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HISTORY | DOGS | HOME | FOOD | GARDEN The Chicken CoopWe are officially on the Urban Chicken Bandwagon -- we just got the coop. The East Yard is now a dedicated chicken yard, and we are going to get six chickens. CHICKEN PAGES A while back we formed a chicken coalition with our neighbors Pat and Norma. Norma and I have been talking about getting chickens off and on for years. This last year I have been noticing on our walks that at least two houses within a mile of ours have chickens. Then just recently I joined an online group called Austin Backyard Poultry Meetup, which turns out to have 900 members! So this is hardly an original idea we have. As a first step, we took the local Funky Chicken Tour of coops around town in April, and then after much outstanding online research by Norma, we settled on a pre-fab coop from Brad's Cedar Shop in Sealy, Texas. Pat picked it up in pieces last week (that's mid-May, 2011), and we assembled it this weekend. It's all cedar, except the pressure-treated pine base, and that is a metal roof. Now, is this a fetching little chicken house or what? I wouldn't mind living there myself.
The entire building process took about an hour. Next: the chickens!!! No, actually, next we have to build a secure inner chicken yard to keep out all our little animal friends, most notably the raccoons. More on that when we get there. Comments?I would love to hear from you. Please let me know what piece you are commenting on. And I will answer you. Contact me → |
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