MidRiver “Coop”

Nicollet Island is home not only to a co-op, but also a coop! Island residents Phyllis Kahn, Peat Willcütt, and Leslie Ball (the two latter members of the MidRiver Co-op), banded together over the summer of 2005 to construct a lavish chicken coop in their adjacent back yards.

The coop is currently home to twenty-seven chickens, one rooster, three geese, and ten ducks, and produces about a dozen eggs per day. When the geese and ducks begin laying sometime in the spring of 2007, egg volume should nearly double. Many wonderful and rare breeds of chickens are represented in the coop, including Japanese Phoenix, Barnevelder, Cochin, Maran, Golden- and Blue-Laced Wyandotte, Americuña, Dark Brahma, and more.

Bios of our feathered friends in the coop, with a handy identification guide.

Feeding Tips if you would like to pay the chickens a visit.

Pictures of the coop and some of our favorite feathered friends.

2006.12.30