The "Chicken Ranch" at Rasor Road

     This old cabin was build in the early 1900s as far as we can tell. It has been a great spot to stop with the kids and enjoy lunch while playing in the sand at Rasor Road. Many of us have enjoyed this old cabin for many years. When we first found it in about 1978 or so, it was in pretty good shape. There is a little chicken coup off to the right of it and this little structure had four walls, a front door, a roof and a little cut out at the bottom for your hands to get the eggs out of. It had some salt cedar twigs in there that the chickens would roost on, then drop their eggs onto a little pile of sand and they would roll down and out the trap door. We thought we would name her "The Chicken Ranch".... and the name stuck!

     Below are the last photos taken before NPS put up the Rasor Road Fence separating the BLM Rasor Road OHV area from the NPS Devils Playground preserve. This area is now off limits to OHV's and I am not sure if we can legally get to it in a street legal vehicle due to the way they word the law as "Travel on marked roads only". There is only one road/trail that goes to it and the new fence put up in October of 2011 cuts the road in half.

ENJOY THE PHOTOS OF
THE CHICKEN RANCH

R.I.P
Chicken Ranch