Articles by mmatlock

This will be a photo journal, rather than a how-to. We made up the design based on a mishmash of coops on this forum. The main inspiration was The Colorado Coop but we wanted to make it bigger (and so needed to access the inside) and have an attached run. But we loved her ventilation system and...

This is my third time raising chicks, and I just moved from using a dog crate to a stock tank brooder. Though the ability to view and handle chicks from the side was a huge advantage, it was also a mess: hard to keep the shavings inside and very hard to clean, in my opinion. The main con of this...