BWAA, HA, HA! You would think that after 15 years, the Hubs would know better than to dare me...

[coolcanoechic]

Have you checked to see what your town ordinance is for chickens? It sounds like you are in a densly populated neighborhood.
Also, I would love to see some ''before" pictures of your project!

 

[AnotherKim]

Yes, we are allowed to have 24 hens in the city. I think I'll start with five. I haven't been able to find much on having goats, other than a Manure Maintanance Ordinanance. I'll have to call the city on that one. We had pygmy goats a few years ago. My oldest daughter was in 4-H. We never checked the laws then. We just kept out fingers crossed that all would be well.

Off to work. I meant to get up early and be finished before the heat got bad. Yeah, right. Me up early?

 

[coolcanoechic]

That's awesome! Most on here say their city only allows five. Good for you! I think you will have a grand time with your project and feel some great satisfaction from what you are tying to accomplish!
Best of luck to you with your new endeavor!!!!!!!

 

[AnotherKim]

" We are the champions my friend. And we'll keep on fighting until the end." The shed is FINISHED!!!! Well. it's all cleaned out at least, lol. I even hosed it down. Just don't look at my backyard. Holy cow! It looks like a white trash explosion back there. Tomorrow I will tackle cleaning everything for the yard sale and organizing the rest. Pictures will be taken as soon as soon as the yard is cleaned up. I'm too embarrassed to show that. It's bad enough that my neighbors can see it. My kids were an amazing help. At least my son was. My 8y/o daughter bailed on us after about 15 minutes. Then my oldest daughter came over to see. I think I shocked her, lol.

 

[theoldchick]

My hubby learned long ago not to dare me. He's even tried reverse psychology on me. Didn't work either.

 

[Trefoil]

It sounds like you have the start of an excellent barn/coop. How lucky you are. Hopefully you get rich enough on your garage sale to finance the new roof. I don't remember how far it is from your house, but running water would be a great improvement. Its not really hard, just manual work (easy unless you are the one doing it).

 

[Stumpy]

Subscribed!

Waiting for that first before photo.

 

[AnotherKim]

Trefoil, the running water will be a hose from the house to the pen, lol. TheOldChick, it's good to know I'm not the only one.My husband is a therapist. You'd think he would know better. No new roof yet. My son is going to NY with the Performing Arts Group from his high school. Anything I make from the yard sale goes toward that.

I think we all need a penicillian shot after this.

Stumpy, I hope to get some after the yard sale.

 

[Candyhl]

We live in an old house, built in the late '50's. There is an old brick "garage" in the back yard. I would say it's at least 500 sq ft. The garage doors were removed and boarded up before we bought the house about 13 years ago. It has a regular door and a bunch of windows, and would make the perfect barn.

Crazy. I've been scratching my head for the last month, trying to figure out what to use for a coop and a goat pen, and this garage has been in front of my face the entire time.The problem is, it's full of junk that we don't use! I mean, almost floor to ceiling full. We've just been to lazy to clean it out. Hello! McFly!

Now, I must say, my husband has NOT been into the whole "barnyard in the backyard" thing, at all.He thinks he can just pretend I'm not going to do this. Ha, ha. He should know by now that once I set my mind to something, it's going to happen. So, I told him I am going to clean out "the shed" this week, and he laughed at me. i told him that once it was clean, I was getting my chickens. He laughed harder. The jokes on him. I'll take that as a dare, bwaa, ha, ha. Make that a "double dog dare". Plus, the kids are out of school this week. LOL. They're going to hate me by the end of the week.

So. This is the beginning of my coop "design". Stay tuned.

Good for you! i got laughed at as well. He was all "n who's gonna do this" and "who's gonna do that" to which my replies were a very stern "I AM". Needless to say, I ordered 5 chicks to start out with, He isn't laughing anymore. LOL
I'll be watching for your updates!

 

[AnotherKim]

I feel a little bad now for making my husband look like a butthead. He really is a great guy. I showed him the shed when he came home tonight, and he was genuinely impressed. He had expected that it would take weeks, or at least days! Even though I spread it over two days, the clean-up honestly only took about four hours. Anyway, he asked what I planned to do with it, now that they shed was clean. I tried, in vain, not to roll my eyes at him, and calmly told him that I plan to get chickens and goats. Once I have some money, that is. He actually wasn't irritated. He even talked about what we were going to do about the roof, before I get animals. Huh? Go figure. lol

A funny side note: When my older daughter stopped by, my 8 y/o told her that she was going to be selling lemon aide at the yard sale. "And Courtney,"Mia says. "All of the lemon aide money is going to be mine for the guinea pig I'm going to get". And Courtney, who is so like me, says, "Eww. Why would you want a stinky, noisy, guinea pig? Get a rabbit instead". LOL. Like mother, like daughter. I even found her "bunny crossing" and "Pygmy crossing" signs from the Fair, in that shed. We were trying to figure out what to do with them.