Chickens seem happy. One thing I forgot and should've done prior to moving the chicks back to the coop was to put hardware cloth over the opening between rafters. I had a chick escape last night through one. All these months of building a safe predatory proof coop 30 seconds after locking them in one escaped.

Chickens seem happy. One thing I forgot and should've done prior to moving the chicks back to the coop was to put hardware cloth over the opening between rafters. I had a chick escape last night through one. All these months of building a safe predatory proof coop 30 seconds after locking them in one escaped.

Slapped a coat of paint on yesterday just to finally get some color on it. I had went to Lowes last week and was going buy regular red and white barn paint, however I found 5 gallons of Valspar latex satin in an almost identical red color. Someone had it mixed or something so it was on clearance. Normally $180.00, I paid $50.00. Then just a gallon of white for all the trim.

View looking in from the storage area. Put a spring on the interior door to help keep it secure and a few other odd and end things.

Hung a 5 gallon bucket with horizontal nipples. Never used those before, only the vertical ones. See how that works. My large gravity fed waterer is broken right now. Pipe burst after the roof blew off.
Ended up placing a large funnel upside down on top of the bucket to keep them from roosting on it. Should do the job. Time will tell.
Dust bathing box contains a mix of dirt, wood ash and DE. Used my litter pooper scooper to filter out rocks, chunks of woods, sticks, etc. to make it as fine and fluffy as possible.

Added sand to the poop boards. Two packs of bedding for the coop. Made a wooden box a while back for dust bathing.

Chickens seem happy. One thing I forgot and should've done prior to moving the chicks back to the coop was to put hardware cloth over the opening between rafters. I had a chick escape last night through one. All these months of building a safe predatory proof coop 30 seconds after locking them in one escaped.

sgtjmc33
Mar 27, 2017

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