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Thanks for the kind words. She WAS a cool bird. She showed no overt signs of illness prior to today but she had stopped laying a few weeks ago. I thought it was just the time of year. She was my only bird to lay non brown eggs so hers stood out! She was almost 8 months old-I thought that mereks...

I got home from work and found my beautiful Americauna down in the hen house being pecked to death by her sister hens. Rushed her to hospital but things looked bad. She had a fever, couldn't move her legs, could barley raise her head and had a heart murmur. I thought about hospitalizing her...

I live in Portland, and I DID check out the Pistles coop. I just simply could not believe anyone would pay that much money for a coop when you could build one for so much less. Seriously people...

My blog details the build in all it's phases, except for the new access door I built last weekend and the next box I'm working on, but I have a lot of pictures to show each phase of the build. The roof on the main run IS an open design, with hardware cloth and a roof of SunTuf panels to keep...

The 5 month odyssey is finally coming to a conclusion in the next couple of days! Last weekend I turned the plain sheet of plywood on the coop into a nice size external access door (I made it up as I went along, with a lot of help from pictures you all have shared). This weekend I have a nice...

Perhaps I should add that I currently have 1/2" plywood as siding, and planned to lop off the bottom 18" to build the nestbox and attach it to the 2x4 frame of the coop and then reattach the remaining plywood siding once the box is built.

I start building it tomorrow and I'm unsure of a few things. First, yes I need an external nest box. The coop just won't work long term w/o one. I planned (and bought hardware) for one with a hinged lid, but I'm just not sure how to attach the lid in such a way that water won't come in (in...

Thanks everyone, I feel better now! My oldest chicks are 11.5 weeks, and my youngest is 9.5 weeks, so I can see that they still have plenty of time to learn how to do things. After spending every spare second (and over 40 hours alone last weekend) working on the coop/run I was so looking...

Ok, I'm a newbie chicken owner, so maybe this is all normal, but I'm starting to get a little worried. I FINALLY got enough of the coop built last weekend to get the babies out of the tight brooder and into the coop. Of course, they were very frightened for the first couple of days but have...

I went with 1/2" galvanized hardware cloth covering everything, including the apron. Wherever we couldn't attach the cloth with 3/4" poultry staples (not using staples from the staple gun because they come out too easy and the ladies could eat the fallen ones) we overlapped the cloth and wired...

I don't want to know what I've spent, and I still have a bit more to go. I think I'm under 1K, but it would only be by a bit. But it is worth it. I'm getting what I want, exactly what I want, and I can always modify! Here is the project at the end of the day today: this is a bit more than...

I am in so much pain from painting on Friday that I can barley bend over, but at least the main frame is painted so we can set it on the piers today and get the roof on. I'm building the wall frames under the carport, painting when I can (my work schedule just went seriously wonky) and when the...

I like TimberPro UV Internal Wood stabilizer. Its a local company to me, but they do ship. A seriously safe, gree product that really works wonders!

I am so with you! I'm working on my coop here in Portland, and the weather does not like me. I can't even pain the frame under the carport because it takes hours for the paint to dry in this weather! But I'll be out in it later to set up the frame and roof the coop-I have month old chicks and...

Hi there! I am also a newbie currently in construction mode on my first coop! My coop is based on the Garden Coop design (in case you are going the same way) but modified quite a bit. I'm using a combo of ceder and fir for the coop/run; ceder on the lower braces and uprights and fir...

Quote: Very helpful advice!!! Thank you!

Any good tips for putting in windows?

So far I plan to have an external community box big enough for three to lay side by side. I'll see how that goes and sub divide later if I have to. I like the idea of the community box, but I guess the results will be in the function.

That's so sweet! All back to the catching flies with honey, as my grandma use to say..