You obviously take pride in your landscraping and decorating.
One problem we thought about when we were remodeling our house is that in future should we need repairs, repainting, new construction, fumigating, etc, we had to place our coop enough away from the garage wall so that ladders and construction skids would have room. You might want to think about that before butting the coop permanently against a house or garage wall. Just something to think about.
Your coop is going to have a nice shady spot.
Thanks Sylvester! We moved in a year ago and have been busy doing a lot or repairs to the home (100 yr old bungalow). The garage and home were recently fumigated and a fresh coat of paint is next on the agenda. Because of the layout of our property and local ordinances regarding where the coop can be located on our property we are relegated to this spot. My plan is to make the coop easy to disassemble so if it ever has to be moved or shifted out of the way all I'll need to do is remove a couple of brackets & screws and viola. The shade is provided by a huge Lychee tree so treats should be raining down on them soon
Thanks for the kind words about the landscaping. The yard was in pretty sorry shape when we moved in so there's still a lot left to do but it's getting there.
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To NikJov - A lot of city ordinances are being "nice" guys to allow chickens but the details of the ordinances is such that you can't qualify to put up a coop - NICE GUYS - see, we let you have chickens - when the moon turns green, it rains on the equinox, and there aren't any neighbors around you for 50 miles!!!! I know a lot of people around us not adhering to the ordinances because they are so ridiculous.
Funny but I ran into a chicken owner standing in line at
Walmart. I heard her say "chickens" and we got into a 10 minute conversation about our girls. She just lost one of her 3 free-range hens to a neighbor's dog - da**ed mutts. If a stray chicken goes into a yard it won't kill the pets in that yard, but a dog loose becomes a canine predator! Years ago a neighbor's dog had me pinned in my own house when he jumped into our backyard - vicious animal knew me but decided to go wild in
MY yard!
LOL with all those Lychee nuts your girls will start hankering for some chopped cabbage or watermelon for a change!
When we moved in our yard was bare except for one dying climbing rosebush. When we started chickeneering we added a veg garden (fenced off during summer) a popup canopy for shade, some lean-to's scattered around the yard for hens to snooze/hide under, a recycled doghouse, and some potted citrus trees. We won't plant nut or sweet fruit trees because it attracts too many rodents and wild birds into the yard plus we don't get squirrels that way either. All the neighbors have chopped down their old trees too. Hard for the squirrels and raccoons to get around without trees to hop from yard to yard. We are planting some more rose bushes since the chickens seem to like to snooze under them. They miss the old dead climbing rose bush we pulled out! They even snooze/hide under the wheelbarrow against the fence. Chickens love to hide when they're not free-ranging.
It's slow-going landscaping the yard. I'm retired and don't move so fast anymore. We got a copy of Jessi Bloom's book "Free Range Gardens for Chickens" that tells the toxic vs safe plants in a free-range yard. Working on our 2nd raised garden bed and tending over 75 containered vegetables on the back patio. There's a raised bag bed we have to set up and a BBQ grill area too. Eventually I want a water fountain, a bird bath, and a bridge over a fake pebble "river" and a gazebo, a garden bench, a boysenberry arbor, etc. Forget the front yard, it'll have to wait and let it go dry in this SoCal drought!
Hey the projects keep my arthritic bones exercised!
there isn't any part of it that doesn't have wire now. I will post some current pictures tomorrow. Thanks
