The Brooder
Well hot diggity-dog! With 35 chicks hatched and many more hatching every day, I decided to make them a new 2 x 4 feet brooder that could accomodate the cozy lamp brooder (21" x 21") I have.
This is probably the third brooder I've built and by far the largest. I built it...
The Chikken Runs
We decided on two runs- one would be for Splash & Lavender, while the other would be for Buff colored chicks.
--- Uh- oh WAIT A SECOND. As of May 26th, 2010, we now have added a third run. Ideally, I had planned to keep my husband in that one, but after realizing it lacked...
The Hen House!
The concept of "cottages" was the basis for the three houses. We ended up making the house a bit more rectangle to go along with the run which was built first. It is a 4 foot x 8 foot insulated house with easy wash vinyl flooring. We have approx. 14 nest boxes inside it.
Here...
The Rooster House
Our cockhouse was a Craigslist find from someone letting go an old kid's playhouse for a steal. I had planned to build another cottage from scratch but couldn't pass up the price. We modified the house a bit: we added insulation, redid the windows with plexiglass instead of...
The Chicken Village
Welcome to my coop page, my name is Elana. After a year of convincing, plotting and throwing staplers at him, I was finally able to persuade my husband to go along with a backyard menagerie of flockers. I came up with a cottage-style concept with several houses &...