That sounds really exciting!! Good luck with it all. I'd love to see pictures of the process.My husband and I have been having a very interesting discussion this morning. The city has been working on a creek restoration project for the past couple of years. We live right beside the creek, it runs right behind the chicken coop. Anyway our land has a sharp slope/hill in the front and back. When the kids were younger and played ball, the ball would always end up rolling down the hill to the creek. We always wished our land was more level. The city has offered to level up our land in the front and reseed it and make it look nice while they finish up the waterway work that they are doing. They mentioned also doing the same in the back yard but the chickens are in the way, coop, run and my garden. That got my husband thinking and me too, of course. We are going to see if they can still raise up our back yard too if we move the chicken coop. It may not work out but if it does, that means I will have a whole new coop for the chickens. Here is the current coop and run. This is before the chickens were inside, we've added more fencing since this picture, plus we had to add tarps since the roof to the metal shed that we refurbished leaked.Here is a current picture of the run and coop. The coop is under the ugly tarp. There is a family of squirrels living under the tarp now too between the roof of the coop and the tarp. They crawl under the tarp there on the side to get to their new home. You can see one of the cities machines there in the back.
Here is a look at the raised bed garden where they free range, you can see the coop and run there in the back and where the city is working, the creek is right on the other side of all that dirt.
So we'll have to move all of this and I will have to delay having a garden awhile until they finished. In the meantime, our plan is to move them into one of our sheds. This one is 8 x 10, which is the same size as the metal shed they are in now, but it also is a lot taller with a real roof and everything. They'll have more space overall and I can give them some high roost too. I won't have to use plastic to cover the windows either. Any windows we put will have to saw out of the sides, then the piece left over will become a cover for the window that I can close. I hope it works! If the city agrees to fixing the yard in the back, we'll have a lot of work ahead of us. Here is the shed that we will convert over. It is much closer to out house and at the top of the hill. This is a picture from the summer when everything was green and blooming and there was no construction. If you look beyond those trees to the left you can see the chicken run which is way down the hill.
Our plan is to first fix the shed as a coop. Then make a ally of fencing to lead them to it. After we get them all inside their new coop, we'll start dismantling the run, hopefully we can save the run to reuse. Then we'll demolish the old coop/metal shed. Should be interesting, if the plan works! Sorry to go on so long, I am excited and you guys understand my excitement. My family does not get it. My husband is the only one here who understand.
