Old Wooden Playhouse Coop Conversion in Progress- Picture Heavy and more to come!

[RollinWithTheStones]

Beautiful, so jealous.

 

[HouseMouseHens]

We have been slacking hard on the coop this last week, and then we went to a wedding yesterday, so today we FINALLY got some work done! Put the nest box on the wall after cutting out the whole for it, and framing it in. Then we added the finishing boards to that wall. Yes! It's coming along! Think I am going to finish the two windowed walls with the finishing boards tomorrow, and then I believe it'll be ready for the roof! We still havn't begun the run, but that is nest since we can't raise the roof until this weekend when we can get five or six people to help us. It's in two large pieces that weigh about 200lbs each, so it's going to be really hard.

Here is the pictures of the progress we made today!
The finished wall with the cutout for the nest boxes: We still need to make some sort of perch or ladder to them. Probably a perch...


The inside access to the next boxes: We have four boxes for 12 chickens.


The next box from the outside: It needs a board to trim off the top, but it started raining so we stopped.


And the egg collection door open(with our screws and drill inside, haha!)




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[HouseMouseHens]

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Also, we got chick #10, #11, #12 today to finish off our flock!

This is Sugar Magnolia, a Welsummer:


Petunia, a Speckled Sussex:


And we may call this one Esmerelda, she is a Black Australorpe.

 

[Erin~TheChickenLover]

The progress looks great!

Very cute chicks, love the breeds you picked!

 

[HouseMouseHens]

The progress looks great!   Very cute chicks, love the breeds you picked! 

Thanks, we wanted to get each one a different breed. Were actually going to get a blue Andalusian today to make it 13, because we are worrie that our barred rock isn't growing at all.

 

[Pharm Girl]

Thanks, we wanted to get each one a different breed. Were actually going to get a blue Andalusian today to make it 13, because we are worrie that our barred rock isn't growing at all.

Don't give up on your little guy! My Nando was the size of a 1 week chick for 10 weeks! Can't wait to see the finished coop..
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...will-not-grow-update-hes-found-a-forever-home

 

[HouseMouseHens]

Don't give up on your little guy! My Nando was the size of a 1 week chick for 10 weeks! Can't wait to see the finished coop..
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...will-not-grow-update-hes-found-a-forever-home

Aww, I just read the whole Nando post. Makes me feel sooo much better! We are still going to get a Blue, but were not planning on culling anyone either. If we end up with 13, we end up with 13. I don't like even numbers anyways.

 

[HouseMouseHens]

Did a bit today before it got too dark, and the inside is really startng to look more chicken coop-ish!

Framed in the door:


And put in the roost and awning on the nest boxes!




Keep in mind this will all be painted white, so all the mismatched wood colors won't be there when it's done. I think it actually looks kinda neat with all the warm wood, but we need to seal t somehow since the wood we used is really soft cedar. We need to add the ramp up to the chicken door, and the roosts and the inside will be done and ready for the roof! We're having a roof raising party this Sunday and having bribing a few friends with free beer to help us. Then after the roof is on and the vents at the peak have hardware cloth on them, I think we'll move the chicks out there (with the lamp of course.) They are between a week and almost four weeks old, so they definitely still need the light, but now that there are 13 of them, the brooder is a bit small for them to really get to run around. It's 4ftx4ft (and about a foot and a half high), so it's probably sufficient, but they would probably like more space, right?

 

[HouseMouseHens]

Oh, and we also ended up with one more chick yesterday too. Meet Isadora, a Blue Andalusian. She's two weeks old.



Chicken math strikes again. When we started this adventure, we planned on three hens. Well, then we fell in love with five the day we got them. Then we decided that fve was a weird number, so we got six. THEN, a friend wanted to invest in our chickens n exchange for eggs, so we got three more, making nine. Well, then we got this playhouse, which is large enough to fit about 13-15 hens, so we figured might as well just get the 12 we planned on getting eventually now so we dont have to go through the hassle of introducing new hens to the flock down the road. Then bring me to yesterday, when I went to pick up some scratch at the feed store(no, I didn't call the day before I went to see if they had a blue andy chick.... and i definitely didnt have them hold her for me

), and this little cutie, the last there of her breed cheeped at me through the window of the chick room just crying "take me home!!!!!!" Apparently, every one of the others in her breed were picked up the day before by a chicken farmer, but he only wanted 24, and they had 25. So his loss is my gain, and here we are now at 13. 13.....13.

My husband thinks I am crazy.

I am DONE this time. I SWEAR.

 

[chicksbunsdog]

Love her!