Unsecure chicken perches

[CatsCube]

My poor girls have been very bored the last couple of weeks kept in their coop, but finally its done.

 

I live in the middle of Norwich so I have a very small garden, its its about 6m x 8 meters, last time we had chickens they had a 2 x 6m run that dominated the garden. Since then we redid our garden, and I love it, its a lovely sociable and child friendly space, but as you can see no space for putting chickens.

 

However we had a brickweave driveway that runs down the side of the house and a useless patch of grass as a front lawn. so an idea formed . . . .

 

The brickweave was moved, so we now have an attractive and functional front parking area with planting.

 

But best of all I now I have a chicken garden!!!!! The main garden is kept chicken poo free and plants can live without being dug up or eaten and the dog can go out in the garden as she pleases without upsetting the chooks.

I have put some bamboo in which will grow too tall for the chickens to eat, the runs are on brickweave to so its easier to clean them out, and they have a lovely big dustbath just awaiting the bed being bolted in and filling.

[Minty_76]

Love it!!! What a great idea! Maybe you could come and do my garden too!

[ZoeBunny]

Looks fabulous!!

What a lovely space you have given your girls

[Sam]

That looks brilliant!!

...that red car

[scarlettohara]

Brilliant, that piece of lawn was totally wasted before. I have your blue chicken coop in pink

[Cinnamon]

Fab.

 

Gorgeous car too!

[Plum]

And you've fitted in 2 coops It all looks great. I love your little garden out the back

[poppy ben grace]

Looks fantastic, you deserve a very big pat on the back for all that hard work! It just goes to show what can be done with little space and alot of imagination! What an inspiration, thankyou for sharing it with us.

[CatsCube]

Thanks all. Its mainly my other half's DIY efforts. There will be a third coop (I will also be getting the pink one the same as my blue one) As its mainly for my pekin babies, hopefully once they are hatched and outside I will have about 20, 10 to each house, with the hybrids living in the go.

[poppy ben grace]

I notice you have a go, how do you get on with it? I too have some pekins hoping to hatch and have borrowed a coop from a neighbour for now but need to have a rethink about housing and such. I have a feeling if i manage to hatch any it could be the start of something big! I love pekins...

[sparkysmum]

Clever use of space - love the house

[CatsCube]

I love the go, I prefer it to the other omlet houses as the plastic is different and not porous, so its easier to clean. It all depends on how many birds you want to keep though, as for pekins I don't think they are the best use of space, and my wooden coop is a lot more adaptable for a larger number of chicks.

[Green Tea]

Love the garden ...... but ....... the car - WOW!

[karlotta]

The chickens are nice, but your Volvo is AMAZING!

[mollyripkim]

Your garden looks lovely, front, back and side, great that everyone has a place. Love the car as well.

[CluckyBucks]

Thats brilliant it looks like alot of fun for both chickens and kids

 

xx xx

[Chortle Chook]

Good on your OH for all that DIY It all looks super.

By the way, if you should want to plant your bamboos in the soil rather than keeping them in pots I've found that chickens make excellent bamboo strippers, keeping the leaves off the bottom part so that you can see the lovely golden or black bamboo canes. Otherwise you'll probably need to do the stripping by hand and that makes for some sore skin

[beach chick]

it looks great, child and chook and car friendly!