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Yesterday, my friend Heather dropped by with her two kids. Heather and her husband are in the process of building an urban chicken coop, and when she asked me last week where she could find some chickens, I offered to barter with her. I ended up trading her 3 of our chickens, for $30 in Read More >>
Monkey Boy and The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird were rather busy this past weekend. First on the summer project list was to build a new chicken yard for our backyard flock. Ricky the Raccoon had made 3 appearances over the previous 2 days and so we knew he was casing the joint for Read More >>
Yesterday, The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I attended the Tacoma Urban Chicken Coop Tour. There were 10 different coops located on the map we were given, and we ended up visiting 5 of them. The artfully designed chicken coop with the living roof you see above, totally stole the show. The owner Read More >>
One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Heidi wanted to share her new chicken coop SHE BUILT HERSELF {okay, so maybe she had a little help}. Holy Chicken Scratch Heidi, your coop looks better than mine! Wanna trade? Seriously, you did an amazing job. Well done! Here is Heidi’s story… Last Sunday (Fathers Day) we moved Read More >>
If you are in the Seattle/Tacoma area and own chickens or have been thinking about raising chickens in your backyard, you’ll want to cough up $5 to take a tour of local chicken abodes this weekend. I went on the Urban Coop Tour last year and came home with a bunch of ideas for the Read More >>
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