Cluckingham Palace was not built in a day. It actually took two weekends and a small bit of work during the week. Why, you ask would we need a new chicken house/yard?
- Free Range Chickens are not all they are cracked up to be.
Pooping wherever they want? They also eat flowers and dust in flower beds. The biggest problem however, is that in the summer, they go to bed really, really late, sometimes later than we do and this has caused us to loose a few ‘girls’.
This situation is not new and I’ve been trying to give the chickens more space since last summer. I ordered additional fencing from, (can you believe it) a company called ‘Omlet’, which has every item for chickens they could ever need and a few items they don’t, including clothes. (Folks, I cannot make this stuff up!)
2. The old chicken yard was not only small, but it was…a tad ugly.
The girls needed better, so we begin the ‘demo’.
I had a ‘plan’ and My Loving Spouse goes along with it…although, he did put his foot down when it came to adding dormer patio roof extensions for the girls. Seriously!
We lay out the new yard.
We work on Cluckingham Palace’s yard, while the flock enjoys their last few days of pooping on the porches.
We dig the grass up all around the palace to ensure no skunks or other vermin dig below the fence to accost our hens.
With the grass back in place the palace looks great and threat free.
We add a second door made out of an old screen door I’ve been hording.
The roosting structure is made from two of the old porch railings we’d replaced.
The chickens checkout the new maple tree we’ll plant in their yard. Cluck House has lovely grounds and we’ve hopes for more hens. A dozen eggs are ‘brewing’ in the incubator, due next week…and if they don’t hatch…well, we’ve a backup of chicks coming from ‘The Chicken Outfitter’ . (The stuff you can buy on the internet!)
We are blessed and so are the chickens, except they don’t actually know it.
