Recent content by Brooke 1

Thanks everyone! Dogfish, what I did was bought 450 board feet of random width, random length four quarter ( 1 inch ), green Poplar. I also bought 100 board feet of dried Poplar for the floor and trim, from the same lumber mill and framing lumber from Lowes. I bought, and just finished cutting...

We are getting very excited now! My wife took these pictures as I was just getting started today after work. I got the roof trimmed up and tar paper on it and got my metal roofing bought but have to wait till they can get it pulled at the lumber yard. It should only be a few days till we can...

Thanks for the comments. The coop is six feet by ten feet. I got the idea from a shed and barn builder from up the road. They had one like it that was six by eight feet for $1300.00 and we just didn’t want to spend that kind of money on a coop, so I decided to build one similar to it. I went to...

Here are pics of our coop this morning. I spent a better part of the day working on it and hope to take more pics in the morning. Brooke

I am using the deep litter method and I never gave it a thought about the door being high enough to contain the litter. Thank you very much for that reminder. I’m getting ready to go get started on the coop and that is one of the things I hope to get done today. Have a good day! Brooke

We started to build our coop this week and things are going well. I plan on adding pictures tomorrow of the progress. I do have a question about how big I need to make the chicken door out to the yard. Could anyone help me out with this? We are going to have standard layers. Thank you, Brooke

We started to build our coop this week and things are going well. I plan on adding pictures tomorrow of the progress. I do have a question about how big I need to make the chicken door out to the yard. Could anyone help me out with this? We are going to have standard layers. Thank you, Brooke

I appreciate all the great and humorous advice. We have talked about it some more and have another question. We are looking at getting Red Star Hens and Rhode Island Red Hens, probably five of each. On my Pet Chicken, they are calling these dual purpose birds. I am assuming that this means they...

We have decided to get chickens. Working on designing a coop, talking to other chicken “farmers” and deciding what kind of chickens we want base on egg production, and temperament of the birds and reading the internet and Raising Chickens for Dummies. However, during dinner this evening, my wife...