Chicken run is almost done. After a few months of procrastination, we’ve finally started the chicken run. It took a couple of weekends but it’s almost done. We just have to sew the wire mesh together and staple it on properly and we’ll have a secure pen for our girls. They’re quite happy to free […]
Chickens
The girls
Well we lost queenie and boo to a mystery infection during winter but our two remaining girls are doing well and enjoying their new found freedom being aloud to free range all day. Midas has been a very good boy and happily shares the yard with them, it’s just a bit worrying that he has […]
FIRST EGG!!!
After just 3 days of chicken ownership I’m proud to announce the arrival of our first egg! I think Queenie must have laid today, it’s a bit smaller than a supermarket egg.
The Girls Arrive
Ok, it’s been a few weeks since I‘ve updated this thread, work stopped on the chicken house for awhile because of some wet weekends, and other commitments, but last weekend (long weekend in WA) we got back on track and finished cladding the walls and the doors, put in a ceiling, insulation and a roof […]
Chicken House Update
Ok, so another weekend is over and we’ve made a bit more progress on the chicken coop. We had a couple of good scores, the fibre cement cladding and insulation turned out to be new, but excess left over from a building job so it was pretty cheap. This is how it looked on Saturday […]
Construction Begins
We started construction of the chicken house on the Easter weekend. So far we’ve got most of the materials for free. Frame Timber – Free from Gumtree, a guy wanted to get rid of his old pagola. It’s all Jarrah – a real score as it’s more termite resistant than other timbers without the chemicals […]
New Chicken House Plan
This is the new plan for our chicken ouse, we’e decided against a transportable coop and gone with a permanent one instead. It’s going to be 2m long by 1.5m wide, should be enough space for about 10 chickens.