The house is my design and made mostly by bits of wood, iron and netting that I have found on scrap heaps around the property. I am vary proud of it (so far). And lets bear in mind that one of the posts was warped so I had to work around that!
The framework
The end and inside done
The interior almost finished
I still have to finalise the interior (put some lino squares on the ply for the nesting area - makes for easier cleaning), drag a larger piece of tin over for the roof (the current bit is a temp measure to stop the rain getting in until then) and put the doors on for easy access to all those eggs the girls will lay! The tin roof is supposed to slope so that I can put some guttering down one end and harvest the rain water for their drinking water.
Now we need some names for the girls. Caitlin wants Henny, Penny and LucyLoo (she wanted to name the white chook LucyLoo (Lui)!)
I'm thinking Miriam, Esther and Rachel - Jewish chickens.
Michael has suggested Henrietta, Harriet and Honoria ... or Keziah, Jemima and Keren-Happuch (Job's Daughters)
Give me some ideas, folks.
2 comments:
When Maya's Dad adn I lived on 126 acres and had a whole passel of chooks we gave most of them names too. We had The Pointer sisters (three lean black girls), Ms Mansell (After Nigel Mansell - she wasn't quite black and not quite white), Henny Penny, Little Mother (she was the best mother chook ever). Little Aunty (who, despite her best efforts never managed to produce a single baby of her own). There were others but right now their names escape me.
Morrie said your chook house is really good and wants the plan.
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