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Currently getting the 3 nesting boxes ready for Yall chickens. I have a bale of straw, lavender and newspaper. I am lining the box with newspaper or paper grocery bags, straw and lavender. I have a small shelf in front of the boxes and a roosting pole inches from the shelf. The main roosting...

From Los Alamos - Spent the day with yall chickens, they were good girls for the most part. Got the bedroom cleaned up after those juvenile delinquents peck through the screen door broke into my bedroom, found the bag of mealworms, roosted on the furniture and pooped all over the place...

I got vinyl corrugated roofing panels, $3 ea. Habitat is a hardware thrift store, they have many needed items, not just lumber. Door and window hinges, poles for fencing, paint, nails and screws. Time is valuable, with a full time, plus overtime job, house and yard to take care of and outside...

Thanks for the welcome everyone. Yall chickens did the free range /dust bath /happy dance this afternoon. I was outside watching them as I rigged up my new and fortified anti-chicken security screen door, it's a bit redneck ghetto, ok, it's a lot ghetto, the old screen door with chicken wire...

Starting out on this backyard chicken thing. Bought 10 chicks, 2 died within 48 hours, 1 turned out to be a rooster, big no no in my county. So I have 7 left, wanted to wait till I was fairly certain they were going to survive in my care before naming them. I have named my little flock "Yall...

From Los Alamos, currently building a coop using basically recycled materials and a lot of creativity. I am a novice too, flying by the seat of my pants mostly, but having a good time doing it.

I am the queen of re-cycling, from garden beds to patio brick, if I can get it used for free or very little that is the way I go. Not that I can't buy everything retail, I just like to see how cheaply I can make things for, so I can teach others how to get what they need without going broke.So...

I started sitting with my chicks in the evening hand feeding them little bits of food, they associate whatever my fingers are holding out for them must be very tasty. I started giving them a pan of mixed vegetables and fruits, now they must have their salad and their special treat time...

I spend a bit of time in the evenings sitting on the stairs outside my bedroom and hand-feeding my chickens, dried mealworms, raisins and corn on the cob. A winning trifecta. They have become a pack of Juvenal delinquents brazenly pecking at my bedroom door for their treats. I hear them...