Here's the tent trailer that Jan converted to a chicken coop. The trailer has mainly been modified with cedar slab. The farmers are able to take the roof off when they want to clean out the coop.

These boxes are where the chickens lay eggs and store their fishing gear. The coop was featured in Permaculture Activist and can be accessed from the Ecoreality site: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Chicken_tractor

Here's another coop Jan designed, this one much more nimble. The screen came out of a BC-owned art musueum--where they used 9' x 14' pieces for hanging two dimensional art. Jan picked up 14 of the stainless steel panels. After playing with different designs, he chose a 30-60-90 triangle and made the bottom 4 ft wide--the size of his garden beds. He uses them in the spring in the garden, where his birds fertilize the soil and hunt cutworms. The design isn't quite finished--he plans to add nesting boxes and a roosting box that can be shut tight against predators.

Next Jan took us over to the goats' side of the campground, where they live in an abode Jan Frankensteined out of an old carport and a fifth wheel trailer.

An extra treat: the goats had elected to abandon their plans for the beach due to bad weather so they were home and invited us to have a beer on the front porch. They then ate the cans so we didn't even have to worry about recycling. By the way, see that milking platform at right, to be featured in another post? Something looked vaguely familiar about it...

That wheel! That wheel looks so familiar!

It was a Bag Boy! From the same style golf cart I used to build my garden cart...

Moving on. Here's the front of the coop built by George Wright at Castor River Farm. Better for George to describe it: "It is made out of used SIPS (structural insulated panel system). Water stays liquid even in the dead of winter with no heat except 100 hens. I move this every two weeks in the summer and normally pull it up to the greenhouse in the winter. I like it because the hens don't have to get used to a new home twice per year-- their home is permanent yet mobile! I fill the blue barrel from the outside every three weeks or so in the winter on a nice day. I have yet to side it with some board and batten siding, but it works for now. I remove the plastic on the windows in the spring and put it back on in the fall: two layers of vapour barrier. The area/space under the sloped part is accessed from the outside and is for starting chicks. One light in there keeps it warm. Old wagon gears can be found cheap, flat tires are not worth fixing, just hook up to tractor to move. There is a hanging waterer, feeder. Also 5 gallon buckets cut off serve as oyster shell dispensers."

Winterized coop.

Inside the coop. Thanks again George.