Coop De Ville

This afternoon we put up the chicken coop.

I was a bit apprehensive but we have a CP 047 c/o Cumfy Pets for the BGS chickens. Fox proof galvanised steel wire and sliding bolts. Inner sliding door between the run and the living area. Perches and a 6ft run. All in treated wood. I've gotta say, it was a piece of cake.

Finished in an hour, construction was blissfully obvious and it went together no problem at all. Okay, so the instructions weren't exactly Ikea, but it was built in a way that everything lined itself up nicely as soon as you offered one bit of wood up against the next. With some extra help from Oldspot, taking it easy and chatting to guests etc., it flew up in no time at all. Not too long to spend outside doing brownie-point-earning chores before sitting down to a Sunday dinner with the satisfaction of getting it done.

Nice well fitting coop actually. Tight, cosy, lots of sensible design decisions against the likes of Redmite and for ease of cleaning/access. All that and it looks good, all be it in a solid kinda 'chicken Wendy house' kinda way. I can't really fault it. Lets see how it does in use (once we find a few Ex-Bats) but it went together great and I'm notoriously 'domestically handicapped' in the DIY department.

One recommendation. If you have a power screwdriver get it out before you start. We had a ratchet driver which did the job nicely.

Okay, I'm off for a shower. Check out the video above for time-lapse web cam ( just to prove it was as easy as it was) and please vote of the chickens names in the poll on the site.

I can almost taste the omelet.