Welcome Thelma and Nadia! - April 24, 2011
We finally started getting chickens! An opportunity presented itself to get two one year old layers, and we took them. Here they are getting acclimated in our fenced in back yard while we hurried to finish the Hen Shack (at least finished enough for...
Nearly finished
April 24, 2011
Yet more progress....
April 18, 2011
Progress......
April 10, 2011
We are making progress! We have the foundation and frame for the coop nearly finished. We hope to have the coop ready in about 3-4 days!
A New Adventure for this Hippie Chick: Chickens and...
We are nearly finished our coop (converted part of an old horse shed....)! Just some finishing touches to do as we have time. An opportunity came up to get our first two chickens this past week, so we went ahead and got them! The White Leghorn is "Nadia" and the Rhode Island Red is "Thelma"...
Hi everyone, here are more pics of our chicken coop building progress. More pics are on my BYC page at https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=84008
Dee
Hey everyone - we just bought our materials for our coop! We are converting a portion of an old horse shed into the coop and run. Here are photos of our clean-up in progress. We hope to have it all completed in the next week!
Shed before clean-up:
After clean-up:
Unfortunately our 70 degree weather from yesterday turned to around 30 and several inches of snow! so we have put off for another week our chicken coop preparation work.......sign.......patience, patience.......
We are clearing out our old horse shed this weekend to prep for our chicken coop - yay! We anticipate either having our first chickens either next weekend or the weekend after that. I will post pics as we progress.
Hi everyone! Thank you for the warm welcome! (I'm feeling the chicken luv.....).
I've been doing a LOT of reading this week and have gotten as far as staking out a place for our coop. Very excited. Each day comes closer to getting my chickens! I am learning a lot already from the few days...