Apr 27, 2009

GRADUATION DAY

The chicks are out of the bathtub!

My son Josh built me a chicken coop for the newest members of the family.

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We are all about using recycled wood and whatever we have laying around so this is what he came up with.

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When I built my deck last year from pallets (see this post) I saved all the leftovers. The only money I spent was on a box of screws.

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He made a door that swings up on the side so we can access their house.

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He is going to put wheels on it so we can push it around in the yard and they can eat bugs and stuff and fertilize the grass.

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They love their little house but are not too sure about the coop part.

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They like their roost.

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And of course they like to poop! EUWWWE!!!

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Brooklyn is giving them lessons on climbing their little ladder back up to their house. And she has named them…

SALLY, BAILEY, FUZZ WUZZ, SMOOTHBERRY and BROWNIE.