Thanks to Lisa Silver
Frankel for these photos!
"This past summer, our family
decided to raise chickens. We built a coop and a run.
We purchased, what we thought to be eight hens. A gal
in a neighboring county sold them to us. The chicks
were 2 months old, except one 12 month old, when we
got them. Later, two of our hens turned-out to be roosters.
Since all are named, none of them will wind-up in the
soup pot."
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'Jasmine'
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'Rock'
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Here are a few pics
of the coop we built. Note that the inside contains a
ladder on one side and an array of 12" (h) x 12"
(d) x 12" (w) (2 x 4) cubbies on the other side.
The reason why the structure is vertically oriented, roughly
4'-0"(d) x 6'-0"(w) x 7'-0"(h) is that,
my husband wanted to construct it as a tool shed, just
in case we proved poor chicken farmers.
I am happy to say, (knock on wood)
raising chickens continues to be successful.
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