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We live in South Eastern Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, on a 1 acre lot that includes a barn. The property used to be a chicken farm years ago, owned by a local hukster. But for the past 40 years, it hasn't seen another chicken. After much prodding to my wife, and...
Welcome to Debby10's Roost
Here's the latest and greatest stage of construction of my coop:
The chicken doors are also the ramps. There is one on each end, which will be convenient if I ever divide the coop. I'm closing in on the completion and will certainly be ready...
COOP and RUN for
BUFF ORPINGTON HENSFOUR
Revised 6/16/11
Our coop used to be housing for a large outdoor generator on an island, then was moved to the mainland and abandoned. My DH renovated it to the hilt, thinking that we could always use it as a garden shed if I changed my mind...
Building the Clutch Hutch
We began our coop construction in the fall of 2005 after I was bitten by the chicken bug. The goal was a simple building, using a large percentage of recycled or found materials, but one that looked similar in style to the storage shed we had previously constructed...
Layer's Lodge
When my wife agreed to let me have chickens the only rules given to me was to make sure that I kept the odor under control, they were not to have the run of the entire yard, and the coop would have to look nice since it was going to be part of the yard and she didn't want to...
The Chicken Garden
by Mike & Christine
One of the greatest benefits to raising chickens is the abundance of fertilizer they so freely provide while eating weeds and bugs. So it only makes sense that chickens and gardens should go together. Or should they? Follow along through the trials and...
This is where it all began....from a garage we tore down for materials
Preasure treated wood on cinder blocks (all from garage tear down)
made the floor 8X12
Raising the fist wall (5 foot walls)
2nd Wall (wall w/4 windows)
Back wall (2 windows)
And the man that made it all...