Rebekah's Chicken Coop

Posted 06/22/10 • Last updated 06/22/10 • 3059 views • 0 comments

Hello All!

I'm a Jersey-based mother of three to Winona-12, Calvin-10, and Jack-7, wife to a wonderful and talented husband-Justin, guardian of two cats-Chloe and Teddy and one turtle-Fleishman. I work with Justin for our photography business Borucki.com and tend to our family and mini-farm. I'm a fairly new and extremely excited chicken enthusiast.

the family

An entry from our website RebekahandJustin.com:

My dad and I have a long history of building wacky projects together, so when I decided this week that I wanted backyard chickens I knew he would be down to rally for the cause. All it took was a quick phone call, and my dad and I were in Home Depot the very next day picking up supplies. We also picked up some much needed donated wood from my neighbor, Lauren {yay for Lauren!}. As a little girl I had a playhouse on stilts with a wrap-around deck, countless rebuilt roadside bicycles, homemade kites, and wooden slingshots and rubberband guns {and to my dismay, so now do my young boys thanks to their Grandpop}. I am, of course, photographing and taking video of the progress of my quest for backyard "peeps". Here's a little bit of Day 1 of the construction. The Facebook album can be viewed by clicking here or, if you're not on Facebook, check out the Flickr album here.

In the process of doing research on raising backyard chickens in a suburban environment, I've found a lot of great resources online. Here are just a few great sites:

the coop at the end of Day 1

shoddy artist's rendering of the proposed final product

UPDATE 06/28/09: We just finished the painting phase of the chicken coop project and we're just about ready to move the [future] chickens inside. The roof installation comes next, and then we'll move it into the old raspberry patch in the garden. Finally, we'll decorate it in a Mexican "Dia de los Muertos de Pollo" theme inspired by a picture Calvin drew when he was 5: