Making a Chicken Coop :>

We got our idea for our chicken coop from this wonderful site - It allows you to look at the plans as long as they are only for your use. We have amended it to suit our needs and send a big squeezy hug of thanks to them for their wonderful information. Here is their link;-

http://www.buildeazy.com/chicken_coop_metric_1.html

Side view of the coop with the window on the left..

Finished coop with the egg box (where the hens will lay their eggs).

Waterproofed laying box

From the side...We still have to sort out our two exits (one that goes into our Winter pasture and one that goes into our Summer pasture).

Chicken Course

We have booked our chicken course for the 27th February (Sunday) in the afternoon 1 - 4 ...Our hosts are Ann and Ben - Here is their website;-

http://www.gardenandchicken.co.uk/

It's funny how we are so nervous yet excited - our building work is about to begin again after the Christmas break..Not long until we have our chickens : >

Internal Fencing

Dividing the Summer and Winter Pastures..

Catch up :>

Our rules are in place and everyone is in the process of signing the memberships..We have now voted in a Committee and are in the process of finishing off the building work...

The chicken coop leaked after heavy rainfall..So it was decided to paint the roof in black bitumin paint... All is fine now :) 

The foodstore .....Footings were finished off and it has been moved over from an allotment plot (it was a shed) and re-erected in its new place.

Raspberry canes were planted around the fencing...To help deter foxes and let the chooks munch on the bugs.

We contacted a local company who are in the process of arranging a course one Saturday/ Sunday morning for us..They will cover everything that we need to know about having chickens. More details later..

Things still to do..

Finish off the fencing.

Cement the coop area.

Build the internal gates.

Build the Isolation Coop.

Make the perches and internal shutter system for the chicken coop.

Lots to do...But we'll get it done ;)

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Last But Not Least :>

To finish off our *Thank you's* we would like to add the important people who helped us at the very begining..They were members who stood looking at a weedy overgrown plot complete with junk and bits of broken glass...

Some of them stood in the rain on our very first carboot...holding an umbrella trying to shield our carboot stuff from ongoing torrents....Some spent time puting visions onto paper for us all to see and appreciate....Some sat during our *Fundraising Meetings* full of ideas...Some spent time helping us to get our funding....Some spent hours with the *ongoing job* of painting fence panels and digging fence pole holes....All of them contributed towards raising the funds we needed and getting us this far...

** Thank you

to all the past members and their spouses of the Chook Club **

All future posts will be technical to do justice to Jiliangs wonderful photo's and the teams wonderful building abilities ...

*Look out for our delivery from Buildbase*

Chooktopia project