Excellent detail. I was very grateful for the info about the 4 chick molts, as well as hard and soft molts. The pictures are very helpful as well. Thank you!
Very informative, but more detail would be helpful. Should I consider giving my chickens the leaves as well as the flowers, for instance? I have smelled the leaves of all types of marigolds, from pot marigolds to the french and other types. They smell pretty strong and not appetizing to me. (of course, i don't eat grass either, or enjoy artemesia, both of which my hens love). Otherwise, a very good article. Thank you.
Very helpful with lots of detail and information on how to treat, how much an emergency each disease is, and how each spreads. Excellent article. I am bookmarking it. Thank you!
Very helpful. I like having dimensions by size of bird. I liked the variety of nest box options. I liked the curtains and explanation of why those are important to the birds (and us). Excellent photos to help illustrate all your points. Very helpful and useful. thank you!
This article not only has great information on the nutritive value of peas (and the standard warning about not too much of any good thing), but it also has some fun ideas about ways to entertain your chickens with peas. I have the end of my spring peas now, and they are going, chopped with edible pod, into chicken and quail dinner pans. But I had missed the potential as a toy! And the thought of breaking out frozen peas year round is a joy. Wonderful article. Thank you!
Very helpful. I like that the article is clear that the corn husks don't really have a lot of nutritive value, that they are just interesting for the chickens to pick at and have something to eat on without messing up their digestion too much with, say, corn kernels. I also like that the article points out that chickens will benefit from having the husks steamed and chopped up - I don't think I would have thought of that - my poor chickens!
Excellent article, with helpful detail about ways to prepare or avoid carrots for chickens. The details about nutrients, and cautions about amounts of treats are helpful (I am not sure I would have thought of carrots as treats). I am always looking for ways to boost my chickens' diet variety since they are not free ranging yet, so these articles are very helpful.
Excellent, though there are tomatoes that ripen in many colors other than red. But that is just a nitpick on an otherwise wonderful article. Very helpful and heartening. I got excited for a few moments thinking maybe my chickens COULD eat tomato leaves and flowers, so it's a good thing the article is so clear about NOT. thank you for an excellent article with nice illustrations. Good detail, with explanations about why.
I was disappointed that the only ideas for reducing flies were:
1. clean coop
2. diatomaceous earth
More ideas, please, would be very helpful. There seems to be a consensus that diatomaceous earth is not good for chickens, because it gets in breathing passages - same problem for people. An interesting reference to diatomaceous earth aiding chicken health, without enough detail to track down, and no citation or link. This is a problem, too.
A nice start to a thought provoking article. Needs more detail and breadth. I like the discussion of chicken calls, especially, and enjoyed the chat at the end of the article between the author and readers. I would like to hear more on this topic, and if there is more on reading chicken stress as well.
Very nice design with excellent pictures. The article would be better if you came back and told whether you got the PVC you were waiting for, and did it make a difference. I do like that you checked to be sure 1 week chicks can use this. I also like that you reported on the slow flow and how you fixed it.
Also, PS. Aart is a woman. Great designs, and I applaud that you give credit where you got the basic idea from.
The pictures carry this article, and help make it better. I love the rain recover system. I would love to hear how that has worked. I imagine they have to keep that tree pruned back. I wonder how that works in the summer?
It is a beautiful coop, and I like a lot of things about the design. I would love to see more details and pictures of the build process. I would love to see a list of what works and what should be improved.
this coop design should be removed. The videos are long gone and there is not much here. There is no information on the coop or run. I hope those were in the vanished videos. Too bad.
Nice info on how cheap the build was. It was a good idea to use the screen doors and replace the screen. But it would have been a safer idea to use hardware cloth rather than chicken wire, I think.
I like the double door design with one being a door for ventilation. Sort of a horizontal dutch door idea.
It is a cute design and possibly something others can use or modify. It would be lots easier to do that if you included more information on the build process. You have some pictures of the build, but no information on the process or how you designed it, really.
Need more pictures of the build process, and pictures of the inside of the coops. How do you get inside the coops to clean them? How do you get inside to get eggs? Where do you put the feed, grit, oyster shell?
Any feedback about how the chickens are doing in these tractors? How often do you have to move them and how heavy are they to move? Will you keep the hens in these over winter? (or do you have winter where you live?)
I can see that one of the roofs does not have a regular roof ridge on it. It would be interesting to know if that is permanent and is that working well.
Also, I really like to see an author include notes on what works well and what they would change.
The pictures help carry the article. Because we can see that the coop is well insulated from the pictures, it is not needed so much to say so. I like that she gives the dimensions for the coop and run. I very much like the evaluations the author gives at the end, things she wishes they had done differently, and things they did really right.
That said, more detail on how it was constructed would make this a better article. I understand that the dad did the construction, and the author is a different person (give that dad a gold star). But if he would help edit this article, it could become a 5 star article. It is a very nice coop, with some excellent features.
One thing I LOVE about this article is how they solved the winter snow problem with the door. Just cut off a foot of the door, and fill it in with a board. Amazing and so simple. That kind of detail makes this article better. More would make the article more useful to all of us. Thank you for sharing the great pictures and a good article.
Excellent article taking us through grief into some practical steps to learn what we can and make things better in the future. Thank you! It's a well written warm hearted article.
