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    Spring Chicks

    When we built our coop, we built it to fit 20-24 birds.  The run is built for a few more than that.  We also have the opportunity to free range the chickens in the evening.  They do a great job staying in the yard, with a little help from our blue heelers. Ryan probably never…

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    Easy DIY Nest Box

      Our little chickies have been laying eggs like crazy!  I was told not to expect much this winter because the days are short, and hens typically don’t lay as much in the winter.  Well, our hens didn’t get the message.  Today 11 of our 15 hens laid eggs.  That’s nearly 7 dozen a week…

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    Building a Chicken Coop: Part 3

    **This is part 3 of a 4 part series.  Click here to read part 1 and here for part 2**   The chicken coop was missing one major element after we completed part 2: a chicken run!  Our girls (and boy) need a place to run around.   We were temporarily using the dog kennel as a…

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    Stella Needs a New Name

    For two months now, I have been worried we have a rooster in our bunch.  We are only allowed to have our chickens in town if no one complains, and I am worried that a rooster would ruin that for us.  The hatchery we ordered our chicks from guarantees hens, except with the rare breed…

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    Building a Chicken Coop: Part 2

    **This is part 2 of a 4 part series.  Click here to read part 1**   Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was our chicken coop…it took 2 days.  That’s right! It only took us 2 days to get our coop into a functional state.  It may not be pretty on the…

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    Building a Chicken Coop: Part 1

    We worked very hard this weekend building our chicken coop!  I spent a lot of time designing this coop and wanted it to be perfect.  I did a lot of research and drew up my plans for a coop that could be used as a garden shed if we/future owners didn’t have chickens. We did…

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    Preparing for Chickens

    Today we are getting ready to build a coop for our chickens.  Although I recommend building a coop before your chickens arrive, we have done just fine until now by keeping them in a large outdoor dog kennel.  However, we live in town and do not have many chicken predators around.  Since we need a…

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    $40 DIY Chicken Coop

    We are having quite an adventure with our meat chickens.  They are already 4 weeks old and only have a couple weeks to go.  They are growing fast and running out of room in their brooder.  Thankfully, it has been beautiful out and they can start living outside. I drew up some plans for a coop…

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    Easy DIY Chicken Brooder

        We ordered 25 cornish cross chickens to raise for meat.  Since we haven’t done much work on the upstairs yet, we built a brooder we could use in the house and then move outdoors later.  We made the brooder almost completely from scraps, but it would be cheap and easy to buy the…

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