Jun 12
BruceBuilding a chicken coop, Chicken Coop, Chickens build a chicken coop, Chicken Coop Plans, chickens in the backyard, Kids want chooks
The queens birthday long weekend gives me a great chance to start this DIY project to build the chicken coop.
The chicken coop plans are all done its now time to start to put it all together.
I lay out all the materials i have and get the circular saw and all the other tools i need out.
My Son decides he wants to help so i give him a few small tasks to do while i cut the lengths i need, while im doing that he asks, when can we get the chickens can we get them today ! I explain that we cant get the chickens today as we have to use the plans that we have to build the chicken hutch before we can buy the chickens, where will they sleep i ask him? He offered his room but i convinced him that wouldn’t be a good idea
The timber lengths were cut and I start to do a heap of mitre cuts so we can join the chicken coop floor and walls together. I give my 7 year old a hammer and a chisel and show him how to clean out the cuts, he does it with ease this is going to be good
Between the two of us we manage to follow the chicken coop plans and get to the stage we need to put it all together so i pull out some screw and some trusty liquid nails for extra support and we are ready to go
After about an hour we get it all glued and screwed and decide that is enough for the day, then the kids stand back looka t it and say can we buy the chickens yet ? Ahh the kids are still chicken crazy
Mar 02
BruceChicken Coop, Chickens chickens in the backyard, Kids want chooks, type of chickens, Types of chooks
So now the chicken decission has been made while i look for coop plans and ideas I needed to work out where to buy some chooks and then which chicken is best for kids?
I didn’t realise there was so many types of chickens to choose from there is Australorps, light sussex, Rhode Island Reds, leghorns, Silkie, Laced Barnevelder, Wyandotte, bantams, isa browns and they are just the ones my freiends either curently have or have had before.
One friend finaly made a comment that made perfect sense, what do you want them for pets or eggs and do you want the kids to play with the chickens ?
And the answer was yes to all fo the above yes we wanted chickens as pets, and yes we wanted eggs as there is no point having chickens if they wont give us enough eggs and the kids will want to play with and im sure the dog will to !!!
SO i have asked some freinds what they think is best and am waiting on the answer from a few more but it looks like isa browns or bantoms mabyee i could get some of each 
I will keep you posted
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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