chicken yard

Our chickens finally have their own yard. They haven’t minded having free run of the whole back yard, but Rascal hasn’t enjoyed being tied and, of course, we can’t start planting the garden until they are confined. Although, I think they would like us to go ahead with it.

We mainly used T-posts but on the corner we used a short telephone pole.
I have no idea how we scored a telephone pole, but we did.

Lunch break of bean burritos.

The completed yard. We didn’t quite go all the way back to the fence line
because we want to put our bees back in that corner.

We also burned the three piles of branches that were here when we moved in.
Originally, we thought we’d chip them, but after finding a couple of
copperhead snakes in the backyard we decided to just burn them
and spread the ash in the garden.

It feels so very good to get something crossed off the goal list. I still can’t cross of the floors, because they are only “almost” complete. We still have to put in some quarter round in the boys room and install a couple of thresholds. But we still have 11 months.

jennifer keith

Friday 27th of January 2012

i'm happily 'jealous'!!! way to goooo!

SchneiderPeeps

Thanks, Rachel. I'm so excited you guys are moving back to the states. Although I'm sure living abroad has been a huge adventure. We've only had chickens for about a year so we're definately not experts but we've learned alot during this past year. I think you'll like having chickens.

Rachel E.

Thursday 26th of January 2012

Hey, it looks great! You give me so many great ideas. I love reading your blog. Anyway, I will be writing you often in the near future in order to get a little help setting up our chickens and yard. We will be moving to VA in a few months. Chickens are one of the first things I want to get settled.

Thanks, Patty. We have lots of mature trees but we do have an area that doesn't have any trees. I've wondered if the original owners had a garden in that area.

Patty

Wednesday 25th of January 2012

Wonderful, it always feels good to get things finished. I love all your trees!