Click on the images below for the continuing story of the coop...
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| Coop Plans |
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| Coop/Run Pics... |
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| The Coop's Beginning... |
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| Introducing the Chicks... |
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| Tricks and Treats |
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| Merry Christmas from the Coop! |
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| Automatic Chicken Feeder |
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| Automatic Chicken Feeder- Plans/Blueprints |
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| A Chicken's Comb- more than a fashion statement.. |
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| Daughters and Chicks- teens and pullets.. |
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| First Egg! |
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| Cooped Up! |
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| An Unexpected Loss and New Additions |
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| Reader's Question: Can I travel if I have chickens and how do dogs interact with chickens? |
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| Tragedy and Comedy... |
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| Reader's Question: Is chicken manure safe to use as fertilizer? |
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| Hen-Pecked... |
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| Reader's Question: How long are eggs safe to eat? |
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| Living-Roof Coops |
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| Beetles, Berries and Buffs |
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| Reader's Question: How do you keep chickens out of the garden? |
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| A Peek Inside the Coop |
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| Constructing a Dust Bath |
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| Cats and Chickens... |
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| Chicken Breeds and... 5-egg Melt-in-your-Mouth Pumpkin Bread |
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| The Chicken Tractor |
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| Molting Observations and End-of-Year Thoughts... |
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| Gardening with Chickens - Part 1 Why Chickens? |
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| Gardening with Chickens - Part 2 The Set-up |
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| Gardening with Chickens - Part 3 |
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| Gardening with Chickens - Part 4 |
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| National Poultry Day! |
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| Spring in the Ozarks |
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| There's More Than One Way to Boil an Egg! |
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| Adding Color to the Flock |
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| Broodiness in the Coop |
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| Boredom in the Brooder |
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| Breaking the Broody - Attempt #1 |
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| DIY: Chicken Feed Sack Tote |
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| Breaking the Broody - Attempt #2 |
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| Cool Coops! - Re-purposed Car Coop |
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| Free Range Chickens = Free Entertainment! |
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| Salmonella: Protecting Yourself and Your Flock |
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| Hot Weather, Cool Water |
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| Cool Coops! - Pallet Coop |
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| She's a Rooster! |
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| Product Review: The Chicken Fountain |
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| DIY: Chicken Waterer |
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| The Fairest of the Fair |
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| Cool Coops! - Bob Bowling Rustics |
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| How to Photograph Chickens |
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| Chickens in the Rain |
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| Gardening with Chickens Update |
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| Cool Coops! - The Cluck Bus |
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| DIY: Chicken Manure Tumbling Composter |
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| Cool Coops! - Re-purposed Trailer Coop |
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| Reader's Question: Are hedge-apples safe for my hens to eat? |
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| Halloween Treats: Spiders! |
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| Cool Coops! - Recycled Counter Coop |
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| Pears, Pumpkins and Pardons |
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| Chickens, Dogs and Chicken Dog Treats |
| Chicken Tales! An Egg Eating Snake! |
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| Cool Coops! Coopvilla in Coupville |
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| A Patriotic Predator: The Bald Eagle |
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| Cool Coops! The Chicken Castle |
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| DIY: Raising Mealworms (Part 1) |
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| Book Review: "Reinventing the Chicken Coop" |
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| DIY: Chick Feeders / Bird Feeders |
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| Green Eggs and Ham |
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| DIY: Botanical Easter Eggs |
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| DIY: Raising Mealworms (Update) |
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| Cool Coops! Solar Power Chicken Coop |
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| Cats and Chickens |
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| Cool Coops! A Circular Coop |
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| Community Chicken Keepers: Gnome Range Farms |
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| Native American Turkeys |
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| Cool Coop! The Chick Compound |
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| Community DIY: Bag Collar Feeder |
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| Cool Coops! The Beach Shack |
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| Community DIY: Making a Dresser into a Brooder |
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| Cool Coops! Double Deck Chicken Coop |
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| Chickens and Sunflowers |
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| Book Review: "Put an Egg on It" |
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| Cool Coops! Solar Powered and Full of Gadgets |
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| Mealworm Molting Treats |
Your coop - and blog - are beautiful. I hope you will take a look at my Henhouse series at the commonweeder. I have a few more coops to visit - once the three feet of snow melts. It is interesting to see the ingenuity and variety of homemade coops.
