Here are some pictures of the new portable chicken shelter that our friends, David and Maureen, built for their chickens in Colorado. It has no floor and will be moved ahead by hand to new ground every day. It has two sets of fully enclosed roosts so that the chickens can be secured from predators [...]
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Another Portable Chicken Shelter
Posted in Coop Construction, tagged chick, chicken coops, chicken tractor, Chickens, Coop Construction, portable chicken coop on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Colorado Chicken Coop
Posted in Coop Construction, tagged chicken coops, Chickens, Coop Construction on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m finally getting around to doing an entry on our friends’ awesome coop (see flickr photo stream at left for more pics). We visited David and Maureen at their lovely homestead in Colorado last fall during harvest time, and were inspired by so many of the exciting ideas they were implementing. They have found their [...]
Transitional Coop for Chicks
Posted in Coop Construction, tagged chick, chicken coops, Chickens, Coop Construction on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our new chicks rapidly outgrew their 2nd home, my dog’s old training crate, so we brought in the perfect person for the job – Jan’s husband Craig. A master woodworker and great designer, he had a plan drawn up for the girls’ newest home within a day or two, purchased the supplies, and pre-cut the [...]
Burlap is Scary…
Posted in Coop Construction, tagged Chicken Behavior, Coop Construction, urban chickens on December 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
… or so the behavior of my chickens would lead me to believe. Several weeks ago, I decided to cover the chicken’s access door to their outdoor run with burlap that had been cut into wide strips with the intent of keeping the coop a little warmer this winter. I saw a similar treatment in [...]
Wasatch Gardens 2010 Tour de Coops
Posted in Chickens, Coop Construction, Facilities, tagged chicken coop tour, Chickens, Coop Construction, raising chickens, Salt Lake City, urban chickens on June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
5th Annual Tour de Coops Saturday, June 26 10am – 2pm Various locations throughout the Salt Lake Valley If you have never been on our Tour de Coops, make 2010 your first year…we know it won’t be your last. The Tour de Coops is a fun, affordable community event that can be family-friendly or a [...]
Nesting Boxes
Posted in Chickens, Coop Construction, tagged nesting boxes, raising chickens on January 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
What a treat to find these beauties in the nesting box every morning! I love how the girls push the straw to the sides, creating the cute nests I thought only existed in cartoons. They really do look like that!
Lucy Flew the Coop
Posted in Coop Construction, Facilities, Predators, tagged chicken coops, chicken run, raising chickens, urban chickens on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or to be more exact, she flew out of the run today. We have a small section we let the girls out in when we are at the office which is not covered on the top. There are some large viburnum shrubs that provide most of the shade and cover in the area, but apparently [...]
June Coop Tour – Salt Lake City Area
Posted in Coop Construction, tagged chicken coop tour, chicken coops, Chickens, Salt Lake City, urban chickens on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This June 27th, Wasatch Community Gardens is hosting a “Tour de Coops” event. Hop on this self-guided tour of backyard chicken coops around Salt Lake! Come to the Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E, between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. to purchase a tour guidebook. Coops will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. [...]
Chicks – Week 3
Posted in Chickens, Coop Construction, tagged chicken coops, Chickens, poultry on May 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The girls are so fun to watch – it seems like they’re doing something new each day. Jan said she put a piece of lettuce in the coop on Saturday and the pullets just went crazy over it. That is, after they dared to go near it. She said they chased each other trying to [...]
Gradual Progress – Coop Part Three
Posted in Coop Construction, tagged chicken coops, Chickens, Coop Construction, poultry on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
View the photos here. We were able to cross a few more items off of our TO DO list for the coop this past weekend, but also ran into a little roadblock. The chicken/man door on the south side of the coop is now up. It is a beautiful (for a chicken coop) custom door [...]
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