With a total footprint of 6 by 16 feet, the coop anatomized below, based on a $3,000 model from mypetchicken.com, fulfills that function for at least ten chickens and incorporates a generous run for ...
When Bay Area designers Kevin McElroy and Matthew Wolpe of Just Fine Design/Build unveiled their mod chicken coop Chick-in-a-Box at a 2010 Maker Faire, they thought they were on to something. Chickens ...
Perched above the ivy that grows behind Matthew Wolpe's North Oakland home sits a tree house in miniature. With large glass windows, an aluminum truss roof and a spiral staircase leading up to a ...
This mobile chicken coop design proves to be surprisingly effective. Why is Washington acting like the U.S. is in a recession ...
In Episode 201 of Mother Earth News and Friends, Jessica Mitchell and Kenny Coogan talk about the essential features every coop needs to keep your chickens safe as well as some ways to build your ...
After moving to a house in the country, we decided that we’d like to get some chickens. We needed a coop that would keep predators out, shelter the birds from the elements, and provide a convenient ...
How hard could it be to make a chicken coop door that can be configured to open and close automatically using a straightforward interface? That’s the question that [Jeff Sandberg] set out with, after ...
About a quarter-century ago, American farmer Joel Salatin pioneered a portable chicken coop that allowed chickens to graze on new pastures every day. At the time, most chickens were crammed in ...
Their goal with the competition is to raise awareness about their work with AIDS orphans in Uganda while promoting the local food/urban chicken keeping movements in the US. Winning designs will be ...