Monday, October 11, 2004

Poultry Palace

It's official. The new Chicken House is now complete. After 5 or 6 weekends of plugging away at it, Clint put the roofing on and finshed the yards. I'm telling you, this is a deluxe set up. There are four rooms (separated by chicken wire, of course). A large room for the main flock, two smaller areas for Shelby's breeding stock or specialty birds, plus a walkway between them with shelving for storage and plastic trash cans for feed storage. Each room has it's own yard, so there are three separate yards, each with an exterior entry door and ramps up to a bird sized entry into the building.

Shelby is in chicken heaven! I am happy because the birds like the additional space, and I think we will be able to keep the new house cleaner because of our design improvements, such as a droppings tray under the roosts.

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