Little background info:
9 years ago we moved out of the city and to the "Burg" (Williamsburg). Back and forth to work every day, I have driven by the Mayor of "Bates, Mi" and commented to myself (sometimes out loud) that 1 of these days I would love to get some chickens like they have. Due to a layoff from work in April, I felt the time was right that I could spend putting this together. DH said" not a problem" to ordering a couple of chicks from Send Brothers (local Feed store, who ordered them from Townline) in their last order to them in May. I went to the store with the intent to order about 5-10 chicks and ended up going back a couple days later and ordering more which then brought the total to 20. About a week later when the DH asked if they were on order, what I purchased and when they were due to arrive, I batted my eyelashes and proudly said "Yes, all 20 of them" to which he just smiled and shook his head.
Excitement for the upcoming arrival put me in over gear to talk to anyone I could that had chickens. The Mayor and his wife and Laci (my Lab) human "Grandma Jyl" who turned me on to BYC and all the helpful members here. I spent hours searching through the group and we finally sketched and almost completed "Hef and the Girls" new digs. There are a couple of things inside to do before the move in tonight and the outside still needs the steps, fastening down of the hardware cloth on the one window and the Run to finish this weekend, but they need to have more room than the brooder they are still in. In hindsight, the DH now says it should have been bigger (the batting eyelashes did not work that time) but could easily pop out the one end and add on.
Thanks to everyone on here for the "pestering" during this process and the great answers I have received. Without, this would not have been possible.
9 years ago we moved out of the city and to the "Burg" (Williamsburg). Back and forth to work every day, I have driven by the Mayor of "Bates, Mi" and commented to myself (sometimes out loud) that 1 of these days I would love to get some chickens like they have. Due to a layoff from work in April, I felt the time was right that I could spend putting this together. DH said" not a problem" to ordering a couple of chicks from Send Brothers (local Feed store, who ordered them from Townline) in their last order to them in May. I went to the store with the intent to order about 5-10 chicks and ended up going back a couple days later and ordering more which then brought the total to 20. About a week later when the DH asked if they were on order, what I purchased and when they were due to arrive, I batted my eyelashes and proudly said "Yes, all 20 of them" to which he just smiled and shook his head.
Excitement for the upcoming arrival put me in over gear to talk to anyone I could that had chickens. The Mayor and his wife and Laci (my Lab) human "Grandma Jyl" who turned me on to BYC and all the helpful members here. I spent hours searching through the group and we finally sketched and almost completed "Hef and the Girls" new digs. There are a couple of things inside to do before the move in tonight and the outside still needs the steps, fastening down of the hardware cloth on the one window and the Run to finish this weekend, but they need to have more room than the brooder they are still in. In hindsight, the DH now says it should have been bigger (the batting eyelashes did not work that time) but could easily pop out the one end and add on.
Thanks to everyone on here for the "pestering" during this process and the great answers I have received. Without, this would not have been possible.
