Chicken coops plans

Volume 13 of MAKE Magazine has hit the newstands, and it includes an article I wrote about raising backyard laying hens, Backyard Hens…that link takes you directly to the article in the MAKE Digital Edition – read it online!

Here’s some additional resources and links to supplement the article.

Equipment and Supplies (including coops)

California Wine Country Chicken Chat – and …

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June 5, 2009Chickens coming home to roost in TC?

BY SHERI MCWHIRTER

TRAVERSE CITY — Chickens are rare as hens’ teeth in Traverse City, but that could change.

City workers are scratching out guidelines to allow residents to raise chickens, rules modeled after ordinances adopted in communities across the country, including Ann Arbor. The concept is part of a growing urban farming trend …

It’s no joke. Ludlow, his wife, Emily, and their two daughters have five egg-laying hens living in the backyard of their Bay Area home in Pleasant Hill, Calif. “Can your dog or cat claim the same?” Ludlow asks.

He is among the growing number of city dwellers across the country choosing chickens as pets — raising them for eggs that proponents say taste fresher, for pest control, for …

In the backyard of a suburban home in Denver, Colorado, 22 chickens are hiding out from the law.

They arrived when a member of BackyardChickens, an online forum, ordered the birds in the mail this past May. “I actually get my chicks in today hopefully, and I am worried that animal control will be at the post office waiting for me with hand-cuffs,” the new poultry farmer wrote.

An …