This interesting design is the winner of our contest! The inventive system requires a simple mechanism and a counterweight which are connected to the roost, making the chickens' weight do the work.

Although we’ve featured many chicken-related hacks here, this chicken coop features a solar-powered door to save one from having to open up the coop in the morning. As [chrisatronics] puts it “keeping ...

Discover how Mark from Self Sufficient Me solves the problem of pest birds—ibises and crows—stealing food and eggs from his ...

Join Mark from Self Sufficient Me as he reviews the Feed-O-Matic automatic treadle feeder, a popular rodent-proof solution ...

Chickens can be useful critters to have on an urban homestead, seeing as how they're almost like little egg-making machines that run on food scraps. OK, that's a bit of a stretch, as keeping chickens ...