Articles by CollieFeathers

This is the first chicken coop I've ever made. The bottom run is about 6x6 feet square. The challenge was to not spend anything on materials except for screws, hardware cloth, hinges and latches. We just had a workshop built so I used some of the leftover pine wood (1.5" wide strips) for the...

This small coop was purchased 6 years ago at the beginning of my chicken keeping adventures. It houses two to three standard size Wyandotte chickens, which is enough to keep two people in more eggs than we can eat. This coop is very well designed. You can access it all, cleaning it is easy...

Gleet is a fungal infection in chickens that causes a messy vent area with white yucky looking stuff and sticky feathers around their butts. I'm sure it's not fun for the chickens and ALL my hens had it pretty bad. Feeling it had to be related to something wrong with their nutrition, I let them...