So before we ordered our chicks my mother and i had designed the coup. 4 Nesting boxes easy access from the out side, it was going to be 4x4, then we changed it around and made it 4x6 with six nesting boxes. Just a little hen house for our hens...
So tonight we bring our plans to my grandfather who were going to build the coup with. He was a contractor for years and has built dozens of houses. First he want's to put a wire floor in it for easy cleaning. Me being the animal rights vegetarian was like "NOOOOO!!!" (okay so i wasn't exactly like that) So we decided to do a wood floor. Then he wanted to put skids on it to move it around easy, make sense. Then he was like well why don't we put another set of nesting boxes on top of each other so that doubles it to like 12, or 10 if we make them big.. So then we were like okayy...
He goes out smokes a cig and comes back in
Well why don't you make the grain room (which used to be a coup for our pigeons) into a chicken coup. And i was like
(i have this fear of walk in coups...don't ask me why!) So then i was shaking my head and my mom was like...No,
So right now all we know is its going to be lifted 2 feet off the ground on skids! lol, By the time my grandfather gets done it's going to be a palace! Our chicks are coming in at the end of the month
and i would *like* to have the coup done by the time they get here...That is if we can settle on a design!
Im done
So tonight we bring our plans to my grandfather who were going to build the coup with. He was a contractor for years and has built dozens of houses. First he want's to put a wire floor in it for easy cleaning. Me being the animal rights vegetarian was like "NOOOOO!!!" (okay so i wasn't exactly like that) So we decided to do a wood floor. Then he wanted to put skids on it to move it around easy, make sense. Then he was like well why don't we put another set of nesting boxes on top of each other so that doubles it to like 12, or 10 if we make them big.. So then we were like okayy...
He goes out smokes a cig and comes back in
Well why don't you make the grain room (which used to be a coup for our pigeons) into a chicken coup. And i was like
So right now all we know is its going to be lifted 2 feet off the ground on skids! lol, By the time my grandfather gets done it's going to be a palace! Our chicks are coming in at the end of the month
Im done
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