When we got up today it was not raining so we knew we needed to work on our outdoor projects because you never know if it will rain the next day or not. Darrick is not on leave until Thursday so it was up to Papa and the boys to build until he got home.
Build what? you may wonder. Well, we are getting chickens! I have wanted chickens for a few years but the timing was not right. But now that we own our own home and Darrick is not deployed, everything is falling into place.
We were thinking about building our own chicken coop, but we found the perfect coop on Craigslist for a great price. It was just made and needed exterior paint so that was my job today. Darrick thought up the idea of painting it like a barn and I loved it, so that was the paint scheme I followed.
We also need to make a fenced in yard for the chickens to live in. We were going to build that too but when we figured out the cost, we discovered that we could buy a dog run for the same price.
Micah was in charge of the directions and Papa and Jacob were the workers!
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| Before Paint |
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| Digging a trench to make the "chicken run" level |
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| Darrick and Papa leveling it and filling in with bricks and wire |
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| DONE |
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| Micah inspecting the work & Nana checking it out |
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| Now all we need is chickens!!! |
1 comment:
I look forward to watching your chicken progress!
We have also taken on chicks (4) in our family. They are about 3 weeks old. So far so good! We are really looking forward to the end of summer when we will have eggs! (Sylvia S)
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