Our New Coop
In May we are expecting 7 baby chicks and we are thrilled! There's nothing like the taste of eggs fresh from your backyard. I've spent the last month planning, designing and building a chicken coop for them to call home. I've never built something of this size before but wanted to give it a try. I honestly designed as I went along, no plan, nothing. Well, I kinda had a plan but it kept getting tossed cause it wasn't working. And it was going to be painted white but then I received the Williams-Sonoma Agrarian catalog in the mail and I fell in love with cedar, which happened to be on sale at Lowes. So there ya go... I was trying to keep it easy and cheap. And it's not perfect but nothing I ever build is. It will do it's job and that's what matters. The bricks were all found and I just did a random boring pattern because I don't have a brick cutter and didn't want to mess with it. I'm crazy about the barn door on the end. Can't w...