Thursday, May 1, 2014

New Chicken Coop or Chicken Mansion...

We finally finished the new chicken coop.  More to the point, my husband and my dad finished it.  I didn't actually help build this one.  All I did was search google for plans to give us an idea for a design.  My husband took those plans and made the footprint for the structure larger so we would be able to use part of it for a storage area for the chicken feed, our wheel barrow, a ladder, etc.  We still need to build nest boxes, cut out a door for the chickens to come in and out of their run through,construct the fenced run for them to be outside in, and paint the exterior.  Lots of chicken wire to buy.  The chicks are fully feathered now and are still being housed separate from our older hens partially because of a lack of space in out main coop and partially because I want to introduce all the chickens into the new coop at once so no one thinks they have a prior territory claim on it since it will smell unfamiliar to all of them.  We still need to take the small pen with the younger chickens off our back porch and set it next to the run with the big hens so they can see each other and get used to each others scents before we fully introduce them all.  Sometimes we can hear the younger ones chirping to the hens and the hens answering them back.  I hope that means they will all get along.  One of the older hens keeps trying to play the broody hen not wanting to get up off the eggs that have been laid during the day.  My husband keeps suggesting we get a couple ducks to go with them.  I'm not sure where we would house them nor that having ducks is something I want to mess with at all.  Anyway, here's a picture of the (almost) finished coop.  


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