Nice picts Miami Leghorns. ETA good tips for low cost wood !!
Moonshiner, can't wait to see what you come up with.
Once in California - way way back in the day -- they had this thing called the 'Festival of the Arts' in Laguna Beach/Laguna Canyon. It was a seaside resort and became very swank - but also had a hippie element. The Festival of the Arts if memory serves had living replicas of famous paintings -- like say 'The Last Supper' except real people would be dressed up to play the figures in the painting. They had a 'jurried' art show and many more artists were turned away than included if I recall rightly. (Laguna Beach was considered at art community at one time I think--maybe back in the 1930's or '40's) So the folk who were 'rejected' went across the street from the Art Festival and they made the 'Saw Dust Festival' -- It was all made from scraps and left overs etc. and was very creative and more interesting and 'artsy' than the snooty one on the other side of the road. Or so its seems.
The Sawdust Festival was people building things from scraps. Of course over the 50-60 years it has become commercial etc. -- and totally different, time moves ahead everywhere. Every place has a festival or two also now-a-days. (Especially here in TX) -- Here's a screen grab from the Sawdust:
Oh, so that's how they do it. You can look in this screen grab and see the man is real, but the table where his hand is located is painted, as are the chess pieces. Pretty ingenious never-the-less:
So the people are real, and the rest of the stuff is like stage props.
Apology for drifting off topic, Oh yeah, we were talking about using used materials to build, enlarge and refurbish coops.
Before I reduced my population by one, I was thinking for trying to use some plastic shelving, chicken wire, hardware cloth and huge limbs plus small branches to fabricate a new kind of coop with an emphasis on going vertical. I never even got as far as the sketching phase...but I have some limbs leaning against a tree that I can't decide if I should throw on the burn pile or save to bring along to the Moonshiner's barn raising in a few years when this is all past if I'm among the living. LOL
Most important, and bottom line is that the whole idea of 'form follows function' and what the requirements of a chicken pen dictate, added to the materials that are on hand and that can easily be obtained plus creativity and necessity can produce some interesting pens and best of all open the door for ---wait for it, wait for it.....
ta da
More chicks for another project. Yay!
