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| Author: | johs [ Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
Most people call mine the Taj Mahal. The old one was a converted Desk, when I only had three girls. Attachment: Desk coop.jpg [ 26.79 KiB | Viewed 5673 times ] The new one is a great improvement but was a project to build. Needless to say it is esential now I have my quota, maybe a couple of extra.  Attachment: taj mahal.jpg [ 22.17 KiB | Viewed 5358 times ] |
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| Author: | Hens and Hobbits [ Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
Hi, johs, Your Taj Mahal is very impressive  , lucky chooks! Barry and his harem are indeed living in a chook palace fit for kings!Is the old run attached to the Taj? Do you have anymore photos? Borrowed a great book from the library Backyard Chickens Guide To Coops and Tractors Edited by David Thiel. Wish I had the skills and power tools to build a proper not shanty Chook Town in my back yard! Don't think the neighbour's would appreciate more chook structures (and more chooks) popping up our backyard though 
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| Author: | johs [ Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
Thanks HH. Yeah I added a bit extra to the old run at the same time as the new coop was built. The old coop (desk) is now in use as a brooder on the back porch. Got to love recycling. Old run was 5m by 3m (the green painted bit). The new one is that plus an L shaped bit that wraps around the new coop. I have a couple more photos. I'll do a plan and post in another topic. There are some other photos in another topic already too. Sadly I want to make changes already.  I'm not bad with tools (by product of a builder Dad) but I don't have access to good ones all the time. |
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| Author: | Hens and Hobbits [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
Thanks, johs, Look forward to seeing the your new topic. Was its originally called the Chook Hilton? If you can borrow a copy of More Chook Wisdom from the library they have chook run/garden design layouts in it with the website of the landscape gardeners who contributed that particular feature in the book. |
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| Author: | buffy the sussex [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
mine's called the troll house. |
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| Author: | johs [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
Yep! I called it the chook Hilton but everyone else the Taj Mahal.  I have conformed to popular opinion. 
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| Author: | Sandra T [ Mon May 21, 2012 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
Mine is called the Egg Den but the kids call it the smelly place with the poo |
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| Author: | FowlMan [ Wed May 23, 2012 1:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
My kids are the same they hate the poop on the feet but they will go in barefoot when told not too 
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| Author: | Chicka-Dee [ Wed May 23, 2012 9:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
Ewwww Poo squishing between your toes! Gross! |
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| Author: | BigFishLittleFish [ Wed May 23, 2012 9:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What do you call your chook house? |
hahaha, i use to walk and play in the chook pen with no shoes on when i was a little kid. i remember it well... and those chickens were most defiantly not kept in cleanliness standards like mine are kept these days. i wouldn't do it now. but i remember it was nothing when i was a kid. if poop stuck to your foot you just wiped your foot along the grass when you got out... hahaha, wasn't a problem. 
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