hat may be the world's largest skep (beehive) chicken coop made from wattles is located in Woodland, Utah, about fifty miles east of Salt Lake City in the foothills of the Uintas Mountains.

n anonymous gentile folk architect made the skep using wattles, flexible tubes of straw enmeshed in a mesh measuring nine inches by twenty-five feet, veggie sausages usually used for soil erosion. After stacking the wattles into the skep form, the outsider architect, busy as a Utah bee, covered the internal braced structure with a polymer stucco and polymer honey-colored paint. Egg laying hens will find their custom built home cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The resident egg keeper will have easy access to the nests.

The fifteen wattles were donated by Sherryn Haynes, President of the CAL Straw Works in Sacramento, California.