We took ourselves off to B&Q this morning to buy some sand for the dust bath and several sacks of softwood chippings for the floor of the run. There's a good deep layer there with huge scratching potential!
The final job was to make the chicken ladder so they have access to the raised hen-house doorway. It hooks over the frame of the hen-house support so it's really secure but can be removed by lifting the front of the house a little and un-hooking it. I was going to paint it in the dark oak wood preservative that the stand is painted in, but I had a little think and decided that when the light is going and you need to find your way back home before the final darkness falls and the pop-hole closes, you need a light path to guide you, not something that sinks into invisibility in the twilight. That's the theory anyway!
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light is going and you need to find your way back home before the final darkness falls and the pop-hole closes
Oh my, can you say Spoilt Chickens?
It's all looking wonderful and I am getting increasingly envious. Wish SIL would get her neat little posterior over here and bring our hen house! Just think of all the weeding the girls could do for me during the summer?
Wow, can I move in please???
Bit cramped for you sewali!
When is SIL due? I thought it was going to be March?
See Flum try to think like a chicken!
Bet you're crossing the days off until 'Hen Day', aren't you? Egg-citing times!
Thinking like a chicken's a doddle if you've got a bird-brain Hazel!
By good luck it's the start of the Easter Holidays next weekend. Grand-daughter will not have her pre-school classes so I expect the chickens to have lots of companty in their first week or two.
Forgive my ignorance - but - what have you put on the floor of the cage? It all looks very cosy - they are certainly going to be spoilt hens!
By the way - I have a friend whose daughter raises free range chickens in Wales and she says that you only get really dark yellow yolks if the hens eat grass....
The flooring is soft wood chippings Granny. Yes, grass gives deep yellow yolks but so do all greens. The chickens will be let out in the day when I'm there to forage in all but the veg garden(sacred spaces and all that!) and they'll also be given greens every day - allotment stuff and garden weeds, but not too much or they get runny - you don't want to know!
I just found your blog, and am enjoying looking around. You did a beautiful job on the coop! I love chickens, we have bantams.
I will be back to visit!
Thanks for visiting, dowhatyoulove. I popped over to see your blog - what a beautiful part of the world you live in!
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