The chicken class is this saturday. I promise i'll scan the plans in and send them along as soon as I can. The thing is though.. i can't imagine I'll learn anything extraordinary in this class that you can't figure out just by having chickens. The one thing I'm sure will be in it is how you have to build a contained yard (with chicken wire) that continues underground, UNDER the enclosure... just to keep the foxes/racoons/skunks out of the hen house during the evenings. Racoons are a big thing here in boulder creek, and will dig under fences so you have to make sure any hole they dig is in vain. Can't imagine the critters you have.. but I'm sure people lose birds all the time.

Did you know in Santa Cruz county, it's illegal to own roosters? You can own chickens..but not roosters. Talk about sexism!