I'm going on an adventure!

[RoseHawke]

I call this my "flat pack" coop.

I put the rafters together the other day, and the Mister and I tag-teamed on cutting the studs to length. He unloaded them from the truck then handed them to me to cut on my miter saw.

The rafters are not perfect, of course after I put them all together I thought of the way I should have done it to be sure that they would all match. Oh, well. I don't think there's more than 1/8" variance, maybe a 1/4". I can work with that although it will be a pain as what will probably happen is that I'm going to end up trimming the meticulously laid out birds' mouths so that the rafters will sit nicely on the top plates and the peak will all be in line.

 

[RoseHawke]

Managed to get a half-way decent pic of Pippin. He's just at 12 weeks and starting to get his "big boy" feathers.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Managed to get a half-way decent pic of Pippin. He's just at 12 weeks and starting to get his "big boy" feathers.

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Sort of a “broody cockerel” look.

I like it!

 

[RoseHawke]

Sort of a “broody cockerel” look.

I like it!

That's his "James Dean" look . He thinks he's fierce even though the only ones he can dominate are the bantams and Falco is iffy at best even though they keep challenging each other. He usually comes out on top, but that's subject to change.

At the moment when I let them out in the morning he dashes out and makes a feint at my toes. It's cute now, but I don't really want even a floofy bantam terror so he got picked up this morning and put on the fan shelf where I looked him in the eye and told him he's terribly cute but I'm top dog thankyewverymuch. He seemed to take it to heart but we'll see.