You've been hearing me talk about it now on and off for months. We needed to relocate the hens to the back of the barn in the old stripping room for a myriad of reasons: they keep getting in the neighbors gardens, they got dirt and dust all over Jonathans's tobacco, they got dirt and dust all over EVERYTHING like the tractor and Rhino, they were digging up the barn floor so they could have dust bathes (actually, most of these you are seeing for the first time). So, here we are, on vacation, AKA "Fran and Tricia: Back To The Future Farm". And the henhouse renovation has begun!
Bright and early(ish) this morning, Fran jumped in the car and ran over to the farm to meet with the carpenter we had hired. Off they went. First order of business was laying a floor over the dirt, can't have those pesky racoons, fox and weasel tunneling into the hen's house. Here is the start of something big...
The room is 15' X 30', and is tons bigger than the space the chickens live in now. In fact, as the title suggests, Fran says this is a chicken mansion. The finished space will have nesting boxes located on one wall, and nightime roosts on the opposite, so the eggs will be cleaner to start with. There will be a roll up gargage door, so they can flow freely in and out during the day, and three windows, 2 on one side and one on the other for natural light and air flow. Here is the first of the windows.
We are also having the water run down to the end of the barn, and tunneling the new frost free spigot into the henhouse so they can easily be watered. Here is the last of today's shots, the floor, mostly done, as Fran and George, the carpenter, are shedding pounds of body weight as sweat in the 80+ degree heat.
More tomorrow as we get closer to moving the hens and (SURPRISE) 25 new additions!
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