Although it was Father's Day here, His Lordship & I spent the afternoon in the backyard-mowing, trimming, moving strawberry beds and cleaning out the chicken coop.
I don't think that I've ever shared the interior of our hen's home-they spend the day outside free ranging in the orchard- with access to the coop via a ramp. The layer pellets, water & nesting areas are inside.
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| You can see the sawhorse roosts, galvanised bin for pellet storage and feeders (all of which are raised on bricks). The floor is a concrete slab; which we cover with some form of straw and then regularly replace ( with the manure rich old straw going on the garden) |
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| Wilma wondering why I'm standing there with the door open! |
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| There is one nesting box built as part of the shed-shown here being entered by a headless chicken! |
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| Looking back towards the door & ramp-we have used an old plastic dog kennel as a nesting box..the lid lifts up for easy access to the eggs. |
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| The Committee of Management waiting for me to vacate! |
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| The old manure laden straw is placed on one of the fallow garden beds. |
