We have about 3 dozen free range chickens in our place in the woods. Two really good dogs watch over them during the day and keep any predators at bay. At dusk the chickens automatically go back inside their coops (which are shut at night), and the dogs are tied up outside around the coops. […]
Hen Walks Out Of The Woods With Chicks…Again. Read More »
A fox attacked one of our hens and this is what we found. The hen survived. Our dog took off after fox, but it got away. It happened again a couple days later with the same outcome. The chickens are locked up in their run for a bit. Hopefully the fox will look for easier
We didn’t expect to be THIS involved in raising chickens when we moved out here. We started out with 7 hens in the smaller coop on the left of this picture, but this is our third summer here and we’ve built a larger coop (on the right) and have a total of 22 free range
The Chicken Compound Read More »
Sarah wanted to document the state of our 2015 garden by recording a video at the beginning of July. She does talk briefly about the chicken coops and the compost bins as well. This is only our second year of gardening, so I suspect we will look back at this video and have a few
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We have just finished our coop (more or less). The coop measures a little smaller than 4’x8’. We have an enclosed run that measures 12’ x 8’ with a 6’ high fence, but the birds will be free range as much as possible during the daytime. There is no top to the run, but it
Cedar posts cut and post holes dug for compost bins. Sarah and I have talked at length about all the things we want to do at our new place. I will be moving there ahead of Sarah and Ben (+ two cats) in preparation for us all to live there permanently this summer. We have
Setting Homesteading Goals for 2014 Read More »