Summer 2021 Update
One year and a half later we still love our Orpington girls and enjoy making their home as fun and comfortable as possible.
We just finished installing cedar shutters that we build repurposing the salvages cedar planks from the original building.
We installed a quiet but powerful fan in the covered run that runs with a thermo cube and similarly two fans inside the coop. So far they do the job, coop is quite cool during the day even if we keep the windows closed.
Landscaping is a work in progress. We spread a horse pasture seed mix since we also have horses that sometimes share that space too and the girls seem to enjoy it, particularly the clover.
3 new girls joined our flock this year. They are one Buff, one Chocolate and one Lavender Orpington. We raised them from one day olds in our basement and they are now gradually being integrated. So far we are offering them a run-to hideaway in the run which is a little cumbersome but gets the job done.
4. Lastly, I couldn’t help myself and forced my husband to install a small AC unit after I spent a couple nights checking in the girls every hour during the heat wave. It works great and we use only when the girls suffer the temperature. But mostly it gives me peace of mind.
We just finished installing cedar shutters that we build repurposing the salvages cedar planks from the original building.
We installed a quiet but powerful fan in the covered run that runs with a thermo cube and similarly two fans inside the coop. So far they do the job, coop is quite cool during the day even if we keep the windows closed.
Landscaping is a work in progress. We spread a horse pasture seed mix since we also have horses that sometimes share that space too and the girls seem to enjoy it, particularly the clover.
3 new girls joined our flock this year. They are one Buff, one Chocolate and one Lavender Orpington. We raised them from one day olds in our basement and they are now gradually being integrated. So far we are offering them a run-to hideaway in the run which is a little cumbersome but gets the job done.
4. Lastly, I couldn’t help myself and forced my husband to install a small AC unit after I spent a couple nights checking in the girls every hour during the heat wave. It works great and we use only when the girls suffer the temperature. But mostly it gives me peace of mind.
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loooove the picture overload.
Love the attention to detail and your ability to be able to repurpose an existing structure. Glad no injuries occurred with evicting the critter and stepping in someone's former underground den. 
