chicken coup designs

i HAVE AN AWESOME CHOOK HOUSE AT HOME. But there's no need for me to shout about it.

Leave links here to online plans for chicken houses or sites that have info about raising free range, organic chickens or sustainable backyard setups.

Did you think the greenhouse area was a good site for us to start our venture?

Have fun!

I took these photos at the public Permaculture Garden at Hamilton Gardens. Here is a link to their website so you can contact them for more information about permaculture:

http://www.permaham.boo.co.nz/3103/html/prepage.html

new hens for home!

Hooray!

I got a new hen for home. She is a brown shaver called Mabel, or Mavis, or Maud, or something like that.

She is very sweet and has come out of a barn situation so so far she doesn't really know what to do in her new fabulous free range environment. Coco and Saffy are a bit wary of her and she is paying no attention to them yet. The other hen that I got with her [for my mum's birthday] is called Rosie [i think] and she is mean to May-belle [another option?]. She pecks her and Mavis/Mabel just cowers - its so sad. It's normal behaviour though - this is called "the pecking order". However, it doesn't really happen at my place as the hens are happy and relaxed and have heaps of room and food etc.

I hope you have the pleasure of spending some time with some chooks some day. They are very interesting to watch and make me happy.

What are you doing?

What are all the Room5ians doing? I have had several highlights - visiting my grandparents on ANZAC Day and having a really amazing date for my wedding anniversary.
What are you doing for your holiday?
Today I am following my chickens around wondering why they aren't laying, planting winter crops in the vege garden and walking the dog. To show how sad my life is, i just got excited over the idea of buying a new bail of barley straw to use for the chook house and the garden...

I bet your Kakepuku stories are coming along nicely - if you have written any on your blog, say so here so we can go and read it for you.

Term Two will start with finsihing our Kakepuku sotries and our digital stories about HamiltON.
After that we will be doing lots of maths, science and different styles of writing. Science fair is coming up too so get thinking about interesting topics... not things like "which fabric softener works best" or anything boring like that.

:-)