The Chookie McMansion

Great article.
Fantastic coop and an entertaining read. Thanks for sharing.
I love the prose for this article!
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Beautiful build! Very thorough pictures and plans! Very entertaining story
Brilliant article and video - wish you'd done it two years earlier as it would have helped me :)

Can't believe you did it in 7 weeks - mine took me close to a year (though there was a bit of procrastination going on!)
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kmart60
kmart60
There was a covid lockdown on, remember. No ballroom dancing, so we had to do something to entertain ourselves.😊
An excellent story, well told, and great pictures too. I hope there's a sequel. :)
kmart60
kmart60
I did start a short story (not a "War and Peace" effort like this thing), about how we hacked the ghastly pre-fab to make it useful, but got distracted by life, hehe. I'll finish it off. I'm amazed anyone would ask for more after the slog through the above! 🤣
So funny :D
Brilliantly told... Definitely more please ☺️
kmart60
kmart60
Watch this space... 🙂
Beautiful coop!

And I love how with every new passage of your hilarious coop-building story, the number of the future inhabitants grew.

Can't wait for the sequel, you are a true story teller! Thank you for sharing! :yesss:
kmart60
kmart60
Chicken math is real! It also kinda happened with babies - I only wanted one child, the boy wanted 6 (😧), we ended up with 3.🤣
What a beautiful expose′ on the adventure of building a hospitable coup. I was thoroughly engrossed in your story the entire time (I couldn't stop reading it).

Thank you so much for this delightful yarn about you and your spouse's adventure in chicken coup building. ❤️😊
kmart60
kmart60
You are too kind to my demented ramblings. Thank you very much. 😊
this is a very pretty coop nice and stylish:):woot
kmart60
kmart60
Thanks for your so kind words.😊
What an enjoyable story, thank you! Your coop and run look like mine, just a little bigger. My husband too, researched Carolina Coops quite a bit before we started to build. Your girls are very lucky indeed!
kmart60
kmart60
Ooh, post some pictures, pleeeaaase.
Your writing style is wonderful and hilarious! A very enjoyable read with some really great material ideas especially. Kudos!
kmart60
kmart60
You're very sweet. I'm glad there was something useful in there as well as my ravings.😊
I need this coop! It's gorgeous!
kmart60
kmart60
Easy... come to Australia, and buy my property so I can go live closer to my grandbabies!
Excellent coop & run and the article was entertaining to read.
kmart60
kmart60
Thank you for your kind words.😊
Oh boy. Great looking coop so well worth the effort! Our story is so much like yours- tried with the biggest pre-fab that could be posted, marvelled that anyone thought one chicken- let alone 8 stated on the box - would ever want to live in there - so built our own. The local hardware man believed for a long while we were extending our house but nope, just chicken house. Built the largest allowed without planning permission. Since you have an orchard, I suggest you look into ducks too. Their poo on the sugar cane mulch (which we have to use too since hemp doesn’t seem to exist in Aus) seems to go well on the trees without crazy long compost time. It’s a pleasure to scoop out their house for our nut tree orchard. And if you get drakes the pre-fab prison makes a very handy drake gaol!! Your coop looks amazing and you must be so proud that you actually just stuck in and did it.
kmart60
kmart60
I know right! Who would put full size chookies in those things! We've used it to break the Sussex when they go broody, only one in there at a time, and it feels so cruel.
We did find a supplier of hemp, but it's horrendously expensive, so we've stayed with the sugar cane mulch, which we use masses of (lucky we get a Hammer Barn employee discount). I don't know how long it would go for as we're pulling it out for the garden every second month, but the henhouse always smells like molasses, not poop, haha!
I would love some Indian Runner ducks, but the boy is not keen on ducks. I'm working on him...
This is a fantastic write-up. I am impressed with how well the boy and girl did at constructing a coop from scratch.
kmart60
kmart60
Thanks. The boy is pretty handy. The girl just follows orders, and generally tidies up after him. And occasionally administers band-aids and sympathy.🤣
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