Feb 20
BruceBuilding a chicken coop, Chicken Coop build a chicken coop, buying a chicken coop / house, chickens in the backyard, Kids want chooks
Wow i thought they woudl have relaxed by now but no !!
After lots of bidding and missing on ebay i came to the concludion just buy one !!!
I got the spray can out and marked out the possition down the side of the house, asked the wife to come out and have a look and she says yet thats fine, but then we asked the question is it big enough, do we want these chooks to be cramped, do we want unhappy chickens and the answer was no! so i scrubbed out the painted lines and went back to the drawing board, or back to ebay there was some cool looking ones but non that fited into the area we had that would allow us to walk past, this was an issue. I had kids that wanted chickens, i had a space to put them but no idea how i was goign to house them!
I ran into a friend a tthe nursery who made another point, i made sure the kids werent around before i let him talk about them. He mentioned he had some chickens and he had brought a coop off ebay and that it was Ok but it had a few issues like not being able to get in a clean it and if it was a bit bigger it would be better.
So what do i do ? do i just buy one or do i think about building it and if i do where do i get chicken coop plans or ideas from ? what do i do ?
Feb 15
BruceChicken Coop buying a chicken coop / house
I thought i had one, i rang my mate and told him he was making a trip to pick it up, ebay had come through !!
1 second to go i got outbid by a dollar !! aarrghgghhh dam you ebay
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Feb 12
BruceChicken Coop build a chicken coop, buying a chicken coop / house, chickens in the backyard
It has been a few weeks and I had the location down the side of the house and i had my measurements from ebay and all was looking great.
It was just down to which ebay seller to get it off and how much the postage was going to be.
I had it down to two different sellers one was cheaper with higher postage and the other was dearer with free pickup !! and i have a mate who works about 10 minutes from where it could be picked up from so it was all falling into place.
I made a few bids on a few trying to get a steal but it didnt work out for me someone was outbbidding me every time.
Then i was having a drink with a mate and he asked another question infront of the kids so “how many chooks are you going to get ? ” I hadnt given it much thought but couldnt imagine more than 2, but all of a sudden the kids answered before i got a chance, HEAPS came out to my serprise and the the amusment of everyone else. So i asked how many is heaps and the 4 year old said one for mum, one for dad, one for me and one for my brother Oh and one for the dog. Thats 5 chickens.
So my idea of 2 chooks was now out the window but there was some method in here thinking, 1 chook means hopefully 1 egg per day, that means i can have an omlet every day woohhoooo this idea is sounding better every day, now i just have to find some recepies the use eggs.
Now we were looking at 4-5 chooks i had to really think about how big it needed to be.
So back to ebay to look at how many chickens these coops hold
Jan 14
BruceChicken Coop buying a chicken coop / house, chickens in the backyard, Kids want chooks
Well with all things now aday i needed ot buy something for the chickens to live in so i got 5 minutes and went straight onto ebay and searched for chicken coops, How easy is this hundreds of results, so i tried a few other words like chicken house and chook house, there was heaps there was chicken coops everywhere all i had to decide was what shape !!
I printed a few of the page off and sowed them to the other half to see which one she liked the look of. While I was waiting on the design approval fromt he wife i started to do some mor investigation on ebay. I started to look at the different coop models and noticed although they all looked similar there was differences in each some with trays some with pershces some that open some that had windows. I spend a fair bit of time lookigna the variuos models workingout which one we coudl afford and which one looked the best. The chicken coops supervisor came back to me the next day and said, i dont car which one its going down the side of the hosues we cant see it anyway.
So the plan was in full swing i now had a location…..
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Jan 12
BruceChicken Coop, Chickens build a chicken coop, buying a chicken coop / house, chickens in the backyard, Kids want chooks
The fun begins, the children have decided that we need chickens !!! How the kids decided they need chickes is sort of my fault but thats covered in the why am I building a chicken coop page.
My wife has now also admitted defeat and we are now looking at how we are going find chickens where we are going to house these chickens and what is really involved in looking after chickens, people have been doing it for thousands of years it cant be that hard can it ?
Jan 07
BruceChicken Coop, Chickens chickens in the backyard, Kids want chooks
I am writting here to keep people up to date on the process of deciding to get chickens all the way through to when we actually get some and then where they live
The reason we are getting chickens well thats a long story about why do we need a chicken coop but I have put the detials here and remember there is some things not to say when your kids are around unless you have every intention of doing it 
Chicken houses sheds or coops whatever you want to call them is what i will be looking at for a while while we go about getting our back yard ready
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