Articles by SanctusPullus

"Darlin" at about 12 days or so, a Black Australorp, mistakenly thought to be the Plymouth Barred Rock, mislabeled at the store. The four chickies, all less than 2 weeks: Darlin, Belle (Light Brahma), Bilbo (Plymouth Barred Rock), and Buttercup (Buff Brahma). Cecilia with "Belle" - don't let...

We love our birds And the final extension to limit the free-ranging to a few hours at the end of the day. A small closable tunnel leads from it to underneath the kid's trampoline to give the birdies a much bigger roaming area and some extra shady outside from the summer sun: It all...

Bucket with ice-water feeds through the roof and to the back wall of the coop. PVC splits to both sides of the run (we have a temp fence up in the middle until the chicks are finally introduced to the flock). And voila! No more muddy dirty water and all we do is add a frozen milk jug to the...