"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Caring for chickens can be fun and rewarding, but anyone with a couple of hens knows that it also ...

April Wilkerson builds a DIY chicken coop door that opens automatically, making it easy and convenient to manage your coop. Gabbard fires leaders of intelligence group that wrote Venezuela assessment ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Caring for chickens is not exactly hard, but it’s not easy ...

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 ...

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.

Keeping chickens in predator-prone areas demands serious fortifications, but even the most robust coop can become a hassle without automation. That’s where [lcamtuf] steps in with his Chicken Squisher ...

Custom amenities include large front doors for coop cleaning access. Build a budget-friendly DIY pallet chicken coop from upcycled materials to keep your birds in maximum creature comfort. If you ...

More than 13 million homeowners raise backyard chickens, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and that number is expected to grow over the next several years. You can rear chickens in ...

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 ...