~ Retired and Starting My Future In The Foothills ~

[coloradochick]

Holy Cow! what a neck! Isn't it nice when the boys can all get along.

That porch is going to be gorgeous when alls said and done. How nice it must be to have a friend doing the work for you and you know you can trust him to do a top notch job.

So Turkeys are great fly catchers you say......but aren't they more suseptible to diseases and such or did I hear wrong.

I like the pic of your girl looking at the screen door. Do you think she was cussing you and John a bit on that one

 

[gryeyes]

Friday was quite busy. A nice lunch with HH and FL at Beth Sogaard's place in Plymouth, some grocery shopping in Placerville, all whilst John installed all the screen material on the porch. It's SO nice. "Nice" is really a huge understatement - it's absolutely fantabulous! To complete the day, a rousing good time at the Charles Mitchell Winery Endless Pizza Night.

Back on Thursday afternoon, after the second screen door was installed at the other end of the porch,

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John set up a taut string as a "chicken barrier" about 5 inches above the porch rail. Not only was it hoped to keep Hitchcock from roosting there (and pooping all night onto the porch) but will remain to deter other chickens from trying to fly up there once the screens were up.

Hitchcock: "I laugh at your string!"

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Actually, I found him on the porch twice, stomping around and muttering to himself as he looked at his favorite spot on the railing from different directions. Each time, I shooed him off the porch, opening the screen door to make him walk down the steps to the yard. He paced back and forth, continuing to cluck-grumble about the situation. But in the middle of the night, I checked again to discover him asleep on the railing. Ah well - it was the last night he was going to be able to sleep there.

All the screens were installed on Friday.

John called me Saturday morning to see if Hitchcock was lodged, beak-first, in the screen material, or if his lowering The String an inch and a half worked better as a barrier. Well, there was ONE small evidence of chicken on the railing and no accumulation on soil in the cement planter at the base of the porch. That was it. And tonight, Hitchcock is actually roosting IN the main coop, on the second to the top rung of one of the roost ladders.

After the construction crap and other garbage in the yard has been gathered and taken to the dump, I'll take some more photos of how simply gorgeous the porch looks. Especially after the river rock has been placed in the planter box to prevent messy dust-bathing in it.

 

[Casey3043]

Your porch is gorgeous! And of course Hitchcock scoffed at the string, your feeble attempt to keep him from his rightful roost! I'm sure when he went in the big coop, he announced, "Move over, hens and peons! I'm taking the highest roost!"

He slept in there because he wanted to, not because you told him to.

I've tried to figure out the configuration of your yard and house by the pictures, but now I'm confused. What is that large garage in the background of the picture looking out the left-hand end (I think) of the porch (as you face the house). The only "outbuilding" we saw till now has been the original "garage", which looked like a one car setup, and the opening was toward the road. I think you were turning that into a chicken coop. So is this new light brown building a new coop or what?

You will really enjoy your screened porch. I love mine, and it is just like another room. Contractors are always wanting me to glass it in, but I like the outdoorsy feel. The cats go out there and lie in the sun no matter how hot it is! When guests stop by for a drink, it's more pleasant out there than in the living room on a cool evening, and we can hear the cows mooing and the chickens clucking.

 

[Carols Clucks]

The light brown is the shingles on the garage-aka coop

 

[Casey3043]

Oh, OK. Going back to post #1 with the pictures taken all around, there is one where you can see the garage door opening, and it is wider than I thought. Some of the pictures taken more from the side make it look narrower, like a one car garage. I did kind of wonder how she got all those brooders and pens and cages in that small garage.

The place is really coming together nicely. A lovely, peaceful place to live, with pets and plants and nature in harmony.

 

[~*Sweet Cheeks*~]

I'm checking in for an update. Hope all is well with you.

 

[nikki1]

I bet Linda is busy enjoying her new porch! Kicking back with a big glass of lemonade in a patio chair is my bet!

 

[1muttsfan]

Lemonade? I'm guessing wine

 

[nikki1]

The real question though, is this: After all the work and expense of screening in her porch, is there a little piece of her that will miss having a lap chicken while she's kicking back drinking lemonade or wine or whatever? Hmmm....

 

[THE Curmudgeon]

The real question though, is this: After all the work and expense of screening in her porch, is there a little piece of her that will miss having a lap chicken while she's kicking back drinking lemonade or wine or whatever? Hmmm....

Probably NOT Lemonade or wine .........Probably is:



Ha-Ha !!!

THE Curmudgeon