Though there are many different styles and sizes of chicken housing, they all fall into one of several main categories: mobile, stationary and what I will call semi-mobile (or semi-portable). Let’s look at each of these in more detail. Mobile Coops Mobile chicken housing is housing that’s meant to be moved (and that’s built in such […]
Matthew, who raises Black Australorp breeders and supplies us with hatching eggs, uses several 10 foot x 10 foot or 10 foot x 12 foot metal frame hoop coops to house his flocks. Each coop contains roosts, nest boxes, hanging feeders and has room to place water founts. He generally keeps about 10-14 birds in […]
Several people have recently requested this information, and I thought it might be useful to others, too. The elusive perfect coop design continues to be sought after by the pastured poultry crowd, and with the growth of interest in sustainable poultry, we often receive questions about what coops we are using. This short update will show you what […]
There are a number of different ways to house chickens, and lots of different styles of coops. The approach that I like best for a small flock is the chicken tractor. What is a Chicken Tractor? A chicken tractor is basically a bottomless coop that keeps the chickens contained and gives them direct access to […]
