This Labour Weekend, we decided to set about doing some civilian engineering and built a small extension to the chicken coop.
The chookateria was taking up a quarter of the floor-space and getting rather messy under the perch. And the water dispenser was making the sawdust soggy. So we've moved the food and water outside now and hope that the coop will stay cleaner.
The best thing about the extension is that we made it from bits and pieces that we had lying around - the chicken wire which had made the original temporary run, stakes from the trees which the last owner planted, a scrap pallet, the leftover plywood from the biltong box and some offcuts of building paper from the shed repairs.
But the most important resource was the bird seed which distracted the chickens whilst we worked.
Eventually, we'll add a self-watering unit with water from the roof flowing into a tank and then, in turn, into a stock trough with ballcock. Need a few more bits and pieces for that though.
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