My dad and I have a long history of building wacky projects together, so when I decided this week that I wanted backyard chickens I knew he would be down to rally for the cause. All it took was a quick phone call, and my dad and I were in Home Depot the very next day picking up supplies. We also picked up some much needed donated wood from my neighbor, Lauren {yay for Lauren!}.
As a little girl I had a playhouse on stilts with a wrap-around deck, countless rebuilt roadside bicycles, homemade kites, and wooden slingshots and rubberband guns {and to my dismay, so now do my young boys thanks to their Grandpop}.
I am, of course, photographing and taking video of the progress of my quest for backyard “peeps”. Here’s a little bit of Day 1 of the construction. The Facebook album can be viewed by clicking here or, if you’re not on Facebook, check out the Flickr album here.
In the process of doing research on raising backyard chickens in a suburban environment, I’ve found a lot of great resources online. Here are just a few great sites:
the coop at the end of Day 1
shoddy artist’s rendering of the proposed final product
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