by Jennifer Burcke Several months ago, I invited all of the readers at Community Chickens to share their story with me.  Since then, I have been busy reading your creative solutions to chicken keeping challenges.  I have really enjoyed learning about your inventive designs for your coops. One of the more creative coop construction stories […]

 by Kathy Shea Mormino, The Chicken Chick. As a kid, driving around neighborhoods admiring the Christmas lights with my 4 siblings in the back seat of the family station wagon was always one of the highlights of the season. I still enjoy holiday light displays and, as a chicken-keeper, I find holiday coop displays absolutely […]

Coop between the road and the hill by Meredith Chilson Photos by author We have 5 acres of land here: a long, narrow strip that includes our house, garden and chicken coop sandwiched between a county-maintained side road and a wooded hillside. Because of the proximity of the road and the fox den and hawk’s […]

by Rebecca Nickols Photos by author My husband and I had both been dreaming of tractors … His dream was of a tractor that he could attach things to (front loaders, back hoes, augers, brush hogs). My idea of a tractor, however, was a movable coop that I could strategically place in my yard or […]