How do you make a silk purse out of a
sow's ear.................first get rid of the kids.
As every parent knows, we will do as much as we can with the resources we have to make our kids happy, when the human kind grow up and leave the nest....well... it is not too much of a stretch to realize...
Our Serama Coop
We just built this incredible Serama coop.
The above photo shows the "work" bench to the right. This will actually hold our little HovaBators along with the chick brooders. Underneath the bench we store their food in plastic stacking tubs.
Under the window you can see our...
Windows, doors and ramps
Rear doors are 3/4 inch pine with Z bracing, hinged and latched and sealed with weather stripping.
Front doors are 1/8 " glass in a pine frame...
We had very little snow this winter, but all went well anyway. The birds seem to spend the majority of their time in the run too.
I only used the plywood panels on the north side. The birds freaked out with the west side on and I could not watch
them from inside with them on so they were left...
Here is some of my chicken coops:
One is made out of a dog kennel with a roof & plywood added. I just put in new nesting boxes & I am adding sand. I'll take updated pictures soon.
Another is made out of an old Iguana Cage
This one is one of Msbears designer coops
And this one is an...
Pictures of my soffit on my coop
Here is a picture where it shows the hardware cloth that I brought down on the siding. I nailed it and then put a 1x4 on it for cosmetic reasons
Here is a close up of the hardware cloth stapled to the bottom of the joists. I added a 1x2 on the right side to...
Polish Crested Chickens
My First Egg - 4th March, 2008 (The Polish crested pair never managed to have any chicks together.)
Polish Crested at 6th months old
December 2007 - 6 months old (Sadly she died Summer 2010)
January 2008 - 7 months old (Now a daddy to 3 black silkie cross chicks...
Overview of chicken compound before bantam coop was built.
View of coop and run from my backdoor.
Part of the standard chickens run. Door to the duck run and their little duck pond.
Another part of the standards run and view of duck house entrance (has been painted).
The Juvie pen. Might...
This "make-shift coop was an existing building when we purchased our property. It's roughly an 8x8 and was previously used as a "junk holder". My wife decided she would use it for a "half way house" for the chicks until I had the new chicken house completed. She brought home pallets from work (I...
~ Feathers On The Ground ~
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from a hobby grew a passion............................
The coops
Bantam Ameraucanas
Large Fowl Ameraucanas
Runner Ducks
Bantam Polish
~Building a grow out pen~
For the...
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Cochin Chores Cochin Cornucopia Cochin Sunshine
After having a 'chicken/rooster' motif in my kitchen for a few years, I visited the "LIVE" poultry exhibit at the National Western Stock Show in...
It's hot here - gets up to 115 in the summer. In the winter, it rarely gets down to 32 degrees, so we built a 3 sided coop instead of a fully enclosed one. Our coop is 5' x 7 1/2'. We used a 13' x 7 1/2' dog run found on craigslist for the first chicken run. The original coop/run space is...
Insulating for a Nova Scotian Winter
We live exactly in the middle of the northern temperate zone and enjoy four distinct seasons. We're enduring a particularly long winter, longest since 1971 they say. It's a good time to build a coop, and we decided on a tried-and-true method using...