The past few weeks I’ve been working, while not at my profession, on a “chicken coop”.
This brought on by my wife bringing home four little baby chicks. Yes, they’re so cute. We kept them inside in a bin under a heat lamp, feeding them starter food.
By the end of the week there were eight baby chicks and four baby ducks. Yep, living inside in the bin, under the heat lamp, eating starter food.
So a plan was drawn up, lumber, materials, screws, etc bought and work begun.
If anyone hasn’t experienced baby anything – they grow FAST. The ducks soon outgrew all the other birds. Of which there are four different kinds of chickens, with my wife having plans to add two more chickens in a few days – a different kind.
So when not at work I’ve been building the over-sized, robust chicken coop.
How big? Twenty feet by thirty feet, nine feet high. Made of twelve foot pressure treated 4x4s roughly three feet into the ground. Cross braced walls, one half with a low sloping metal roof with plywood and cross bracing underneath. A full sized door. Any open areas completely covered with chicken wire (poultry netting as the manufacturers call it).
Add to this my wife procuring three rabbits with their own separate hutches. They arrived yesterday. Someone wanted to get rid of them. So now they are – along with their hutches – inside the chicken coop as well.