Hahaha! Sure, you'd be welcome if you lay an egg a day and are friendly!
Yeah, I should have probably said more about the dirt. I built a chicken house that will have a "living roof." I saw it in a shed book I was looking at while designing my coop and loved the idea. The coop sits a little below our house, so I thought it would be fun to look down on it and see flowers and grasses growing on the roof. We just built it this summer, though, so nothing is planted on it yet. We just have a tarp over the dirt, held down by pieces of wood to keep the dirt from washing away in the spring rains. Next summer, though, we'll have stuff planted in it! I thought it would be crazy fun if the chickens flew up to the roof and grazed up there! I don't think they can fly that well, though, and anyway, there's plenty of easier greenery to eat.
And what are you doing without a saw?!? IJK - I didn't have one until we decided to build our house (wanted to live in the country, but couldn't find any place that hadn't been logged horribly until we found the piece we ended up buying. The access is awful, which saved the trees, mostly. No house on it, though, so we had to build our own. My mom's first present to me after we decided to build was a compound miter saw. Yay for moms! I love my saw!!
My chickens don't seem to like to eat the turkey and chicken pieces I put in their run. But my dog sure does! The hardest part is keeping her out of the run - she wishes she were a chicken because they get all the best treats (in her mind, at least). The turkey does disappear, but I'm never sure if the dog snuck in when I wasn't looking, or if the chickens ate it while I wasn't looking.
Oh, goodness! Just start here and do your best to keep up from now on! That's hard enough. You can go back and read through it as you have time, but we don't want to have to wait until you read it all before you join the conversation! If you say or ask something that's been said or asked before, no big deal. My memory is so bad I probably wouldn't remember anyway, and it doesn't seem like anyone here would get their panties in a bunch over that...
Oh, I'm so sorry. It's the worst part of having animals, and never seems to get easier.
I just read this to my husband, and he heard the peeled feet and said he thinks he can live without "super nutritious bone broth."