Have you ever planned a brief vacation, only to have to cancel it because there was no one to babysit your beloved chickens? Maybe you don’t have a full size run to keep them in and they would kill each other staying locked up in the prefabricated house they sleep in at night. No matter your...
Introduction
I remember a thread where someone wanted to put an addition to the Sentinel coop, so here's how I did mine.
Back in 2021, when we got our second batch of chicks, we purchased a Producer's Pride Sentinel Coop from Tractor Supply. For $400, it seemed to be well-made and we didn't...
From Sea to Sea:
or, the Chickens’ March to Rule the World
Chickens have played a small but important role in the history of the world for the last few thousand years. They are believed to have been derived from wild junglefowl found in Southeast Asia. Peters et al. (2022) state that the...
Prologue
When I was in my early teens, my family suddenly decided they wanted to get chickens. We had some extra lumber sitting unused in the garage so my father built a cute little chicken coop. It was the exact opposite of every article ever written about good chicken coops here on BYC -...