Oh.... where is LaughingFeather when you need her.... I can just see a photoshoped pic of a chic reading the Seattle Times!
Hey you! Still waiting for pics of the AM chicks you got from CGG.....she said tapping her foot impatiently...
But most decided to sleep on the deck Friday, Saturday and tonight and we had to move them in the dark. I'm not too worried, we went through this with the ark and it took a few days. 
They are laying in the nest boxes (plastic tubs). I had put an egg in each one to show them. I had to enlarge the holes since they we struggling to squeeze in the original holes. 
Here's the back. The door is secured with a magnet and flips down for access to the nest boxes. 
I was a little nervous about how open it is compared to the ark they've been in, but they came through the 28F low Friday night just fine. It's real easy to move, can pick up the front with one hand and roll to a new spot. No bedding to clean up except in the nest boxes.Of course, since you have nine nest boxes, only two will ever be used.chicken house progress- we've got 9 nest boxes made now (the bottom boxes shown without the bottoms in them). We made the nest boxes so you could remove the bottoms of each box- they slide out- in case you need to remove entire bottom to clean a mess.
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That was MY first thought too!!I have 11 layers right now and they only have the option of 2 nest boxes. So for now, they use both because otherwise they'd drop em out in the middle of the chicken run. No other options. But unless she has like 100 birds, they're totally gonna fight over 2 of those 9 nests!
That is an awesome coop!! I can't wait to see the saloon doors! I really need to get mine completed. We finally moved the dog kennel down today and the girls got to go outside for the first time. Within 5 minutes, there was a hawk circling. I stretched some wire fencing over one side, then we took the remaining kennel panel and put it up on the other side, so now they can play and forage without too much worry.okay, so here's the last of the chicken house work we did today, before it got too dark to work:
we put this rail on the front of the slated poop board.
It's a 4" piece of smooth pine, that was already varnished with a clear shellac.
This way the poop doesn't roll all the way onto the floor, right?
except we decided to give it an upgrade: watch how hubby is holding this rail:
we made it so it flips down- it's hinged with a pair of spring-loaded cabinet hinges, so when we want to change the sand on top, we flip the rail down and ~voila~
here's how the window looks now that we finished it- I'm still not sure if we want to use some of the boards we cut out to trim it or not?
just a floor covering and we're ready for the chickens to take up residence in the old west chicken saloon!
(need some wagon wheels on the sides!)
