Articles by MeettheFlockers
The Chicken Village
Welcome to my coop page, my name is Elana. After a year of convincing, plotting and throwing staplers at him, I was finally able to persuade my husband to go along with a backyard menagerie of flockers. I came up with a cottage-style concept with several houses &...
Our Chikkens
We primarily raise silkies, including blue, splash, buff and lavenders. Here are a few of our lovely birds.
The Hen House!
The concept of "cottages" was the basis for the three houses. We ended up making the house a bit more rectangle to go along with the run which was built first. It is a 4 foot x 8 foot insulated house with easy wash vinyl flooring. We have approx. 14 nest boxes inside it.
Here...
The Brooder
Well hot diggity-dog! With 35 chicks hatched and many more hatching every day, I decided to make them a new 2 x 4 feet brooder that could accomodate the cozy lamp brooder (21" x 21") I have.
This is probably the third brooder I've built and by far the largest. I built it...
The Rooster House
Our cockhouse was a Craigslist find from someone letting go an old kid's playhouse for a steal. I had planned to build another cottage from scratch but couldn't pass up the price. We modified the house a bit: we added insulation, redid the windows with plexiglass instead of...
The Chikken Runs
We decided on two runs- one would be for Splash & Lavender, while the other would be for Buff colored chicks.
--- Uh- oh WAIT A SECOND. As of May 26th, 2010, we now have added a third run. Ideally, I had planned to keep my husband in that one, but after realizing it lacked...