Apartment Therapy Profile

20 February 2013 Categories: Backyard Chickens Blog

Apartment Therapy Profile

Apartment Therapy, one of my favorite web sites and a great chronicler of daily design, did an interview and profile of me and Handcrafted Coops in their Meet The Maker series. If you’d like to know more about me, my design background and the origins of the Portable Chicken Coop you can head over there [...]

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Resources for Raising Chickens

18 February 2013 Categories: Backyard Chickens Blog

Whether you are just starting, or well into your journey raising chickens, the following Resources will assist you with a range of supplies and useful information.

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Handcrafted Coops Named Top New Home Product by This Old House Magazine

19 October 2012 Categories: Backyard Chickens Blog

Handcrafted Coops Named Top New Home Product by This Old House Magazine

  We learned today that one of our favorite magazines, This Old House, named our portable chicken coop a Top 100 Best New Home Product of 2012. Along with thousands of happy customers and their backyard hens, This Old House loves our chicken coop design! See both sizes of our Portable chicken coops

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The Intelligence of Chickens – An Animal Behaviorist Speaks

19 January 2012 Categories: Backyard Chickens Blog

Animal Behaviorist, Jonathan Balcombe, speaks about the little-known natural intelligence of chickens. Chickens have an unusually sophisticated communication system. They have some 25 to 30 calls, that scientists have discovered, that communicate specific messages to the birds they share their chicken coop with. Listen to this series of bird calls.

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