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Very cool!! Looking great so far, how exciting!!

I am doing some level of "cleaning" on the daily, but for the most part, I am changing out the bedding every couple months (or as needed) and doing a "deep clean" twice a year in the spring and fall.

I am still here too!! 2 years in with my flock & still loving it every day! Survived another New England winter, and everyone is doing great and looking forward to having green grass to scratch around in soon!

Hi All, I am in my second fall with my OG hens, and most of them went through some form of a molt, but a couple of them went through a HARD molt. From what I observed, it was a textbook hard molt for both these girls with all the usual signs... pin feathers came in, and slowly they have...

Time for another update!! Long overdue - a LOT has changed!! The OG flock and I survived our first winter together unscathed, complete with 3 arctic blasts, and a lot of snow! The few times it dipped down to -40F for a few days, the ladies came inside the basement to a makeshift coop, and...

We are certainly seeing an uptick of predator activity in our backyard these days, so far a family of foxes and a couple curious raccoons have been caught on my cameras... However yesterday around dusk while I was out in the run doing some poo-scraping I think I saw a MINK hanging around, my...

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Climate change is only going to make things more extreme!!

3 months later, I thought I would give a little update... its honestly not a very exciting update - or maybe a very exciting update, depending on how you look at it. 😂 The panels work great! My birds have endured 2 arctic blasts of sub-zero temps (one getting as low as -33*F) with crazy...

@Offshoreorca oh my goodness - the eggs are stunning, and the flowers too!! 😍😍

If you have some beautiful/artsy photos of your eggs, share them here? My chickens have only been laying a little over 6 weeks now, but I still cant get over how beautiful and perfect their eggs are! Here are a few of my faves I've taken over the last few weeks. I keep thinking the novelty of...

I live in a super cold northeastern climate, so in prep for winter I bought a couple of these heated trough waterers... They've been working great, the chickens are happy. However, I saw a tiktok the other day about how these style waterers can increase the risk for frostbite as your hens are...

Well, the final large panel is installed on my chicken murder greenhouse, and I honestly could not be happier with it. Although we originally thought we might need coverage over at least part of the door/gable side of the run, we actually don't think we do. So that whole side remains open, and...

It has been a couple months, so it's time for another update!! This update is all about the EGGS!!! After weeks of checking an empty nesting box - we had our FIRST egg, on 10/20/22! A beautiful tiny light brown, almost pink egg from our Lavender Orp, Eloise! Since then, she has been giving...

This place is brutal. LOL!

I’m very glad yours works for you. Mine will also work. I can adjust mine to be open or closed depending on weather and needs. Just because I did something different doesn’t make it wrong. ❤️

Yes. It was an intentional decision to make it go all the way up. I am guessing you dont live somewhere where snow blows sideways during some of the storms? :) Fortunately, we engineered these so that they can be "released" from the top half, and folded down, any time we want, with very...

Ventilation (or lack thereof) is a sort of key element of creating a greenhouse, no? You have to trap the air in order to warm it, right? How a greenhouse works (according to google): glass or plastic sheeting are used to allow light to enter the structure where they are absorbed by the...

YES!! This! "One Season" materials is what we want to avoid too! We all should be thinking this way with every decision we make. 🙌🙌🙌

As would I. If you had read more carefully you would see that I do not intend to create a greenhouse. :). Please see my signature line for more details. :)