The chickens have arrived! :)

Two, 12 week old, Delaware hens...

        - welcome home!

-what's for dinner?

My Beautiful wife, Antoinette...

- and me! :)

Pics of Finished Shelter

Finished product...

Demonstration...

Putting on the chicken wire... for $0

Side-note: just bought this Ryobi 14 amp Circular Saw for fifteen bucks via craigslist.com !!! Came with one nearly new blade. Fairly new saw. Beats using a handsaw for everything. :)
















Don't yet own a staple gun so I just used nails I already had in my tool box as well as nails recovered from the dismantled shipping crates. I cut the longer ones in half with sturdy wire cutters and then bent the nails into "staples." Later on I began pounding the nails 70% of the way in and then bent them over the chicken wire and finished them in. This proved much less tedious! :) Chicken wire generously donated by our land lady!

More pics and a video soon to follow of the finished product...

MCS (Mobile Chicken Shelter) update!

Here is a picture of the finished frame. This is Ted. He came over with his big boy toys (circular saw and power drills) and we finished in an hour what would have taken me the rest of the week using my hand saw and screwdriver... :)

Mobile Poultry Shelter (ongoing...)

Reclaimed and Reused materials implemented thus far:

1.) one 2' x 5' plywood board

2.) four 2' x 2' plywood boards (reclaimed from an earlier project at previous residence: shelves for an apt. pantry that had brackets for shelves but had no shelves! got tired of waiting on the on call fix-it man to show up... another story for another time!)

3.) couple of discarded wooden pallets

4.) metal hinges reclaimed from a discarded memo box!

5.) a roll of chicken wire generously provided by our Land Lady :)

Purchased materials:

1.) 1'' and 3'' rust resistant outdoor screws (Home Depot)

2.) metal lock latch (Do It! center...)

So far we have the frame and roost sections built and attached. All that is left to add is the chicken wire!