Watching my young pullets wander around outside their new coop, it occurred to me they were awfully vulnerable to attack from the sky. Any minute, a hawk could swoop down and carry one away. What we needed, I figured, was someone with eyes on the sky–a rooster, perhaps, to sound a warning should an attack […]
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The big day has finally arrived: time for our chicks to exit their coop. I fastened the door open. The chicks stepped tentatively forward. They took turns looking outside for a long time, considering whether to take the big leap into our yard outside the basement door. Some of our teen-aged hens have a lot […]
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For months–even before moving to our farm property–I agonized over the design of a mobile chicken coop, reading everything about coops I could lay my hands on, watching endless videos on Youtube about coop construction. I never found anything that precisely described what I was looking for–a compact, lightweight home for our chickens that we […]
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