My first egg made me cry...

[Uzuri]

Partly because it's so perfect and small, but mostly because I found it just after I moved my coop and the wheels fell off again, this time damaging the coop.

So now I don't know what I'm going to do with the chickens, and one goes and reminds me that I have an obligation to keep them safe and well with nowhere to keep them and no money to make a new home with

I need to sit down and have a good bawl.

Edit: read down for some happier resolution...

 

[3goodeggs]

see if your town has a recycle/freecycle web site. Tell them what you need or ask for ideas that could help, You may be really surprised! Good luck.

 

[Critter Crazed]

Do you have a dog crate or something you can keep them in until you find money to build them a coop? I'm sure they'd be just fine in a dog crate for a while.

I'm sorry.

 

[Uzuri]

I'm feeling much better now

My Dad is mister fix-it, and he convinced me that things weren't as bad as they looked. I went out and bought $10 worth of fixin's and he fixed it

So I can be happy about my egg now.

Though I still rather dread next moving day. Maybe I won't risk it again until spring, though the chickens just seem so much happier on grass.

 

[justmeandtheflock]

Congrats

 

[3goodeggs]

I am happy for you. I am glad that it worked out. Hurray for dad!

 

[LynneP]

Maybe over the winter you can make yourself a second tractor for moving the chooks and leave this one in place? Sounds like you're gaining skills and every time you try something new, you gain more!

 

[Uzuri]

That's what I'm probably going to do

I'm thinking I'm going to get that one situated by the garden and start building a chicken moat about 50 feet at a time when I have the money -- wish I'd have known about them before, I'd have probably done that from the start! If I do that, I can just keep the run portion of my setup as a "tractor" and toss the chickens in whenever we have an area that we'd like them to take care of and bring them in nights.

 

[3goodeggs]

I am glad you are feeling better about it all!