Meet Our New Chickens

This is our chicken coop!


While I cleaned and scrubbed the new coop, Simon played guns.

And then Elijah got in on it.

Here's a picture of the actual work being done.

After Paige and I got the "coop" clean, we built little chicken steps.

It was pretty difficult in fact. I'm so certainly no carpenter.

Here's Paige trying. She did a great job.

We are using an old dog pen as the run for the chickens. It hasn't been used in a while and needed some TLC.

We got our Granny out there to help us move the run to the new spot. Thanks Granny!

Then we put our coop on cinder blocks and put the steps into place.

We still needed to add straw or hay.

After wee got the coop in, we put a tarp over the run. Here's Granny helping by inspecting our work. She passed our chicken area.

Then the little boys wanted to look and play for a few minutes.

Several Hours later...

We got home with our chickens! We got 4 biddies and 4 pullets (one of them is going to the Slaughter family).

Once we got all the chickens on the ground, it was mass chaos. Chickens flapping, little boys chasing.

Simon found the bigger ones easier to grab.

4 to chose from, which one to get?

This is Paige's favorite.

We "played" with the chickens for about 10 minutes.

Elijah liked the little ones because they're easier to squeeze.

Simon kept trying to make them go into the coop.

I liked the biddies better too, but not because they're easier to squeeze.

Put one down, pick one up.

"See my chicken?"

I'm not really sure what these gals are doing.

Here's a close up little Jack or maybe Jackie, only time will tell.

We put some food out to help them adjust.

Once again, chaos broke out.

Poor Elijah almost lost a toe.

We named our 3 pullets Altha, Darlene and Maybelle. After we take the "spare" to the Slaughters, we'll decide who gets what name. The 4 little ones are Jack/Jackie, Eric/Erica, Sam/Sammy, Whit/Whitney. We'll finalize that later.

God really blessed us with the whole chicken thing. Everything we used to house them was already one site. The old dog kennel, the wood for the steps, the dog pen and tarp were just laying around. It's pretty neat to be "thrifty" and see how things turn out. I'm discovering that most everything I already have can be made into whatever I need, sometimes with just a little work. (It's amazing how good poverty can be for you!)

In Christ,

Aubry