Category: Coop

Most chicken hacks you’ll find are somebody’s first month of keeping birds, written up as though it worked. Some of these did…

A 5-gallon bucket makes a better nest box than most of the plywood ones I’ve built. That’s not me being cheap. Plastic…

Three dead hens. That’s what I found that January morning, stiff in the corner of the coop, after what I thought was…

Now I ain’t no expert chicken farmer, but I’ve had my fair share of feathered friends on the homestead over the years.…

The Pen I Built First Was Beautiful and a Raccoon Defeated It in Eleven Days Three hundred and forty dollars. Cedar posts,…

I built a coop from a Pinterest plan that had 47,000 saves. Cost me six hens that winter. The plan had beautiful…

Let me tell you a funny story about myself and chicken coops. Last year I decided to finally start raising backyard chickens.…

I still remember the first time I went out to the coop to find half my chickens gone. It was a mess…

Man, I’ll never forget the first winter after I built my chicken coop. I thought those feathered ladies of mine would be…

So the other day I was out collecting eggs from my coop like I do every morning. But when I went to…

As a backyard chicken keeper for over a decade, I get asked this question a lot by folks just getting into the…