Picture Sundays: A Chicken Coop Made From a Trampoline

October 28, 2012

From the Homesteading/Survivalism Facebook page, a chicken coop made from a trampoline. Here’s a little more on the project. This coop appears to be a DIY variation on the Joel Salatin movable poultry pen. I’m assuming there’s a way to lock the chickens in the top part at night to keep out critters that might dig under the run. ...

2008 . . . a year of luxury

Mr. Homegrown

January 1, 2008

Animals, Chickens

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2008 began with the sort of absurd juxtaposition we’ve come to expect from life in Los Angeles–loading 25 pounds of chicken feed into a $70,000 Jaguar (not our car for those keeping score). It was all part of a combination run to the feed store for chicken supplies and trip to the Getty Villa to scope out their Roman herb garden and ancient tchatzhahs. The reason to hit the feed store was a return of schoolyard bully behavior from ou...

Chicken Coop Made From Ikea Parts

Mr. Homegrown

June 28, 2009

Animals, Chickens

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Remix the following Ikea items–Mydal bunk bed, Trofast storage unit with shallow drawers, Vika Oleby legs and a Gorm bottle rack–and you get a stylish chicken coop mashup. Read more about Aaron Bell and wife Corinne’s coop at Ikeahacker....

Saturday Linkages: Ginger Grating, Food Poisoning and Williams-Sonoma Chicken Coops

Mr. Homegrown

April 7, 2012

Saturday Linkages

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Williams-Sonoma’s “Alexandria” Coop. Quick Tip: Grate Ginger with a Fork http://www.thekitchn.com/quick-tip-grate-ginger-with-a-fork-168905 How long does food poisoning last?: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/05/how-long-does-food-poisoning-l.html La Creuset chicken feeders, perhaps? Williams-Sonoma High-End DIY Line A timeline of American food trends: http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html These, and more linka...

Meet My Chickens: the continuing story of Chickenzilla

Homegrown Neighbor

May 17, 2009

Animals, Chickens

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Homegrown Neighbor here. My chicken Whitey, a.k.a. Chickenzilla, has been laying some wonderful eggs lately. Of course, she is a meat chicken, not a layer. I think of her as a “rescue” chicken. Most meat chickens are harvested between just 7 and 10 weeks of age. At over a year old now, Chickenzilla is likely one of the oldest broiler hens alive. But she is a surprisingly good layer, with a big, bad-ass personality to match her im...

Bantam Returns

Homegrown Neighbor

April 5, 2010

Animals, Chickens

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Homegrown Neighbor here: I’ve been busy in the garden and letting the neighbors focus on their book, so I haven’t been blogging in a while. But today something very special happened that I have to share with you, dear readers. My bantam chicken, Debbie, the lighter colored chicken in the photo, disappeared last week. She simply didn’t come in at chicken bed time. This is very unusual. The chickens usually all line up and go...

A Review of Williams-Sonoma’s Agrarian Line

Mr. Homegrown

April 12, 2012

Thoughtstylings

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Last week upscale retalier Williams-Sonoma announced an urban homesteady line of goods they call “Agrarian”. A number of Root Simple readers responded to the news after I linked to a Wall Street Journal article about the Agrarian line. One reader likened the “Agrarian” items to Marie Antoinette’s 18th century cosplay mini-farm. Another hoped that mainstream acceptance of things like chicken coops and beehives might...

Clicker Training Chickens

Mrs. Homegrown

July 9, 2012

Animals, Chickens

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Our new pullets aren’t as used to being handled as were our last flock of hens. And because they don’t come when called, they can’t leave the chicken run to wander the yard. So I’m working on training them. I know I could do more, but for now all I’m doing is taking special treats to them once a day and feeding them while making my chicken call (cheeck-cheeck-cheeck). They’re beginning to associate me and the...

Thoughts On the Egg Recall

Mr. Homegrown

August 24, 2010

Thoughtstylings

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An AP reporter just called to ask for my comment on the recent egg recall. He asked if I thought more people would start backyard chicken flocks. I said yes, adding that I believed that a “distributed” form of agriculture, i.e. many more people keeping small numbers of animals rather than small numbers of professionals in charge of tens of thousands of birds, would lead to greater food safety. Backyard flocks can get infected with s...

Hens Busy Dust Bathing

Mrs. Homegrown

September 19, 2010

Animals, Chickens, Thoughtstylings

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It’s difficult to capture the cuteness of this chicken behavior with a still camera–we really should try to make a video. Anyway, this is called “dusting” or “dust bathing.” The ladies have dug a hole in our yard and are gleefully rolling around in it, flicking loose dirt under their wings and driving it between their feathers. This is an innate behavior and an important part of chicken hygiene. Dusting s...

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Picture Sundays: A Chicken Coop Made From a Trampoline

2008 . . . a year of luxury

Chicken Coop Made From Ikea Parts

Saturday Linkages: Ginger Grating, Food Poisoning and Williams-Sonoma Chicken Coops

Meet My Chickens: the continuing story of Chickenzilla

Bantam Returns

A Review of Williams-Sonoma’s Agrarian Line

Clicker Training Chickens

Thoughts On the Egg Recall

Hens Busy Dust Bathing