ReplyDeleteThe Henhouse series is great! I also love homemade coops..the creativity is sometimes incredible. Thanks for sharing the hardwork and craftmanship that people have put into their projects--I can't wait to see more of your posts!
ReplyDeletehi can youshow or tell more details about the connevtion between the coop and run at the chain links run.thanks maggie ps dont know how to select profile. not very good on computer
ReplyDeleteMaggie-I understand your frustration with computers, sometimes they have a mind of their own! If you click on the photo above of the coop/run connection, it will show more photos and explanations of how we attached the coop to the run.
ReplyDeleteWhat great stuff! I have hopes that at some point I'll have chickens and your coop plans are inspiring. I just attended a program on green roofs and your application is wonderful. I must share that with our presenter and the other attendees! Thanks for providing these details...maybe I'll move a litte faster now!
ReplyDeletethanks, i want to do this to my runs i have two runs with a common side and i,ve been carring 5 lg. chicken and 6 bantams from the coop and runs and back every day i already have one poop door about one foot from one run and can make another door on the side wall for the other run.the poop door opens into the coop and is fastened from the inside maggie
ReplyDeletewe are looking to do chickens soon as well - probably within a year or two at the latest. We will build or buy a moveable chicken coop on wheels. Rhode Island Reds, here we come!
ReplyDeleteI need to make a feeder like that! We just got our first chicks a few weeks ago and we are totally learning as we go!
ReplyDeleteI love the living roof! What did you do to protect the roof from water damage? I would like to build a living roof also, but wasn't sure how to do it. Any tips would be appreciated. Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteI love the loving roof also :) If you click on the "Living Roof Coops" photo above, the post gives a detailed description of how we made the roof (including how we water-proofed it)!
This is a great coop. I am curious to see pictures inside the coop. The link to those photos above returns and error. Any chance seeing how you have the interior setup?
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Craig
Sorry Craig... All the links should be corrected now!
ReplyDeleteJust came across your site this weekend - (thanks for linking up on Friday's Photo Blog Hop).
ReplyDeleteI LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your garden roof-top chicken coop. I'm hoping to get chickens sometime in the next year or two. I told my husband yesterday about your coop and that it's exactly what I'd like to have [him build ;)].
Hey hey - we recently got some chickies of our own and this site is a big help until the 'Ultimate chicken manual' that I ordered picthes up! :) Thanx
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for posting this info and beautiful photos. I have a couple questions...
ReplyDelete1. Did you cut a hole into the kennel/run for the chickens to go into. I couldn't quite tell from the photos but it looks like their steps go into the run.
2. Also, do you think the coop itself could be made mobile by the addition of wheels or is it too heavy?
Thank you!
If you click on the photo of the run-coop connection it will take you to more detailed tails and an explanation of how we attached the two. Their steps do go from the coop into the run...
ReplyDeleteThe coop is definitely too heavy for wheels. My husband said when he was building it that was so solid (and heavy) that we could use it as a storm shelter during a tornado!
I so love your blog!
ReplyDeletei recently converted a single bed to a coop and raised 10 chickens (one died, have 9 only)! sad that i will have to cook them for my babys birthday but im planning to buy more for eggs!!!!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your garden roof-top chicken coop. I'm hoping to get chickens sometime in the next year or two.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great coop.
ReplyDeleteI so love your blog!
ReplyDeleteDid you cut a hole into the kennel/run for the chickens to go into. I couldn't quite tell from the photos but it looks like their steps go into the run.http://yeudiy.blogspot.com
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ReplyDeleteGetting any animal you need to make him a decent place to stay. Never mind, the chicken is either a dog. It is not necessary that chickens run around the yard and could not have their own roof.
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