredients:
6 cups apples
2 tbs flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
6 Tbs flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup quick oats
6 tbs butter softened
Cooking Instructions
Combine Apples 2 tbs flour sugar cinnamon salt in a bowl. Put apple mixture in a greased baking pan 8x8. Mix 6 tbs flour...
Our Coop Story
We are Billy and Bridget, and we have 8 chickens in the making – 2 silver laced wyandottes, 2 light brahmas, 2 red star sex-link, 1 black star sex-link, and one buff cochin.
Here is our henhouse. Bridget, let me do most of the planning. This was my first attempt at building a...
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The Montana Egg Cabin - MTchick
Our coop is now completed. This post has all the photos, in order of most recent to least recent, that I think are worth sharing... that means it has a lot of photos!
Brief synopsis; 7 standard hens, 4'x4' floor plan henhouse (which is a bit small but probably...
Here at Backyard chickens we're not just about work. We all enjoy a good joke.
Why did the Chicken cross the road:
To prove to the deer that it could be done
It wanted to show it was not a chicken.
Because the referee shouted fowl.
Egg Jokes:
It's the evil chicken that lays...
Ingredients:
1 stick margar
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. milk
2 c. quick oats
1/2 c. peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla
5 tbsp cocoa
Cooking Instructions
Measure margarine, sugar, milk and cocoa in sauce pan. Bring to boil while stirring and boil 1 minute. Add oats, peanut butter and vanilla. Mix well. Cool...
Size:Standard and Bantam
Colors:Various (8)Eggs:Bluish, Greenish, or BrownTemperament:Unavailable
First, a note about Ameraucanas vs. Araucanas. Both breeds lay eggs with shells colored various shades of blue, have pea combs, and should have red earlobes. Beyond that few similarities exist in...
Size:Standard and Bantam
Colors:Various (8)Eggs:Bluish, Greenish, or BrownTemperament:Unavailable
First, a note about Ameraucanas vs. Araucanas. Both breeds lay eggs with shells colored various shades of blue, have pea combs, and should have red earlobes. Beyond that few similarities exist in...
Size:Standard
Colors:BlackEggs:BrownTemperament:Tame to shy
Illustration from American Australorp Breeders website
The Australorp was developed in Australia from Orpington stock. It is noted for its egg production - While many sources say they are smaller or trimmer than Orpingtons, ours are...
Size:Bantam
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Colors:VariousEggs:?Temperament:Tame
Belgian Bearded d'Anvers (or Barbu d'Anvers) are true bantams with the standard weight of cocks being 26 oz. and the standard weight of hens being 22 oz. They are very energetic and are usually friendly, although the males...
Size:Bantam
Colors:VariousEggs:?Temperament:Tame & Docile
Frizzles are one of the most popular and desirable bantam chickens. Their "backwards" feathers are give them a striking appearance - they look like they backed up into a hair dryer! Docile and sweet, they make good pets, too...
D'anvers
Frizzles
Nankings
Pekins
Sebrights
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Member Submitted Breed Pages
Bantam Mottled Cochins
Black Tailed Buff Japanese
Sebrights
Silkies
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Size:Bantam
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Colors:ChestnutEggs:Tinted WhiteTemperament:Very Tame
Nankins, sometimes called Nankeens or Nanking are Asian, are believed to have originated in the Nanking region of China. Similarities in their color to a light cloth made in Nanking are given credit for...