My Chicken Coop
As a gift of love, Dave built me the chicken coop you see in the photo.
Dave and I need to be on gluten-free diets. This means we can’t have any foods with wheat, barley, or rye in them. For the past 2 years, I’ve been baking / making all our breads and pastries ~ and learning how to locate and purchase gluten-free foods. Gluten is used in the most unbelievable and hidden food ingredients.
This all led to my learning more about healthy food sources; providing our own food; and supporting local farms.
Since much of our baked items require eggs, having a source of organic and healthy eggs became important to me.
One of our daughters got 6 hens and showed me how easy it was to raise them and get fresh eggs each day.
Hmmmm…. could I do this? Did I have time to take on another chore?
One of Dave’s co-workers just happened to have some laying hens she wanted to give to us.
“Thank you very much !!!” I was so happy to get them.
And my adventure began…..”Chicken Tales”.
Dave and I built a little coop for the hens who have been giving us great eggs.
Soon I realized that our little coop wouldn’t suffice for the winter. There wasn’t room enough for the food and water to be inside with the hens.
Live and learn and learn some more…. A new coop was needed. My wonderful husband spent a lot of his free time building me a spacious and efficient new coop. He used as much recycled materials as he could find.
fyi: In the photo, the box in the front of the coop, with the open cover, contains the nesting boxes. The hens lay their eggs in there.
