Chicken coops plans

Automatic Chicken Coop Door Opener Project

This is an Arduino (clone) powered automatic chicken coop door opener that has a couple of gravity-actuated latches that should keep out racoons, etc.. Blog-site for this project: slinkyx.blogspot.com Also, great minds think alike: www.fabiens.org …

Types of ventilation

Passive (natural) ventilation means that you have openings that air flows through with no help from you or the power grid — just the natural action of wind and the tendency of warm air to rise. Passive ventilation includes an open window, a ventilation slot, a louvered gable-end vent, that sort of thing.

Passive ventilation is the easiest, cheapest, safest, and …

Outdoor Chicken Yard

We want our chickens to be happy, but safe. In our region there are many predators that endanger free roaming chickens. Besides coyote which are prevalent in the area, there have been sightings of both mountain lions and wolves in the vicinity. Several of our neighbors have lost hens to these predators, even chickens that were thought to be protected by fenced-in yards. …

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We all learn to coddle day-old baby chicks: we keep them warm and protect them from floor drafts that might chill them. It’s easy to carrythis too far when the chickens get older. Chickens have sensitive lungs and need good air quality to thrive. If we shut up our chicken housestoo tightly, the houses will be dark, dank, and smelly, and the chickens will do poorly.

Since adult chickens …

WELCOME TO CHICKENFEED!

We are just beginners here, looking for knowledge and health, wanting to start out right. Beginners like us usually choose to use commercial mixed feeds, and supplement with our own blends as we learn more. The many questions that arise can best be answered at the ChickenFeed group at Yahoo!Groups. Please enjoy this website, and post anything and everything that …

We’ve modified our chicken nesting boxes and it has made a huge difference in the behavior of our egg laying chickens.

Low Egg Production

This past fall our egg production numbers fell significantly when our chickens developed a habit for routinely eating eggs. After a bit of research we decided to modify the nesting boxes, from large communal boxes to shoe box size nesting spaces.

The …

We’ve had our egg laying chickens for about 8 months. It’s my first experience raising chickens and there has been a lot to learn.

Egg Laying Chickens for Beginners

When we first decided to raise chickens our coop was not yet constructed, but we went ahead and made arrangements to buy a half dozen pullets (young hens) from a nearby farm. Since our farm was not equipped with a space …

Dachshund nice job & thrifty buying, with a plan. - I’m sure the chickens are laying some nice farm fresh eggs – as payment of thanks !! ——————– AN OLD CHICKEN COOP STORY – WORTH SHARING: I grew up on a farm, near Teeswater, Ontario & my neighbours dad had another 100 acres down the road a few miles, in an area called the “Alps”. Great fishing spot for small …

Several years ago I was living and working at Dalpura Farm in Moriac,Victoria a 100 or so acre silvapastoral project.The client George Howson was interested in implementing an aquaponics system so we all went for a day and a half trip to Melbourne to attend a seminar on the subject.

Leading up to this I had started gathering chickens and roosters from the local area from people giving them …