Living Simply for a Better Life
Chicky and King Frederick lived alone in the coop for quite a few months, but in the fall some friends from church gave us 4 Black Star hens. The catch for free chickens was that 2 Rhode Island Red roosters were part of the package. […]
We have a friend that raises show pigeons. Sometimes he gets undesirable traits for showing, but they are perfectly healthy and normal. He asked if we would like the ones that won’t show well, and we decided to give it a try. We got 5 […]
I like to let the chickens out as often as possible, but Frederick is so uncooperative that I don’t as often as I should. Chicky goes back to the coop about 4 each evening, but Frederick cannot be corraled for anything. We have to wait […]
We finally got the chicken coop finished and occupied. Frederick the First and Chicky moved in day before yesterday and look lost in such a big space all alone. We anticipate filling the coop with a whole flock in the near future, though. We used a red oil […]
Once Roy had the coop under roof, we took some time off for other things on “the list”. This weekend we got the run started with a 4 foot fence. The final step in construction will be the roof of the run. Roy has come […]
We have finished up the construction on the coop itself. All the windows and doors are in and all the siding is up. The only real cost besides our labor was the tin for the roof at $140. We did purchase the window material, a clear […]
Aluminet is a great shade cloth product that Roy ran across through work connections. He was introduced to this versatile fabric by John Locker, a wholesale distributor of Aluminet for Xton, Inc. It is a high quality reflective aluminum screen made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) […]
This is the beginnings of our marvellous chicken coop that Roy calls the Taj Machicken. Of course it started out a lot smaller and a lot simpler than it ended up due to revisions we made after we selected the site. Roy used what he […]