Hen House arrived!

[janeyo]

Geat stuff... read one of your posts and thought your new granddaughter was called Paul! The I re-read with the drink put down.....

What a fab pressie!

[Flummery]

I've got all the bits our of the boxes, counted them, ticked them off etc. There's no real hurry as we know we can't get the hens till the run's sorted. Still, it will be lovely to see it up!
We're building a platform for it - about 18" high - which will be surrounded by wooden sides to give them and their food a bit of shelter. And of course, a long ladder!

[Flummery]

Geat stuff... read one of your posts and thought your new granddaughter was called Paul! The I re-read with the drink put down.....

What a fab pressie!

Whoops, I should have put in a comma!

[shirlthegirl43]

We're building a platform for it - about 18" high - which will be surrounded by wooden sides to give them and their food a bit of shelter. And of course, a long ladder!

Brill idea but just to state the obvious - make sure you can get in easily to tidy up spillages and retrieve feed and water containers!! Nowt worse than realising all your hard work has made it near impossible to reach things (now where did I learn that one?)

[Flummery]

I've actually thought about that Shirl! Ther's be a door in that bit, just as there'll be doors in the run. I'm too old to crawl in!

[shirlthegirl43]

I just knew I was stating the obvious Just me that is a muppet then

[Hazel at the Hill]

I just knew I was stating the obvious Just me that is a muppet then

I don't think that you are alone - was it Nicos who said she was doing headstands to find her first eggs hidden away......??

[Flummery]

Not at all. If I hadn't spent the last 6 months fossicking about on poultry forums I'd be designing a fairly rum run, I suspect! When we first decided to get hens and
drew up some house and run plans, you'd have laughed watching us. You couldn't open the nest box because it hit the run roof.
The brilliant idea of having a sloping roof that completely hinged, ran up against the fact that you couldn't reach in over it one way, (it was 5ft high) or it drained the rain directly in the run the other way (and you'd have had to be standing inside the run to open it - the run at this point was 1 metre high!)
It's only because we've drawn out plans that we've found out just how many ways you can do it wrong! I'm sure we're about to find a few more!

[Snadger]

Congrats Flum.......piccies please?

I know you haven't assembled it yet but their must be a stock photo of it, is there not?

*How sad am I wanting to see piccies of other folks hen houses*

[Hans Mum]

*How sad am I wanting to see piccies of other folks hen houses*

theres a lot of sad folks on here then Snadger

welcome to the club Flum, cant wait to see your piccies

[MaureenHall]

Great news Flum Bet it's up by next weekend though! Are you hoping for some Easter eggs? (No, they won't be chocolate!)

[di]

Excellent news Flum...I'm another needing some piccies!!
I'd also get in touch with the chook lady & set a date...we found we worked so much faster getting all our finishing touches done once we knew we had to!!(when we phoned our seller we were given an option of having 10 that weekend...or waiting 2 months for the next lot!!)

[HayleyB]

oooooohhhhh, you are soooo organised Aunty Flum and you've a giant Kinder Egg to have fun putting together. Bet you can't wait now

[bluemoon]

Hmmm. I wonderd if she would say they're ready now and there'd be a panic! Might ring and ask what the situation is. Good thinking there!

If you tell her what you'd like and when you want it she'll probably try to sort something out. When I ordered mine the conversation went something like 'Right, I'll tell you what I'd really like, then you can tell me what's possible and we'll take it from there'. As a result I'm picking up a trio of Crested Cream Legbars and four Welsummer hens 'around Easter time', plus a few hybrids - whatever's available at the time. The hybrids may become Rhode Island Reds if he has some ready when I go to collect. This is not exactly what I'd dreamed of, but it's close. I could have got precisely what I wanted, but it meant travelling a good distance and in the end I compromised with the local chap.