I spent countless hours on YouTube, reading online PDF’s as well as paper books (like Ussery’s the Home Grown Flock), and attending the three-unit mini-series I set up with the Boston Food Forest Coalition keeping back yard chickens. Our design result is a combination of clever things other people have done to make chicken-care better, with some modifications of our own. In another post we looked at some design requirements; this post goes through the actual build.