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I'm calling social services on each of you. How will they get socialized? Won't they miss things like riding the bus to school and prom? How will they ever know what it's like to go to the bathroom in a stall without doors if they don't go to public school? Why keep your kids at home when...

Advice #1 -- Build your coop THEN order chicks. Advice #2 -- Craigslist. Old sheds. Advice #3 -- Craigslist. Old camping trailers.

I can improve this sage advice, sage though it be. Which way does the wind blow? Chickens aren't nearly as smelly as some might think, but neither are they a field of lilacs... so we deliberately put ours to the north and slightly east. Rarely, in the summer does the wind blow toward the...

State law is 6 in NY -- it's not TSC. My local farm store sold me a couple because that's all I wanted and she already knew I had purchased 10 the week before. TSC probably has less of that small town common sense flexibility (big company, big insurance policies, big law suits). It does make...

ours got worse as she got older. we weren't worried till we noticed that she was essentially starving. she'd frantically mash her face into the feed but she wasn't getting enough -- so much smaller than the others. we read a bunch of strategies for correcting it, found none compelling, and...

I gave 23 of our eggs to a friend and schoolteacher who hatched 20 of them! They are purebred RIRs and RIR mutts w/ either brahma, black star, or ? They are all, of course, simply lovely, except for the fact that they are the most uptight, angry, active, boisterous, roostery acting chicks on...

My design is brilliant if I do say so myself (though I'm sure I learned it from this site). Guillitine door so it slides up on the inside, but I have a rope attached so that I can walk in the coop entry (not in the coop itself) and open and close the door w/o getting poopy. If you're talking...

I have a friend who wants to hatch out some eggs for a school project. I, of course, have eggs. Question #1. I have 16 hens and one very busy RIR Roo (if you know what I mean). What are the odds that the eggs I collect are fertilized? I've read that I can't know for sure, short of opening...

So I went to get a metal can w/ plans to build a heater (light bulb cookie tin version) and when I went to by the tin heater I realized that is was just going to be a whole lot easier and essentially the same price to buy one of those massive heated doggie bowls. i'll have to add water a bit...

It's not the chickens bumping it (they do), it's a slow steady drip drip around the seal between the white tank and the red base (it's the 3 1/2 gallon waterer. It got especially bad when I tried to put a floating watering puck in there, but it leaks w/o it. Leaks when hanging so I put it on...

Fumes? Trust me, if their own fumes aren't lethal, nothing is!

How about building a replica of Monticello? How about some thing arts and crafts? Maybe a replica of the Googenheim? Or google "chicken coop" then hit images.

I deliberately refused to keep track. Initial plans to move a shed fell apart (when my mover said the shed would fall apart) and we, of course, already had the chickens. So I had to get to work and so I figured it was just better not to know. I'm a real tightwad and I'm sure I would still be...

Here are some questions you need to ask: How much money do you have? Will you bid out architects? How much money do you have? Do you want the structure to be LEED certified? Are you thinking of a postmodern design? How much money do you have? Chickens are not fussy. Keep them dry. And if...

I agree that aluminum is a good "absorber," but my question (which still remains unanswered) is, do you need to have the tubular chambers (cans or dryer vent). Can't see how that provides any advantage. If it's just about turbulence, you could smash the cans and nail them to the wall. Or cut...

Quote: This is a problem I'd like to solve too, Wayne. Certainly it increases the efficiency if there is some sort of "solar tracker," hand cart or otherwise. I'm just not sure how to do that AND not botch up the piping/chambers/intakes and exhausts that get the air into the coop.

Here's a drawing that lets you see how the air enters and exits the box. They actually do so right next to each other just inside the partially opened window in this design. Because heat rises, as long as the warm exhaust is on top, the bottom will always pull in cooler air from the bottom...

www.builditsolar.com is the best database resource on the web. Excellent plans and such. I only wish the forum were as spectacular as this one -- in fact, it doesn't have one. Look under solar heater, space. It converts solar radiation into heat so, in fact, it DOES work when the sky is...

I'm building one now for my coop. It will hang out the window and we are far enough north that it can be perpendicular to the wall. I just haven't figured out why you need the cans. You can buy that foil backed foam and paint it black. I don't get the advantage of sending the air through the...

There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people. Hey, wait... that doesn't sound quite right. This website is famous for chicken jargon but also famous for tolerating all questions. If you do use the search function, make sure the search deely is set at "title only" and you're...