Articles by robincramer

I decided I wanted chickens in July so we built our coop. It is in the coop pages: Rockin' Chick Hotel. I bought 6 three month old Barred Rocks. This is Sylvie, and chicken butts the six Barred Rocks are all named after old second generation aunts. . More chicken butts and...

The finished coop all painted up. Back of the coop showing water and feed tubes, egg box to left so can reach in from the outside. Side view of their little habit area. Inside view with windows open, we have feed bag art on the back wall and their perch is down low. I brought...

Update: October 30, 2013 My new kids are growing up and should start laying at any time now. We added on to the coop itself and it is now big enough for old and new. The transition went well, we had made a new section of run that we closed off and had the brooder/coop in it. They got to look...