With a little help from my friends - New Coop Under Construction!

[HHandbasket]

I get asked that a LOT.

He's the youngest of 8 kids and is the last of his kind. I blush and consider it a compliment when people ask me stuff like that.

Make no mistake, tho... our coop does not look like that, except in my dreams. Hehehe.

 

[drumstick diva]

Last of his kind - NO!!!! Does he have sons?? Can we clone him?? Please. You don't care about Us because YOU'VE got him. I can't even find someone that knows how to change the ballast in my expensive plant light fixture. No way am I playing with electrical wires and stuff. I'm just kidding.

 

[farmer_lew]

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In that particular photo I am, indeed, holding a framing nailer. I was nailing on the rest of the roof.

 

[farmer_lew]

So far it has taken 26 actual work hours to put up this coop. Seems longer, though, because it is being built on my days off and between rain showers. Just a few details left to go. Need to install the auto-door, build the dutch style people door, put hardware cloth over the windows and eave vents and prime the exterior. That will complete the exterior except for the final color top coat. After that, the interior.

 

[gryeyes]

Here's the coop with the corrigated roof panels installed, quite late in the afternoon.

 

[PepsNick]

Linda, I heard that you have to downsize. So sorry.

 

[gryeyes]

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Yes, I have to re-home my call ducks and downsize the flock. (I suspect I will still fudge on the total numbers, as much as I can get away with.... the landlady IS fond of several of my chickens.)

But I will be attempting to find good homes for several chickens and most all of the chicks I hatch. Which means I will have to slow down on the hatching bit.

 

[drumstick diva]

Is this a landlady problem? What if the collective (all BYC members strong) use mind control vibes on her and persuade her to let you have tons of chickens so she can visit and love on them???

 

[farmer_lew]

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Futile resistance is. Yoda of Borg am I.

 

[gryeyes]

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She doesn't have to VISIT, she lives in the front house on the acre property, I live in the back house.

What happened is she took a few days off work and my call ducks busted me - they're much noisier than the Cayugas.

The landlady is a really wonderful woman, really. When I warned her there would be people on the property building a new coop, first she asked, "Is this a coop I know about?" Uh, no.... but I want a big one so I can consolidate the smaller ones scattered around and rearrange the back yard. She nodded and said, "Well, when one starts a project, you don't always know what works best until you've been at it a while." So I mentioned the coop builders have already taken some of my "excess" chickens. She replied, "Okay, I won't think they're chicken thieves then. Just as long as they don't take your beautiful, big rooster, Carl!"

She LIKES seeing my chickens ranging freely in her back yard with her sheep. She has 3 Barbados sheep as pets. They have free range over the entire acre, too, with the exception of my back yard. My chickens are not restricted to my back yard at all.

She's just concerned about duck mess (she had geese, but I guess ducks are messier, in her mind, needing more water and drilling all those holes in the mud around their water dishes and kiddie pool), possible ground water contamination of the well which is our water source, and there being too many roosters.

I have just been pushing an envelope a bit more than a tad too far.