So our chickens arrived a few days before the coop kit was delivered and have been living outside in Jag's crate kennel. That's 10 chickens in a 3x4 wire kennerl...yuck! So when the coop kit arrived yesterday I brought it home and started putting it together about 5pm. Luckily Austin and Ethan arrived home from soccer practice in time to help me! It was a great kit that was mostly assembled and actually had good directions, so we were able to assemble the run and the coop and put it together in about 2 1/2 hours.
Once the sun went down, however, it was really cold. It was actually snowing when we got the coop outside to where we think we want it to be. Then it got really dark and we were putting it together with the help of the flashlight app on Dave's phone!
The boys and I really did get most of it done ourselves. Dave arrived home at 6:45 and was just in time to modify the perches that didn't quite fit right and help herd the chickens into the contraption.
It was so dark and cold that the chickens would have rather spent another night in the kennel, but we shoved them into the house and hoped they would "get it". Some of them came back out and preferred to be under the coop. Oh well. I got up this morning and there are still 10 chickens and some of them have figured out how to go in and out. Perfect. We'll see if we get any eggs today.
I think it's going to be great!
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How fun! I want chickens! Duane would cringe at that but who knows one day we may have them in MO!
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