Ikea Hacker has a great chicken coop constructed with parts from an Ikea bunk bed, storage unit, and bottle rack.
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Chicken Whisperer podcasts
Andy Schneider, the Chicken Whisperer (ha!), has a series of podcasts on Blog Talk Radio - today’s is about backyard poultry laws.
How Much Do Eggs Cost?
(My friend Erika is guest blogging today. She’s a freelance writer living near Deception Pass in Washington State. She writes about knitting, chickens, and knitting for chickens at her blog, Redshirt Knitting.)
I recently bought into the city chicken craze and purchased four baby chicks. Out of curiosity last weekend, I did some online research [...]
Posted in Cheap thrills, DIY, Food and cooking Also tagged cooking ahead, food, growing, peeps 23 Comments
Making chicken stock
(Chick pic via Erika at Redshirt Knitting)
Here are the promised instructions for making chicken stock - another easy project, you just throw things together and mostly ignore it for a few hours, totally my kind of cooking.
Put the carcass and drippings from your roasted chicken in a stock pot - mine holds 12 quarts. If [...]
Making roast chicken
I heard on the news that about 50% of people are cooking at home more than they were a year ago, and that cooking classes are really full - lots of people don’t know how to cook at all. It does take some time and planning, but it’s really not rocket science, and we have [...]
Raising chickens in the city
I wish I could have chickens. I think they’re gorgeous, they make some really neat warm broody sounds, and it would seem like free eggs (though of course they wouldn’t really be free). But I am tremendously allergic, and I don’t need the added responsibility, and we have tough city raccoons that regularly raid henhouses. [...]
Posted in DIY, Food and cooking Also tagged city, comfort food, cooking, dinner, growing, urban 3 Comments
Chickens in cities
While Vancouver, BC moves to allow backyard chickens - they’re working on drawing up specific guidelines - Homegrown Evolution says that a Texas town has started enforcing an old ordinance that bans chickens in the city, no matter how much land you have.