sorry for the long delay, been super busy. We just finished putting in a large arbor over the gate entrance to the chicken area, built two raised planter boxes on either side to grow jasmine that will grow all over the arbor. pics to come soon.
Please do! I love looking at others coops, so many great ideas that people have!
MaddBaggins- sounds like she is the lowest in the pecking order, can you give her her own lower roost? Is that a posibility?
After I posted those pictures of the composter, I looked more carefully in the composter and that wyandotte (Jezebel) you see in the right hand compost bin, laid an egg. lol
Nah, just one coop. We started with the stain when we built it. A mahagony color if I remember.... then Lisa decided that it was just not fitting into the color scheme of the rest of the yard, so we painted it some sort of light moss and blue color. Its only been painted for a couple of weeks...
Chickens can hop and leap pretty good, so my lower roost is about 20 inches off the coop floor, and they use it only to leap onto the higher roost, which is about 2.5 feet. I use a mixture of spdz and de, and its a very flour like consistancy. just on the poop drawer, and it works great, no...
Well thank you. If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask. Not that I am an expert by any means. If my pics are unclear in anyway, and you wan't a better view of something for reference puposes, i'd be glad to snap some more detailed ones if you want. The way I constructed the coop may...
Its been an educational adventure. Thanks for all the kind words. We started out with the idea of backyard garden oasis and chickens. We built the coop first. Then we started re-deisigning, re-landscaping the backyard. All this work by two people, doiityourselfers. Then the chicks came. No big...