Helpful hints for building coops

[CapricornFarm]

Good.

The ones I put in with the stupid hand staplegun are popping. I'm off tomorrow so I'll try the new one then.

Yeah, hand staplers suck except for tacking feed bags over hardware cloth for winter.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yesterday I got another side of the new run fitted with a hardware cloth skirt. So one very short area to finish up. Need more hardware cloth. I need to build a buck pen since I plan to buy a male goat. Always another project or 10 to do!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have been working on the chicken tractor, got 2 ends with wire stapled on.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Doing well on the tractor. Just need to put the 2 doors and back on. I would take photos, but too much junk in that area. I started moving pallets around the back.

 

[Molpet]

I have a 1/4" crown stapler. Perfect for tacking wire down.
I am getting caught up with planting. Now I am going into maintenance mode. Much more relaxing. today I am going to work on the grapes. I weeded them a little, Now they just need a shot of fish tea and need to be tied to the arbor .
hot hot hot, but we are getting enough rain so it is pretty lush and green.
the tomatoes are coming onto the vines already. I have the plants all staked.
had a deer right outside the kitchen window yesterday. I hope she didn't find the beets and beans in the raised beds.
I want to get a dog. The boss says no..
.......jiminwisc.......

Get the dog anyway

 

[Sally PB]

Coop addition built, check.
Growout pen/brooder built into coop, check. (And now housing 3 chicks!)

Now to work on the addition to the run. And buy/install some polycarbonate sheets for a new roof on the existing part.

The addition will expand the run from about 90 sf to 150 sf. Nope, not room for 15 birds in the coop. Gonna limit myself to 9 or 10 chickens, she said, in all seriousness.

 

[jvls1942]

I can shoot up to 1 1/4" staples. The only drawback is that the staples can rust away in a few years. but you can just restaple and go for a few more years..
I am pretty much caught up on planting. Almost time to harvest the garlic. My first crop. I picked the scapes off early.
I got the grapes weeded and tied up. Only 3 of 6 survived . I have a patch of grapes where I can dig out some roots.
Yeah, I could get a dog, if I really want to die. lol
I don't know what kind I would get..
I wonder how Boots is doing up there in the hundred degree temps.?
.......jiminwisc.......

 

[3KillerBs]

I stepped in a fire ant mound yesterday. I'm still finding more bites swelling up today.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I stepped in a fire ant mound yesterday. I'm still finding more bites swelling up today.

Did you take Benadryl?

 

[CapricornFarm]

My playhouse, I made the legs too tall. Maybe I could bury them a bit. The whole thing is crooked. So everything I add is crooked. Lol, chickens won't care.