1 So our carpenter friend, David, and his buddy John, are making us a chicken coop. They had a hole in their schedule open up, so David's wife wrote to me - "Let's get those boys chickens. They'll be done with the coop in two days." Wow! So I had to go over and look.
2 Here it is arriving!
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4 After borrowing lots of available hands to get it into the pen, and level, Dave arrives home to find me bringing mulch in to cover the gross ground and get it ready for hens to scratch around. Daddy is checking it out. It looks to me, though, like there might be birds already in there?
5 Oh! There ARE!
6 The hen door!
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8 The side window!
9 Mommy hen and her two young roosters. It's nice and snug in there! The coop is made from shiplap lumber from a yard which was torn down. I think the shiplap dates back to the 1930s? It is what was used to build before there was plywood. Really cool stuff. David did an AMAZING job with all antique, found items in his workshop. I can't believe how lucky we are!
10 This is what the view is like if you're a hen.
11 The next series of pictures will speak for themselves. The boys were just ELATED with the hen house.
12 Studying every inch!
13 That's their hen face!
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16 Popping up out of the nesting boxes!
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18 Chicken face!
19 Uh oh. I know what he's thinking.
20 Yup!
21 Oh no - the big guy, too?!
22 This will never work. He'll get stuck. Oh well - we'll just see what happens.
23 Hmmm...
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25 Oh wow! Totally did not think he would make it.
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27 Such cute boys!
28 Now we just need to build the run and go adopt our birds!
29 Always interesting to watch daddy, who is splitting wood for the fire.
