lvie
Songster
Good Morning Still and thank you Bogtown! I am excited about re-doing my gardens now that I see your new thread!!!! I took some pictures but with this time of year I doubt I will get much done the rest of this year. Need to put the vegetable garden to rest yet. This will be my second winter as a chickener.
This is the front of what I have for a coop and run. You can see that I have begun the winterizing procedure of covering it with plastic - which is suppose to be clear -
To the right is the nesting boxes (there are six for 14 birds) and under it is the bathing facilities. We will go around to the back of the coop next. This is a work in progress. This coop sits between the garage on the right and a two-story storage building on the left.
Here we have walked to the back of the coop/run. You see the garage on the left and the two-story shed on the right. So the coop narrows at the back with a latched door into the covered run. I have fenced in a outdoor run just out side that coop door, hence the green stakes. It is covered with wire so that the hens stay in instead of 'flying the coop' and I have tried latching various mediums for a cover but have been unsuccessful thus far in obtaining the look I want.
Okay - some (most) of the girls coming to greet me. The second is that front enclosed area where the afternoon sun shines in. It has a dirt floor (as is true of the whole run) and this portion is covered in pine needles which they absolutely love! Then there is the little coop that I use for their convenience of laying eggs in. There are six nesting boxes and they usually use two of them. ????. Whatever. Under it, behind that ladder is the dusting box. It is a mix of black dirt, landscaping sand and ash along with some charcoal.
This is the front of what I have for a coop and run. You can see that I have begun the winterizing procedure of covering it with plastic - which is suppose to be clear -
To the right is the nesting boxes (there are six for 14 birds) and under it is the bathing facilities. We will go around to the back of the coop next. This is a work in progress. This coop sits between the garage on the right and a two-story storage building on the left.
Here we have walked to the back of the coop/run. You see the garage on the left and the two-story shed on the right. So the coop narrows at the back with a latched door into the covered run. I have fenced in a outdoor run just out side that coop door, hence the green stakes. It is covered with wire so that the hens stay in instead of 'flying the coop' and I have tried latching various mediums for a cover but have been unsuccessful thus far in obtaining the look I want.
Okay - some (most) of the girls coming to greet me. The second is that front enclosed area where the afternoon sun shines in. It has a dirt floor (as is true of the whole run) and this portion is covered in pine needles which they absolutely love! Then there is the little coop that I use for their convenience of laying eggs in. There are six nesting boxes and they usually use two of them. ????. Whatever. Under it, behind that ladder is the dusting box. It is a mix of black dirt, landscaping sand and ash along with some charcoal.
