Houston, Tranquility Base here. The chickens have landed.

Best Husband in the World spent most of the day working on the coop. We need to add a little more plywood and shingles at the bottom (we ran out and decided top was priority overnight), add sides, and add a little edging thingy on the very top of the roof. But we're getting closer.

Clara is now trying to decide on names for her three new hens. There are two Black Australorps and one Buff Orpington. She has narrowed her choices down to these:

1.) Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

2.) Heggity, Peggity, and Peck

3.) Larry, Darrell, and Darrell

4.) Clickety, Clackety, and Cluck

Any votes?

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picnic table chicken coop

Well, I found a large, used, fiberglass picnic table for $25. Any reason why this repurposing job wouldn't work? We only want four chickens.

The run would be larger than this shows, I just ran out of paper. I'm thinking the table will be heavy enough not to blow around in a storm, but also mobile for when we want to change the grassy run. The chickens will get some free yard time, too. But they need a safe place for night time and when the cat is out.

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