So I came home from work last night to find this:
This will be my new chicken house - my partner is at home at the moment, and basically I do all the outdoors work and animal care - I used to mow the lawns when we had lawns. I've been muttering about how small our chicken coop is - it was only supposed to be temporary while we built the real coop over summer, but we've had a large number of problems, such as my partner having a hernia. I'm about 5'2", and he's 6'4" so there's a considerable difference in what I can carry around - I shlepped the last twenty bags of concrete at twenty kilos each, but it was pretty hard on me as it was up and down three flights of stairs. He just tosses four meter treated pine poles around like nothing.
Anyway, it looks like he's started - there are the foundations. We're building an over-sized coop on the reasoning that more space is better than too little.
Ignore our neighbour's sheds behind - they haven't been into their back yard in over twenty years and refuse to go into it, so everything there is collapsing under a billion tonnes of tradescantia. We're removing the trad from our property with the use of our chickens, but it will come back forever due to the massive piles of blackberries and trad next door. Our only solution is to try to put up a big fence.
This will be my new chicken house - my partner is at home at the moment, and basically I do all the outdoors work and animal care - I used to mow the lawns when we had lawns. I've been muttering about how small our chicken coop is - it was only supposed to be temporary while we built the real coop over summer, but we've had a large number of problems, such as my partner having a hernia. I'm about 5'2", and he's 6'4" so there's a considerable difference in what I can carry around - I shlepped the last twenty bags of concrete at twenty kilos each, but it was pretty hard on me as it was up and down three flights of stairs. He just tosses four meter treated pine poles around like nothing.
Anyway, it looks like he's started - there are the foundations. We're building an over-sized coop on the reasoning that more space is better than too little.
Ignore our neighbour's sheds behind - they haven't been into their back yard in over twenty years and refuse to go into it, so everything there is collapsing under a billion tonnes of tradescantia. We're removing the trad from our property with the use of our chickens, but it will come back forever due to the massive piles of blackberries and trad next door. Our only solution is to try to put up a big fence.
if theyre not fighting theres no need to get rid of them. I like having them happy together instead of possibly in someones stew pot and they provide extra protection for my flock which roam on a few acres so it is well needed. Although I dont think theres an animal out that my Rodney couldnt protect them against :-D
I have male dogs, a male cat , a fetish with male roosters lol and a son and no daughters.. 
