Weather was perfect for working outside this weekend, but another cold snap is expected this coming week. With that in mind we couldn’t plant anything in the garden, so instead we decided to work on a couple of buildings.This is a building we found within 30 miles of home on Craig’s List. We really didn’t know what we wanted to do with it but knew our growing flock of turkeys/ducks/geese/chickens all need shelter. Mark had replaced the floor as soon as we got it home, so it was ready to go once we decided what we for sure wanted to do with it. We decided to make it into a new chicken house so I can use the old one as a nursery to raise baby chicks.
We have a close friend who passed away this year, but he had told us he had some old sheds on his property full of chicken supplies. He said the sheds were in horrible shape, having collapsed long ago, but if we could get to it, we were welcome to anything in there. It was a maze to get to the goods, but Mark and I always consider something that ends up in free stuff a great adventure!
We got some awesome old chicken nests and a dozen old chicken feeders that were still in good shape. We headed home and unloaded all our treasures!
We replaced a few nest bottoms that were rusted out, hung it on a side wall of the building, and replaced the bars on the front.
Mark built a roost on the other wall. I filled the nests with straw, put two ceramic eggs in two of the nest so hopefully they will get the idea!
We did all this on Saturday so I was kind of disappointed when Sunday evening came and I didn’t have any real eggs in my new nests. It will be at least two weeks before my new chicks come in so I’ll just let the hens wander in and out of the new building and hope it will grow on them. If that doesn’t work, I guess we’ll have to lock them out of their old building to nudge them to use the new. I mean what hen wouldn’t be thrilled to deliver the goods in this new luxurious nest?!?
Simple Life Blessings 