Little Chicken Coop on the Prairie

05/07/2024

6x6 custom coop design. Super cute. Like always we enjoy building new designs

04/12/2024

12x12 run with a 4x4 coop

04/12/2024

Custom 8x32x6 coop.

12/18/2023

Small duck coop

10/10/2023

10x20 shed,run and coop

07/29/2023

12x30 coop and run. Black pvc coated hardware cloth, solar gable vent, 2 automatic chicken door, pvc watering system and pvc feeder, vinyl planking flooring.

06/16/2023

12x30 coop and run.

04/22/2023

We were blessed to be able to build this amazing designer coop. More pictures to come once we are done.

03/15/2023

8x16 coop and run in one. With a small storage area.

12/13/2022

6x12 coop and run with concrete footing

10/29/2022

Check out this Chicken mansion, it's absolutely gorgeous. Custom made. 10x10 coop with 10x20 run

10/14/2022

6x16 combo coop and run

10/03/2022

6x8 Pigeon coop.

10/03/2022

6x6 coop, natural cedar stain with forest green roof.

10/03/2022

8x16 coop on run in one. Coop area is an 8x8.
Mahogany stain.

09/21/2022

8x48 combo coop and run,storage,stall and pen.
Natural cedar stain.

08/12/2022

6x12 mahogany stain base coop.

07/31/2022

Small pony shed.

06/11/2022

Run add on.

05/09/2022

4x16 base coop with upgraded galvalume metal roofing

04/08/2022

Board and batten coops

03/20/2022

If you are needing a guard dog we have
3 male 2 females
Have been raised with chickens, goats, sheep, horses and cows.

01/28/2022

Another combination porch/goat stall/shed/chicken coop and run. 8x48

12/21/2021

Almost done with this beauty,
12x12 coop/shed with 12x16 run

10/04/2021

6x16 coop, custom stain, clean out door, automatic chicken door, pvc waterer and feeder, hdpe flooring, black metal rood, custom concrete footer.

05/14/2021

Another beautiful duplex coop with small storage unit.

05/11/2021

I was asked to post this on my page. It may help some of you who are struggling to get approved to have back yard Chickens.

Can you please post this like on your page? We need as many people as possible to call this morning for the Chicken Bill to pass! Thank you!

https://www.facebook.com/292920830821/posts/10158999305215822/?d=n

Update: the bill finally passed the House on 5/13 by a vote of 143-1. Please see this post for next steps in the Senate! https://www.facebook.com/.../a.3308935.../10159006452805822/

Today is the day: the full House is scheduled to vote on HB 1686, The Home Food Security Act, aka “The Chicken Bill”. Do not assume passage is a done deal – bills fail all the time at this stage. Your calls are vital today.

HB 1686 says that HOAs or cities can’t prohibit a person from having a front yard or back yard garden; it says that they can’t prohibit people from keeping up to 6 laying hens or 6 rabbits (or a combination of no more than 8 of these animals). It says an HOA can’t stop you from having a cottage food business.

There are some people out there who are against this bill. They are afraid of what it might be like to live next door to 6 chickens or 6 rabbits. Those people need to know that there are reasonable health and safety precautions built into this bill; HOAs and cities can prohibit roosters, make rules about how far an animal structure must be from a neighbor’s house, and make rules about maintaining sanitary conditions and controlling odor and noise. Rabbit droppings are practically odorless, and they are nearly silent animals. (anybody know what sound a rabbit makes? me either.) Chickens p**p and make noises, but there’s no reason to think they’re any noisier (or p**pier) than your average dog. And my dog has yet to give me fresh eggs every morning. This is not a bill about annoying our neighbors. It’s about the fundamental right of food security: a garden. A few rabbits, a few chickens. No roosters.

The cottage food movement was about the basic freedom to produce our own food; this is no different. Texans have a long, proud agricultural history and connection to the land, and we’re a fiercely independent bunch. We shouldn’t be dependent on the grocery store for food during a natural disaster like we just experienced in February. We shouldn’t be begging our cities and HOAs to let us produce our own food on our own land. We’re Texans, dammit.

ACTION:
Find out who your Texas State Representative is by entering your address at this link:
https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home
Click on the name that is “Texas House District ###”. Their phone number starts with 512-463-###X.
OR you can just call the Capitol Switchboard at 512-463-4630 and give the operator your address and ask to be connected to your State Representative.

CALL:
Today is the day for calls, not emails. Call that number above, and when the staff person answers the phone, say: “Hi, my name is _____ and I am a constituent. I am calling to ask Representative to vote YES on HB 1686, the Home Food Security/Chicken Bill that is on today’s calendar.”
The staff member will probably ask your address to confirm that you are a constituent. Feel free to add a couple of short sentences about why the bill is important to you and the district that your Representative represents. It is fast, easy, and makes a difference.

WHEN: The House floor session begins today at 1:00 p.m. In the morning the staff will be busy preparing “floor packets” of information about all the bills on today’s calendar, including a report on constituent support – so if you can, make your call in the morning. If you can’t do it in the morning, go ahead and do it any time during the day! (The House will vote on the bill again tomorrow on “third reading” if it passes today, so calls are still helpful up to tomorrow.)

Read the bill (click the Text tab, choose House Committee Report): https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=HB1686

Watch live here after 1:00: https://www.house.texas.gov/video-audio/

Link to today’s calendar: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/calendars/html/H220210510.htm

They mostly go in order, so it’s pretty easy to follow along.

HB 1686 is a good ways down the daily calendar and there is no way to predict exactly when they will take the vote, but a good guess would be well into the late afternoon or evening.

This is the big mad rush in the legislature, and it will all be over at the end of the month! Let’s pass this bill!