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.

One of the pitfalls of modern engineering is that it’s entirely possible to end up in a situation where a product or solution ...

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 ...

After 10 years of experimenting with various chicken coop designs, I’ve developed an efficient mobile chicken coop that is ...

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 ...