Posts Tagged ‘Garden’

Our Backyard Chickens: Building the Chicken Coop – Day 1

February 23, 2010 - 7:33 pm 7 Comments

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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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Chicken Coop – We just finished the coop and bought 10 hens!

February 14, 2010 - 6:32 pm 24 Comments

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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The Garden Coop – Swivel Latch

October 11, 2009 - 8:13 pm 1 Comment

Take a look at the simple swivel latch for the henhouse door inside The Garden Coop.

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