Articles by cfree5

We received 30 chickens from Murray McMurray Hatchery on 3/7/15 I had build a nice brooder and we were all ready... thought 8 weeks was plenty of time to build the coop right? Well it snowed right after the chicks arrived so I lost maybe 2 weeks & was down to 6! Needless to day one lesson I...

Below you will see how I build my 4x8 chicken brooder. It started with 30 hens on order & some wood :) I've never really built anything before but am somewhat handy.... so far so good. A little paint... I wanted to see what it was going to look like. Traditional "Barn Red" & White trim...