If you’re wondering how to build a chicken coop and feel like it may be too big of an undertaking, finding the right set of downloadable chicken house plans can help simplify and streamline the ...

With a total footprint of 6 by 16 feet, the coop anatomized below, based on a $3,000 model from mypetchicken.com, fulfills that function for at least ten chickens and incorporates a generous run for ...

Keeping chickens for the first time involves a lot of research, paperwork and planning. It can be exciting when you reach one of the first areas for concrete action, building a chicken coop. First, ...

As the urban-homesteading movement puts down ever-deeper roots within Indy’s city limits, the genteel farmers of SoBro, Irvington, and the like have naturally turned to livestock—specifically backyard ...

How hard could it be to make a chicken coop door that can be configured to open and close automatically using a straightforward interface? That’s the question that [Jeff Sandberg] set out with, after ...

Mike Robidoux of East Haddam, Connecticut, is an operating engineer at a power plant by trade, woodworker by hobby, and now chicken farmer by his wife's impulse. When Mike's wife came home with eight ...

Your chickens don’t need heavy insulation or added heat—but they do need protection from drafts. Here are some tips.

The standard chicken coop is taller than a duck house needs to be because nesting boxes are typically installed off the ground along with a bar for roosting on at night. The first thing to do is to ...

Thoughtful features. Smart-tech upgrades available. Excellent security from curious critters. Easy egg retrieval. Mobile. Easy assembly. Super simple to clean. Typos in the instruction manual. Came ...