Sitting here with paper and pencil drawing up my coop to be.
Carpentry and design, I'm not a newbie. Chickens, well that's a different story. Had them when I was too young to remember much other than the rooster kept getting out but usually came back.
Need some basic dimensions for stuff.
My...
I like this. Probably going to use this idea, simple and cheap.
My coop is going to be too far from the house to run electric or water though. Not sure how I can keep the water from freezing in winter. Any ideas on that?
The coop designs are overwhelming. I am getting some good ideas from them and maybe I might try drawing something up that will work on my own. Since I'm a newbie, I really do not know what works best and what doesn't. I have a friend who raises chickens and I they can probably sell me the right...
I'm sort of new to Back Yard Chickens. Actually when I was a small child we did have chickens in our back yard. I didn't do anything with the care and feeding then and do not remember much other than we had a rooster who got out of the coop a lot.
I am now thinking about doing this myself now. I...