Here Come the Chickens

Greg and Farmer Mike have generously donated their Sunday to building our chicken coop!  We are all very excited to soon be collecting and eating our own organic, farm-fresh eggs.  I have to start by bragging that Greg designed the coop himself and it was built using scrap/leftover material from all of the other construction going on - very talented resourceful.  Here are a few photos of the coop under construction:

Nesting boxes - This is where the chickens will lay their eggs.
A hinged door will be added so that we can easily collect the eggs.

Side view - The coop is portable, and the chickens will have
plenty of shade underneath the main body of the coop as well
as a fenced attachment to give them lots of room to explore. 

Another hinged door will be added to this side for easy cleaning of the coop
and a little ramp will be attached for the chickens to come and go.

The almost finished product (painted to match the yurt):

All that's left to do is hang the door and build the ramp.

The ladies are going to love their new home!  I will post an introduction as soon as they arrive.

*One last note, the coop was built under the new house so that the boys could work in the shade - this is not where it will stay!  As excited and grateful as I will be to those little ladies for their delicious eggs, they are still stinky and loud and will therefore live a good distance from us...

"So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according the their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.  And God saw that it was good."

Genesis 1:21