Articles by CedarCluck

So as I mentioned in my first post here, I have wanted chickens for close to ten years now, and originally my partner TH said absolutely not. Well we went to this meet with the woman who's listing we found on craigslist, and to pick out our future chickens. The first thing that went through my...

When I started raising chickens, I started with three: a polish and two silver laced wyandottes. I lost one of my two SLW to a hawk however, and it has left me with only one. Her name is Elizabeth, and she acts like a queen. She is a bit skittish, but each day she warms up to people more...

Our coop was once nothing more than a large planter box that my TH had started to build for me. But it had sat in the garage for over a year. So after doing all my research into what chickens need I began to alter it. I built a coop into the back half of the planter . I built walls and then cut...