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[Chicken Rustler]

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I don't know how you all can chat to yourselves. I have nothing to say to me.

You need to take lessons from Justbugged, she can entertain herself for hours!

Glad I am not like that

wouldn't want anybody acusing me of being related to my get away driver !!

 

[Chickielady]

Dinner

see ya later~~

 

[SadieSue]

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It can be fun, but also a miserable process. I know I will be happy with it when I am done, thats IF I'm ever done...

Ive been planning and constructing all winter, get some progress done, and then the weather decides to put a halt to any work... I havnt been able to touch the new coop in over two weeks because of the weather. Well not just the weather, the fact that I have a toddler who is constantly tearing something up.

Now I need to purchase more materials. I have enough plywood to finish the structure without the addition, and now I need to double what I already have. I also need to track down more pier blocks to raid the second half up off the ground.

I'm really hoping that my mother has spares laying around her property...

I am trying hard to not stress, but it just isnt working. If only I had a second set of hands, and someone to watch DD... When the weathers nice, I just lock her in the fenced yard to play while I work just outside the fence on the coop, but the weather wont make up its stupid mind. Right now its raining, and sunny! I guess I really feel more overwhelmed with this entire project. As I was SO close to finishing, and now I am not even 1/2 way there...

I'm sorry Cheryl, I understand how frustrating it must be for you. The weather hasn't been cooperating for any of us the past 2 weeks. I wish I were there to babysit for you for the afternoon! Just breathe... One step at a time...
Hugs.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Hey I have some missed nappin to catch up on now. My little adventure to the torture chamber caused me to be up for 44 hours. but I AM NOT GRUMPY JUST LEAVE ME ALONE

 

[jbear]

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lol~we call this the peep show'

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Hey I have some missed nappin to catch up on now. My little adventure to the torture chamber caused me to be up for 44 hours. but I AM NOT GRUMPY JUST LEAVE ME ALONE

DS KNOWS that when mommy is cranky and tired, he'd better shut his yap and play in his room! LOL Sometimes he's brave enough to say "do you want to go take a nap?" LOL

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Cheryl, we built a very similar coop to that with pallets. Here's a pic of ours:

Here's my page showing how we built it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=22465-our-pallet-coop-duplex

It's worked really really well for us. In fact, we built a similar style one of our goat shed last fall which is shown on the bottom of that page.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Hey I have some missed nappin to catch up on now. My little adventure to the torture chamber caused me to be up for 44 hours. but I AM NOT GRUMPY JUST LEAVE ME ALONE

Dont bother being grumpy. I'm grumpy enough for the entire state!

And the sucky part is, its nobodies fault. "Guess thats not so sucky." Just one of those days, that just dont go right. Would love to go back to bed for a while, but little girl here wont allow it. She's been up sence 4AM, and shows no sign of getting sleepy yet...

 

[SadieSue]

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Cheryl, we built a very similar coop to that with pallets. Here's a pic of ours:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/22465_05-10-2009_010.jpg

Here's my page showing how we built it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=22465-our-pallet-coop-duplex

It's worked really really well for us. In fact, we built a similar style one of our goat shed last fall which is shown on the bottom of that page.

That's the one I was thinking of! That's a great setup! Very similar to the layout of Cheryl's plan I think.

 

[blueducklings]

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