Built this yesterday.......

[BUSHWHACKER]

....and added an extension.


Then collected and fitted a couple of cluckers this morning.......

[si tate]

Wow, the white one looks like it's ready for a fight.

[MWS]

Yum yum, chucky eggs..

[Bonk]

I'm scared to ask how much it cost.....

[stormforce]

Trying to convince mandy to let me have some chickens

[gwh200]

I built a chicken once.



Sorry...ate a chicken once.

[BUSHWHACKER]

Yay!
Just went out to check how they're settling in and one of them has laid an egg.

[Fricfrac]

It looks fox proof as well.

[Bonk]

My brother keeps bantams and when he first got them one of his mates bought six eggs, hard boiled them and put them in the coup. He phoned our mum all exited that his little girls had started laying already and as a little celebration he was having egg and chips for tea. I'd have loved to see his face as he tried to crack them into the frying pan.

Funnily enough, this episode has never been mentioned since.

[BUSHWHACKER]

It looks fox proof as well.

Oh, yes, I laid 25mm X 25mm welded mesh over the pallet base and then placed to coop on top and screwed it to the pallets. Then folded the mesh edges up all around and stapled it in place.
Filled in under the pallets with stone and chippings as well so it's rat proof too.
The hen breed is Araucana, they lay blue-green tinted eggs.

[BUSHWHACKER]

I'm scared to ask how much it cost.....

Coop/mesh/feeding hoppers/straw/food etc came to £180.

Hens were free!

[Fricfrac]

Oh, yes, I laid 25mm X 25mm welded mesh over the pallet base and then placed to coop on top and screwed it to the pallets. Then folded the mesh edges up all around and stapled it in place.
Filled in under the pallets with stone and chippings as well so it's rat proof too.
The hen breed is Araucana, they lay blue-green tinted eggs.

Good call, the ###### things are not known as being sly for nothing.

If we get them in the pheasant pens, we pick hundreds of dead poults up.

[Sclerotic Hen]

Your chickens look great. We have a couple of Araucanas and a couple of Araucana hybrids. We get green and blue eggs. One of them lays such pale blue eggs as to be almost white. Chickens are amazing animals to have roaming around - fantastic company if you are working outside although they can get in your way as they can think everything you are doing is a food opportunity.
I give our holiday cottage guests our blue and green eggs and save the boring but just as tasty brown eggs from our other hens for ourselves.

[KERRSURF]

Looks brilliant, I'd love fresh eggs every day.

[BUSHWHACKER]

Added an extension to the extension today........(Feckin' sun, got a red neck now!)


It's a sandbox, filled with kiln dried sand so they can have a dust bath.