At last, for the grand unveiling: our new mobile chicken coop. People sometimes ask why we want a coop on wheels. There is some advantage to having a stationary chicken coop. First, you don’t have to put wheels on it. Second, you can totally contain a stationary coop to keep out predators both four-legged and […]
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By popular demand, here’s an update on our chicks. As you can see from the photo above, our 30 Rhode Island Reds are no longer cute little balls of fluff, but after four weeks of furious eating have grown into near-adulthood and the reptilian version of a chicken they were meant to be. And they […]
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I didn’t know this was going to happen so soon. I drove to the Agway in Salem for lumber to build a chicken coop and there in a big galvanized cattle trough were bunches of chicks of different breeds, $2.75 a piece. I didn’t intend to buy any–I was going to order some online after […]
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