Operation Chook is GO! March 15, 2006
We’ve ordered one of these. It will be delivered some time next week and Mark & I will assemble it. Yes, we could have built our own from scratch, but we decided to take the easy way out. If we’d been really slack we’d have got them to put it together as well.
Before the chook house can be put together I need to clear the space in which it’s going and make sure it’s reasonably level. That will be fun - I might even use the spirit level! Then we’ll need to get a feeder, a thing for water and somewhere rodent-proof to store chook food. And finally the birds themselves.
My ideal would be to get a couple of big birds that are unlikely to be fazed by dogs or toddlers. My brother has heaps of bantams along with my parents’ chooks up at his place, and it’s also tempting to get a couple free from him. My only real issue about little birds is that they’re little. Big ones seem a bit more like a real animal …
Mum keeps carrying on about ‘how will you use up all the eggs?’, but laying ability isn’t high on my priorities. A few eggs would be nice, but my real interest is in having the bugs and the weeds eaten and getting the soil turned over. And, now that Mum & Dad’s chooks have gone to live in the country, I can always give some of our eggs to them.
Oooo! Chooks and clubhouses and Oooo! So much fun. Go the big chooks. At least you will have big eggs for if you do decide that they are too yum to ignore.
Good on you for giving Foozle a cubby. I always wanted one, but never got one
Does it have no floor? Do you just carry it around from spot to spot? Careful of foxes, they dig under the edges. If you have napes, maybe you have foxies? For wire cages it is usual to dig the walls down a foot or so or to have concrete floors… I am not sure with your one… I can’t tell from the picture. If it has a floor you are covered…
I am planning to either have a wire floor or make a basic concrete one since both nakes and foxes are a possibility.
cool… very exciting