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I still need to make th eegg-spaces and put windows on, but here is where we are at with the coop. I need to get busy with attaching windows and the laying boxes since the front of the coop was covered with paw prints (I suspect from the neighbour's Jack Russel) this morning. I wonder if I can...

I just got an offer of an old cap off a Ranger (small, but chicken sized). I don't know whether to incorporate it as a canopy in the run I am currently working on, or use it as a roof for the phase 2 coop. Inspire me. Show me what you've got.

OK, so I badly overbuilt our coop, and it may be the end of me getting it to where it goes. The following story is cross-posted from a gardening forum I frequent ( http://forums.delphiforums.com/Sproutoff ) : Came home from work to a light rain and hooked the trailer up to the Astro Van. Backed...

The Chicken coop is coming along s-l-o-w-l-y... I lost night to an amazing presentation of "High School Musical" as presented by DD's middle school, and will lose tongiht to a guy who wants to buy my car (YAY!!) so I can't really complain, but those dang birds keep eating and growing, and I have...

So the "Mr. Turtle Brooder" in the basement has been a fine home for our chicks so far. However, the last couple of days, they have taken to flying out of my hand and down into thebrooder when they have had enough fun for one visit. I fear that eventually, and not too far distant, they will...

Some folks on here have done an amazing job of painting their coops. Some haven't painted at all. Some have painted all surfaces, inside and out. Some have only painted the outside. I am almost finished framing th ecoop, and its time to look at plywood. Before I do that, it would be easier to...

Our chicks are really doing well down in the Mr. Turtle brooder, but a handful of them (maybe half) have developed purple spots on their shoulders. I fear that this is either due to pecking or that its burning from the heat lamp being too close. As a precaution I have moved the lamp up higher...

We now have 10 little chanticlers peepin gin the brooder. I would like to get a second breed of bird so that we can have some variety. Was thinking of goin gwith something a little meatier, but I still can't bring myself to raise Cornish X "meat birds." Does anyone have suggestions for an eating...

I have a half-build coop in the yard, but I'm not sure if I have made it tall enough for our ladies. Can someone please supply the following bits of info? * How high off the floor is about right for the roosts to go? I am thinking about a foot. * How far from the ceiling should the roosts be...

Just an FYI for those fighting the good fight. http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/04/28/13747926.html I still don't know whether mine are legal, but my neighbours either have cows or bowhunt in their backyards, so I think I'm OK on the good neighbour system.

I have 10 Chanticler Chicks right now. Our plan at the outset was to keep about 4-6 birds, one rooster and as many hens as feasible. I am now building our coop, and don't want to overbuild. The plan was to sell the extra roosters, or if there was no interest to have them for dinner. Trouble is...

I have seen various ideas online to build automatic door openers using drapery motors and car antennas. pricing these online it looks like an investment of about $80 by the time all the components are cobbled together. Has anyone tried hacking an electric screwdriver (...

We have our 10 little chicks in the basement right now. They are doing the things chickens do, and generally look happy. We are using a Mr. Turtle Pool as a brooder, (see here: http://ravens-rook.blogspot.com/2010/04/mighty-tiny-chicken-ranch.html ) and it has a diameter of about 36". The...

So my little guys are all in their brooder. When they get sleepy, one of 2 things happens, either they bunch up and sleep in a mass, or they spread out and sleep with their knecks stretched out lying flat on teh ground. Are these behaviours normal?

We were considering raising a couple of hatches of 25 or so meat birds, but being a "chicken virgin" I am more than a little nervous with what I am reading about them. Frey's hatchery's own information says that while they guarantee delivery of healthy chicks, sudden death due to heart...

After much research here and elsewhere, and a fortuitous moment that involved constructing a series of raised garden beds and the unplanned collase of our front entryway, the materials and space are available to build a coop and bring home chicks. It has taken about 2 weeks to find a breeder...