The hen House

This is an update on the Coop and the Backyard

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Dan Marleau takes you through the planning, execution, and operation of a chicken coop in your own back yard. View the entire video at http://videos.med.wisc.edu/food

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Building the chicken coop with my dad, Gary, and son, Calvin. I got really lucky with this video… first, with one of my dad’s bits of sage advice and second, with a little political commentary courtesy of my dad.

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I converted a lean-to (shack) into a chicken coop. The coop is approx 5′ x 9′. I have a book called “back to basics” that we got at a garage sale. It had some guide lines and measurements that I utilized. I used mainly old plywood and wood we had laying around so I didn’t have to buy much wood. The hens will be six months old in a couple of weeks, and that’s about the time they start laying eggs. We got 4 – Rhode Island Reds (brown eggs), 2 – Buff Orphingtons (brown eggs), and 4 – Americanas (blue or green eggs)

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Food author James Beard once said that bread is the most satisfying of all foods. And, The Farm to Market Bread Company in Kansas City, Missouri thinks that creating distinctive breads is the ultimate homage to heartland wheat.

Visit http://tinyurl.com/yzopkp3 to see the rest of episode 510. The Monsanto Company – http://www.monsanto.com and the American Farm Bureau Federation – http://www.fb.org make presentation of America’s Heartland possible.

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