Building the coop part 2 (and other fun pictures)

The chickens have been living in their house for over a week now, and they love it!  We love it!  It's so cool seeing this neat barn coop in the back yard.  All the hard work really paid off.  I also love that my house doesn't smell like a farm so much anymore.

On to the pictures and coop building...
First up, painting!  We all got to pitch in a little bit with the painting.  Even the kids got to help with this part, but Michele did do a majority of the painting red and trim work.  It was fun for the kids and I to help when we could though.

April made a "beware of chickens" sign.  We saw this idea somewhere on the internet, and she thought that was pretty funny.  Not sure where we should hang it yet. Michele painted that white chicken on the front himself!  I think that may be my favorite part of the whole coop. Next up, the roof.  After the painting and the wire attached it was time for the roof, and we were all happy to see that there was an end in sight.
A shot of the door where the chickens can come down from the loft area to the run during the day.


Aaron sure loves his black beak.  She's getting big. So big that he has to hold her like this.  He's getting pretty good at catching her and holding her.  Maybe we'll look into showing at the fair. This is a shot of the roosting bar.  It's actually a branch from the butterfly bush we took down recently.  As of today they still haven't gotten on it (at least that we have seen).  We're not sure why.  Too high?  Too weird?  They just haven't noticed it?  Not old enough to be interested in roosting?   It's bolted down so it's not wobbly at all.  Don't know.  We'll see how that goes. All the boys loved watching Daddy with his tools, and were always willing to "help".  I think Daddy is so happy here because he's putting the last thing on, the latch, before it was done. It's all ready for some chickens to move in! Are you ready black beak?  It's movin' day!
I think those chickens are ready!
I think they like it...
Oh yes, all kinds of stuff to peck at in this grass!  This is the life!

In other news we've officially used up our first chick feed bag.  Hopefully soon we'll be able to make a re-usable bag out of it real soon.  I have the directions to make one, and they are so handy.  I'm excited.  Hopefully I'll get to post pictures of that soon.

Desiree