Thanks to Brett Gelmi for
these photos of his recently finished coop
"G'day Gina, Happy New Year to you
and your faithful readers. Keep the
good stuff coming. I have attached some photo's of our recently
"finished", (are they ever really finished?), chicken
coop and run. We live in the locality of Leschenault, which is
about 200 km's south of this states Capital, Perth, in Western
Australia. Our two eldest children (Reece 13, Telisse 11) assisted
during my 5 week holiday over the Christmas period, while the
youngest, Maddison 2.5, watch and shouted encouragement from the
sidelines. The working conditions were poor, 40 plus degree Celsius
heat, very dusty conditions, and the dirt is very powdery and
difficult to dig, but we managed it.
The reason for the coop's "bomb shelter"
like construction is mainly due
to the local fox population, and the roaming neighbourhood dogs
that
painfully dispatched many of our chicken's predecessors. Australia's
tight gun control policies prevent me from hunting down the offenders
and bringing them to swift justice. True to good ol' Aussie ingenuity,
I
have used a lot of recycled material in the coop's construction.
This
helps to lower costs and landfill.
We currently have 5 chickens in total, two
roosters, three hens. Not
sure of their exact breeding, but four of them are from the same
brood
of Bantam crosses, the brown hen was a gift from a mate in Collie,
east of our location. He describes them as long-legged super chooks?
