The British have taken chickens arks as they call them, to an art form. But with the US dollar weak against the Euro, who can afford to pay $1,000.00 or more for a place to keep their chickens? The Catawba Brougham ConvertiCoop chicken coop can be built for significantly less money, and still maintain the look of a piece of fine cabinetry built with relatively few woodworking tools. You don’t have to own a “New Yankee Workshop” to build a Catawba Brougham ConvertiCoop that wi (more…)

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Chickens is a great introductory guide to raising a healthy flock of happy chickens. From hens to roosters, from layers to broilers, Weaver covers the essentials in a straight forward style. You won’t need to worry about your chickens flying the coop with this resource in hand. –John Ivanko, co-author of Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life

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Chickens are the perfect hobby farm animal, and Sue Weaver’s book Chickens is the pe (more…)

A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when main-line farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future. “All of us interested in seeing an American rural revival sh (more…)

A chicken tractor is a bottomless, portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavor. Chicken tractors have helped thousands of gardeners have better gardens and taken chickens out of factory farms and put them in the garden where they are your personal helpers.

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From Oakland, California, to Madison, Wisconsin, to Brooklyn, New York, the backyard buzz is all about urban chicken keeping, and mainstream publications, such as the New York Times and the New Yorker, have chronicled the trend’s growth, especially among members of the local food movement. Foreman, who has authored several urban agriculture and chicken-themed titles, offers a full compendium of everything a novice city chicken farmer needs to start and maintain a (more…)

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DESCRIPTION:
This ain’t grandad’s chicken coop! A perfect way to start your urban farming endeavor! Open the egg door in the back every morning to find fresh eggs. Easily move the coop around your yard to help fertilize soil.

DIMENSIONS:
The ChickenCrib is a perfect home for 2-3 hens in your backyard. Overall dimensions are 40″W X 62″L x 36″T.

MATERIALS:
Very high quality materials materials are used for construction of this coop. Marine plywood, galvanized hardware, stainle (more…)

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The British have taken chickens arks as they call them, to an art form. But with the US dollar weak against the Euro, who can afford to pay $1,000.00 or more for a place to keep their chickens? The Catawba Brougham ConvertiCoop chicken coop can be built for significantly less money, and still maintain the look of a piece of fine cabinetry built with relatively few woodworking tools. You don’t have to own a “New Yankee Workshop” to build a Catawba Brougham ConvertiCoop that will (more…)

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“Reading this book is like walking down a quiet corridor of a museum, peeping into this room and that. All manner of curiosities await discovery. Home to Roost is a compulsively readable history of man’s relationship with Gallus domesticus, rich with anecdote, fable, and fact. Sheasley can write, and his lyrical, often droll prose winds around and through the happy maze of fact and fiction he’s constructed. Even as he tackles sobering topics like avian flu and the pat (more…)