OMG! That is awesome!! LOL!
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OMG! That is awesome!! LOL!
It's great to teach kids to use tools at an early age, it's a skill they'll benefit from later on, and develops their dexterity. I had the neighbor's kids helping me with the coop all the time, the father was looking a bit horrified when I let their 9 year old son use a pneumatic framing nailgun, but it went fine. I never imagined a six and nine year old could actually be helpful, but they were.
Probably safer than a framing hammer and nails! You have to press the pneumatic nailer against the surface so unless you are in a darn big hurry you have a hard time hitting anything but what you intend to hit. Now with the traditional hammer and nail method, well let's just say I've never met anyone who has used that method and hadn't blackend a thumbnail or mashed a finger at least a bit.
Sweet!
Fabulous coop. Since you free range your flock give them a few scattered shelters for daytime snoozing or hiding from aerial predators. The trees will provide shade but also provide Hawks a vantage to watch your hens before swooping down on one. Have some doghouses, benches, plywood planks on cinderblocks, rose bushes or thorny evergreen shrubbery scattered around the open field so a hen doesn't have to run far to hide. A running hen in an open field is an invitation to a hawk. Our Cooper's Hawk visits once in a while but we have so much in the way of popup canopies, doghouses, low shelters, and shrubbery that he can be 5 feet away from a hiding hen but won't go after her - darnedest thing I ever saw. He seldom comes around any more. I think the neighborhood Crows have ganged up on him to keep him away. I didn't used to like Crows but they actually are quite useful here in the city - I wouldn't trust them to stay away from baby chicks however. I've seen them go after ducklings.