Chicken coop chainsaw massacre...

[cmjust0]

So, I basically had to hurry up and get my chicken coop about 90% done a few weeks ago because they'd WAY outgrown the brooder. We put in one window for light, but just sheathed over the other two window holes we'd framed out.

My plan had been to install the pop-door first and put the other two windows in while the chickens were out one day, but the birds have been pretty hot in the coop lately so the windows got priority....which meant.....

...you guessed it...

While chickens don't necessarily appear to enjoy the sound of a chainsaw being operated inside their coop, they actually came over to investigate what I'd done before I could so much as get out and set the windows in place.

Tough ol'...er, young birds.

 

[Country4ever]

Isn't that funny? My DH can mow around their run and it they are actually interested in the sound. But let me walk into their coop with a bowl of oatmeal and a different dish than they're used to and they smash themselves against the wall, trying to escape!

 

[ChickieNikki]

yup--mine didn't mind dh building the roost with his power drill--one BR kept trying to sit on his head

--but they run squawking when i toss in a fistful of grass clippings!!!!

silly critters!

 

[sangel4you]

we were adding a separation underneath the coop in part of the run last night and unfortunantly with baseball scheds etc we didnt get over to the barn to do ANYTHING until after 8 and it wsa certainly dusk. Well since we're prob picking the new roo up today I HAD to finish it last night but I couldnt figure out how to connect one two by four to the bottom of the OSB floor when it wasnt anywhere near another 2x4. Finally (as its getting pitch black in the barn) DH is like "look, i'm gonna clear the pellets back from above where the board is in the coop and nail down through" Of course I'm flipping out bc it's 6 inches in front of where the girls roost and its wayyyy past bedtime so I figured they would spaz. He only opened half the door and they clucked a little but he cleared the spot and started hammering and they didnt make a peep! Not one oodle of concern for what all that racket was right in front of their faces in the dark! Lol let's just say I was shocked! Yet like u said, I come in the run with a new can of food and they go beserk! weirdos...

 

[SpunkyTheMonkey]

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ours were inside the coop for the last two thirds of the construction and didn't give a rats, but when i tried giving them some spinach they all charged into one corner and stood on top of each other trying to get as far away from it as they could.

it was like a little chicken totem pole...most absurd thing i've seen in a while.

 

[briana1975]

I would do the same thing if you were gonna make me eat spinich.

 

[cmjust0]

Forgot to mention that my drill went nearly dead before I could get the hardware-cloth screen up over the second window, so I just nailed some OSB over it to keep the goats from crashing through..

Our Boer doe was interested in the drill, though.. I removed the bit and pulled the trigger..she sniffed around on it for a minute and then it sorta 'caught' and ran up the bridge of her nose...

That was all it took.

For the next 10 minutes or so, there I stand holding the trigger down on a dying cordless drill while a goat goes to town scratching her big fat noggin on it. She was closing her eyes like "oooooooooooh man this is nice!"...like it was a shiatsu massager or something..

Our goats are all fairly smart, but she's sharp as a tack. Other than being funny sometimes, her intelligence is generally pretty troublesome.