Hi from the UK

[NWChicks]

from WA!

 

[Lydia&Andrew]

You may regret asking for pics!!! ....... Here's our "photo diary" to date!!!
(The run is made as much as possible from reclaimed timber ...... we cut down scaffold boards to make the frame, which seemed to take forever!!! We cheated with the coop and bought one from eBay. I wouldn't rely on it being fully fox-proof on it's own, but housed within the run it's just perfect!!) Hope you like what we've done!!

JUST GETTING STARTED

THE COOP IN PLACE

STARTING TO TAKE SHAPE

FIRST WIRE FITTED

SERVICE DOOR FITTED

ROOF FITTED

LOCKED AND BOLTED

CHICKENS MOVE IN

MOISHA

CHERYL COLE & BLUEBELL

BLUEBELL

CHERYL COLE AND BLUEBELL

MOISHA'S GREEN TIPPED FEATHERS

CHERYL COLE

MOISHA

JEMIMA & MOISHA

JEMIMA & MOISHA

JEMIMA

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

Your coop looks great! Very neat and clean. Nice chickens as well.

 

[bella1210]

from ct

 

[weesy68]

Hi from Stratford CT. I'm a fellow Brit (Somerset) who's been here since 1991.

 

[chicmom]

Hello Lydia and Andrew and

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Orpingtons are so beautiful! Good choice! Sounds like you've done your research and are ready to become chick-a-holics like the rest of us.......I would just keep an eye on that mean hen......right now, they are probably still establishing the pecking order. You might want to consider adding one more food dish in a separate location in the coop so that the younger ones can go to it if Gemima is being a bully.

Anyhow, good luck with your new adventure! I'm from the USA in Ohio!

 

[Lydia&Andrew]

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WoooHoooooooo ....... I know where you live!?!?! (I'm not saying that in a sinister kind of way!!!)

My sister and my Mum both live in Northford, so just down the road from you!!

 

[Lydia&Andrew]

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That's what we'd thought ....... I guess we should do it sooner rather than later!! Thanks for the advice. (We've been sneaking in and hand feeding the little ones, but one (Bluebell) is clearly putting on more weight than Cheryl Cole, so we're keeping a close eye on her. Maybe it was a mistake naming her Cheryl Cole ....... if she's following her namesake's example, she'll be a skinny bird all her life!!!

 

[Highlander]

Lydia&Andrew :

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That's what we'd thought ....... I guess we should do it sooner rather than later!! Thanks for the advice. (We've been sneaking in and hand feeding the little ones, but one (Bluebell) is clearly putting on more weight than Cheryl Cole, so we're keeping a close eye on her. Maybe it was a mistake naming her Cheryl Cole ....... if she's following her namesake's example, she'll be a skinny bird all her life!!!