Posted in urban chickens on Sep 30th, 2006
Even though she’s lonely and crabby, Agnes laid us our first egg yesterday, collected very early this morning. Of course, it’s a little bitty bantam egg, but it’s so cute! It’s a beautiful shade of light creamy brown. We’re going to save it until we see how often she lays. Maybe we’ll have enough to […]
Posted in urban chickens on Sep 28th, 2006
This is my finished coop - isn’t it beautiful? We have decided that it definitely isn’t “ghetto”. And all the neighbors are very impressed (I replaced the original pic with a better one so yes, those are other chickens you see in there…).
And this is Agnes.
Agnes is a one year old Serama mix hen. I […]
Posted in urban chickens on Sep 25th, 2006
Well, today we finished. The cedar shake is on, the roost box is finished complete with nest box, roost bar, ceiling, straw and chicken ladder. Now all we need is a feeder, waterer, feed and some chickens. I took a pic, but my email seems to have eaten it. Stay tuned as I’m picking up […]
Posted in urban chickens on Sep 21st, 2006
M came home early from his hunting trip. They weren’t having much luck and having already been out for 12 days, they decided to call it a year. So, in honor of his homecoming I recruited him to help me finish the roof. It’s on (turns out my trusses weren’t so straight so don’t look […]
Posted in urban chickens on Sep 18th, 2006
I awoke this morning to rain. A lot of rain. The kind of rain you don’t want falling on raw plywood with no roof over it. I ran out in my pajamas to put a tarp over my progress but it was already slightly too late. I think all of the plywood is salvageable, but […]
Posted in urban chickens on Sep 18th, 2006
This weekend I worked really hard, both days. And this is how far I got. Pretty good considering I’m not sure the last time I used a skil saw. To list out my accomplishments (for posterity and M):
Dug out for and set foundation pavers (mostly level)
Placed floor frame
Erected all 4 walls (square!)
Secured walls to each […]
Posted in urban chickens on Sep 11th, 2006
Today I started in on my chicken coop. I successfully used our friend Ron’s mitre saw to cut my 1″x4″ cedar boards. It’s been awhile since I did any carpentry projects on my own - much less used power tools by myself. It was fun. took me a while to get a system down for […]
