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I just completed a backyard beehive pizza oven. In Illinois, we have to be mindful of the heaving that occurs during the freeze/thaw cycles, so I excavated down three feet and built it up from there. I have a nice base of field rocks about 3 feet in diameter and the oven was built on fire...

train the son. If he's old enough to be going off to work, he's old enough to learn how to make sure the chickens are ok. Leave an emergency number (the neighbor?), and go enjoy your life.

dark chocolate is sometimes used in making pumpernikel bread, I think.

I have three nest boxes for ten young chickens. When they first started laying, I would find some eggs in the nest boxes, but I've found eggs on the floor, on an old board in the coop, INSIDE their feed bag, inside the pine shavings bag and a few other assorted places, all inside the coop. I...

Mine LOVE raisins, any melon, huge overgrown yellow cucumbers sliced in half, and just about everything. Some things they are more partial to, but there isn't anything I've found that they won't eat, given half a chance. Raisins and craisins are their "oh my gosh, mom's got treats" food, though.

You captured the goings on very well. Nice writing. Isn't it funny how they communicate with each other, and also with us if we are open to receiving their messages? I hope they all accept their new, improved, possum-less digs very soon.

I have three RIR's that are almost 19 wks. old. One of them layed her first egg last Saturday and has layed an egg each day since. I also have a black wyandotte the same age and she is one of four of those. She layed her first egg the day after the RIR and has also been regular. I have ten...

You know you're a crazy chicken lady when your Facebook friends tell you that you should write a chicken book for kids, based on all the characters in your coop. The talk bubbles get very interesting.

I like it. Slap some white paint on the wood parts, replace the boxes for white buckets, and you'll be magically transformed from redneck to genius. Paint the tires, too, then paint another one, fill with sand, and you'll have a perfect dustbathing area for them.

Blueberries. Fresh picked. Also, almost every day, raisins. That is a guaranteed chicken stampede.

There is an absolute riot when I go out with raisins. My ten 15 week old girls love raisins. They love yogurt, too, but it's very messy.

Here's what I'm thinking about your situation. Why not move the coop CLOSER or next to the back of the house? Leave it painted as it is, install a small section of privacy fence from the corner of the house to just beyond the coop and plant a fast-growing decorative vine or shrub next to the...

I love the red roof. That's what I want on my chicken coop...being built very soon. Our house has a red tile roof, and my ultimate chicken coop roof would be that same tile, but I don't have a source for it. I sure wish I did.

That's beautiful. One thing about it. If you get tired of chickens, you have a great storage shed for tools, lawn tractor, etc. Very nice.

I am in Illinois. What I wouldn't give to have you come up and build something just like this for me. I'm afraid our coop will look something more like what the Beverly Hillbillies would have had. Haven't built it yet, but hubby is a farmer, not a carpenter. This is so beautiful. Your wife and...

I don't know if chickens are like other birds in that respect, but having a female mulberry tree in our yard all these years has been very aggravating. The birds (sparrows, etc.), eat the berries, fly away, roost in other trees, poop, and first thing you know, we have tons of volunteer mulberry...

I think I should have done a search before I posted this. I've talked myself out of using them. I think just the ground would make more sense, if indeed the 8 x 8 is what I go with. I have ten birds.

Just wondering if anyone has ever done this. I have a large supply of used bricks, and rather than pouring a concrete floor, which I am not going to do, I thought maybe I would build the coop (or rather 8 x 8 shed), then lay a layer of used bricks on the floor. The roost, nest boxes, etc. would...

thanks everyone. I will keep trying. At $10 a bag, maybe I'm lucky they don't like them yet. If what's sprouted grow and produce seed heads, then I'll have plenty, for sure.