Helpful hints for building coops

[jvls1942]

Progress!
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You GO girl !!!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Roof is on, no falling off the ladder or the roof. The welded wire roof for the first run is on, but still needs the 2 pieces lashed together. And i need to put some wood around that tree to tack the wire to.
The hardware cloth is on the front. I need to build 3 more nest boxes. Tomorrow i hope to work on the coop divider.

 

[CapricornFarm]

And the frame for the divider is done, hope to tack the wire on tomorrow. And possibly build the last panel for run #2. Maybe even install the window and hang the door, weather permitting.

 

[aart]

Got rid of my serial broody yesterday....gave her to a hatchaholic.
I will miss her beautiful dark brown eggs(when shes lays them),
but not the constant extra chores(and lack of eggs) when she's broody.

 

[jvls1942]

good morning,
I passed my heart stress test last night.
I watched the packer/bears game.
the packers always make it a cliff hangar..

today I am going to peel and core apples for a pie
last night I adjusted and sharpened the apple peeler/corer/slicer machine.
Annie will make the crust. I should learn how to do that, too. I have done a few in the past, but hers always seem to turn out better than mine..
......jiminwisc....

ETA: I sliced up about 9 cups of apples. Annie has the crust ready to go into the oven, soon it will smell wonderful in the house.
I mowed under the apple and pine trees. no grass, just broad leaved plants that look like rhubarb.. very juicy and wet when pulverized with the mower..
some day I will cut all of those low hanging pine branches off.
......jiminwisc.....

 

[CapricornFarm]

I worked on the coop again today. I finished attaching the wire to the divider, cut a hole for a window, cut a hole for a pop door, and worked on securing the run where the tree goes up through the wire roof of the run.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Last night i cut shutters for the front of the coop and all of the pieces for a third nest box. One to go.

 

[aart]

Last night i cut shutters for the front of the coop and all of the pieces for a third nest box. One to go.

How close are you to the coast, Cap?
Scary stuff!

 

[jvls1942]

I don't think it matters how close one is to the coast. all of those coastal states will be rained on real hard way inland..
today I got a glimmer of ambition. I trimmed the two plum trees severely .. took of any low branches that brushed my head when I rode under with the lawn mower. now I have a couple of piles of brush to haul to the burn pile. then I mowed about a third of the grass.
that's about it..
.......jiminwisc.....

 

[CapricornFarm]

How close are you to the coast, Cap?
Scary stuff!

We are a long ways inland, near Gretna VA. No worries.