New Chicken Pen For The Spring

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Posted by admin | Posted in Building Chicken Coops | Posted on 29-04-2010

Tags: backyard chickens, chicken coop


In order to save our lawn and garden I had to build a new chicken pen to attach to the chicken coop I built last year. We let our hens run free all Fall and Winter and they practically destroyed the backyard. Once the plants and grass are grown back in this summer we will let them out again. I looked at alot of chicken pens online and decided this was the best design for our hens. We added one a feature to it that I am sure no other chicken pen has. We added a compost screener to the top.


I will create a video shortly to show you how this works but for now I will just explain it. The top of the chicken pen is half inch hardclothe so we built a separate frame around that hardclothe that creates the top of the pen and we can remove to shift our compost.

New Handles for Garden Hutch

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Posted by admin | Posted in Garden Supplies, Garden Tools & Equipment, Shed Garden, chickens | Posted on 04-12-2009

Tags: backyard chickens, chicken coop, city chickens, fresh eggs

We recently purchased this garden hutch (to store chicken feed and a case of beer) and decided to add our own little details to it.
The hutch came w/ some really industrial hardware for the handles and lock.  We decided to soften it w/ our own version with drift wood we found when we camped in Montana 10 years ago! It is drift would from a lake.
It’s simple and matches the hutch so much better.  We also finished it w/ a hand milagro (Hands :: often speaks to craftsman and artists as a talisman of their artwork and their ability to continue to work.)
The hand milagro

was supposed to be a christmas ornament but when we received it by mail it’s too big for the tree…hence, we found a better place for it.

Our First Egg……

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Posted by admin | Posted in chickens | Posted on 04-09-2009

Tags: backyard chickens, chicken coop, city chickens, fresh eggs

Back in May my wife and I purchased 3 little chicks for my daughters birthday.  After several months and lots of interesting stories about raising chickens (which I will post on) we received our first egg.

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