If you keep chickens, you know that they seem to try and make their water as dirty as possible. Typical chicken waterers depend on upside-down reservoirs that refill a trough as the birds drink the water. Chicken droppings, dirt, bedding, and other debris finds its way into the trough. Additionally, our old one held about … More DIY Clean Chicken Waterer
We’re in the process of moving into our permanent location and we’ll be limiting our posts to short entries. Please bear with us. Last week I converted a small shed connected to our garage into a chicken coop, and I wanted to post some before-and-after photos. Inside the coop, I’ve added a quick roost, a … More Finished Temporary Chicken Coop
Here is a simple construction project to build a stand to hold beehives. It is another in the Low Tech Design series. You can find the library of Low Tech Designs under the “Publications” tab. … More Low Tech Design — Beehive Stand
Yesterday we published plans for our first simple coop design. You can get the PDF of the plans on that post or in the “Low Tech Designs” page under the “Publications” tab, above. Here I’d like to share my thoughts and photos of my build of the simple coop prototype. This has slight modifications from … More DIY Project — Simple Coop
This post introduces the “Low Tech Design” series. In short, this will be blueprints and instructions for building low tech products yourself. They are designed to be built by normal people with regular tools and skills. Obviously humanity is diverse and we can’t account for the variety of skill sets out there, but if you … More Low Tech Design — Simple Coop