Day: This is Taking Forever

Hubby thought it would take about a week to finish the hen house. That was, of course, before he realized he didn't order enough siding or enough plywood for the roof. The roof was easily solved: The Chateau de Plume will have a skylight. It's MUCH easier to transport a sheet of clear corrugated plastic roofing in a Mazda Protege' than an entire 8'X 4' sheet of plywood. Problem solved and the fowl get a skylight. Sweet, eh? Spoiled butt birds.

The siding, however, is a bigger problem, and one we are trying to figure out.

So, at the moment, this is Chateau de Plume, waiting for more siding, a door and windows. If you look closely, you can see where the skylight is.


Can you believe I had to talk Hubby OUT of putting linoleum down for those birds? Yeah, I did. Spoiled rotten fowl.

But you know, chickens have a bad rap. So many people think they are mean and dirty. They are actually fairly clean, if you don't leave them all cooped up in a tiny cage all day. My chickens love their free-range, organic lives and my yard/woods is a perfect bug-feasting ground for them. An all-day buffet. Some chickens are quite cranky, and roosters CAN be mean, but ours are all fairly tame and friendly. Uruly LOVES her chickens. And I think they love her back, if birds can feel affection for a kid, that is.

They probably just adore her for the food she carts out to them. And she makes a fantastic roost:

The chicken is Buttery. She is a Golden-Laced Wyandotte. The swimsuit has been Unruly's choice of outfit EVERY DAY since school got out. I'm about tired of looking at it.