Neighbor J came over this morning to help me move the new coop into place. Quite a lot of sweating and grunting, backing and filling, “Nope, sorry, we have to undo this because I needed to do that first,” but we got’er done.
The ladies were underfoot and upset during the whole process, until they decided they’d had quite enough of this barbarous commotion and simply escaped to the junipers. Then when we were done we got uphill of them, chased a bit, and they decided they preferred their nice safe fenced yard.
Now I need to arrange the interior, mount the doors, and build them a ramp. Then re-string the overhead cover. Then…basically I’m going to be screwing with this for the whole rest of the day.
Looks good,but now you need more chickens!!
Billf
The “more chickens” part is why I’m going through all this.
I think you mean you need “more eggs” rather than “more chickens”. I believe “one or fewer chickens” and “more than enough eggs” is the ultimate, but unobtainable goal. On an unrelated note, I’m thinking of moving to a more hospitable climate- what is the square footage of your coop and how long do you anticipate the current tenants will stay?