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Monday, April 13, 2009

Meat Chicken Room

I promised to show pictures of our new meat chicken room so here they are. I think the room turned out very nicely. We only used 10 2x4's, which a friend gave us for free, and some old 3/4in. 12" wide boards that were rotting in the loft of the barn. They weren't good for anything but this purpose, but they made dandy walls. We have rectangular wire fencing coming from another friend and that will complete the walls above the wood wall partitions up to the ceiling. I am pretty happy with how it all turned out. We are saving our pennies to build the big new laying chicken house so the meat chicken room needed to be a thrifty project. Mission accomplished.


This took up about 1/6 th of the old milking barn. The goats have another room we walled off in the opposite corner. They will keep the meat chickens company. Ollie, the pygmy goat, was actually living inside a chicken house with the chickens when we got him. He liked the birds and they apparently liked him too. Maybe he will feel right at home with the chickens.

This is a view with the door open. It also has a large door to the outside barnyard on the opposite end. This room may serve several purposes in the future. Doyle thinks it would be the perfect pygmy goat kidding room. I say we are full up with pygmy goats for now. We still need to put plexiglass over the old windows as they are not very draft proof. They should provide nice daylight for the birds. There are two windows in this room.

This view is looking out from inside the new room. Notice all the fishing poles against the wall. Doyle had started buying new poles saying his were all broken. I found at least double that amount in a massive pile with fishing lines securing them all together. I started cutting and amazingly none of them were actually broken, just tangled to the point he wasn't able to use them so he bought new. I fixed that for him and he is tickled pink that he has so many usable poles now.

And finally this will be their home when they first get here. It will still get cold at night when the chicks arrive on May 8th so the metal bar across the top will hang two heat lamps. This feeder/waterer is actually 5 ft. across, it just looks small in this picture.

That completes the tour of the new meat chicken room. I am happy with how it turned out. I like the barn a lot better now that it isn't full of crap scattered and piled up every where. It just about killed my husband to clean it with me but he did and I must say we did a good job. It didn't even take long once we buckled down and got it done. I love neat and tidy. Oh, I almost forgot...... my in-laws gave us a large old freezer that did not work anymore. It was cleaned when it broke and has just been stored for years. We will store a huge quantity of chicken feed in it. That way it is air tight and rodent proof. Now all I need are the chicks and I am all set!

12 comments:

  1. Very good Heather. Everyone should be happy in such a nice home. Hey I see you got the pic under the type. Yay!!!!! Looks like everything is coming along really great for you guys - lots of hard work though I can see that.

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  2. Wow, I'm exhausted imagining all the work. Good luck with the chicks!

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  3. Well done is all I can say right now... Translating dream into action is very much commendable.. cheers! ~ bangchik

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  4. Looks like you are all set for the chicks now. Looks good.

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  5. This looks just great, Heather! And I love the chicks' new home with the heat lamps. The whole thing looks beautiful and tidy! And dear Ollie, how fun to have him befriending the chicks. Of course, now you're making me want to get goats more than ever...

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  6. Whatever you do don't go and name the eating chickens. Griller is still in the freezer since my wife doesn't have the heart to eat him. It's funny too since she was the one who killed and dressed them.

    We only raised a dozen and keep ours 'free range' in a movable pen. We moved the pen twice a day to keep the ground clean of droppings and the chickens loved picking through the fresh 'grass' for little buggy tidbits.

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  7. What a thrifty idea. It sounds like something that would be right up my alley. I've mentioned getting chickens to Cheesehead a few times but he trumps me every time with the zoning restrictions for livestock. Do you think I could pass a couple of chickens off as pets?

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  8. Great project! Maybe they were old and rotting, but those 12 inch wide boards were a great gift! I don't know if we can even buy them that wide any more. Large trees are not as abundant any more, I guess. I am so happy people are salvaging the old, used materials for reuse. Smart idea to reuse the freezer, too. That saves a large chunk from going to the land fill. Good idea.

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  9. What a fantastic use for an old, broken freezer!

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  10. Nice. Looks like a great plan.
    Hubbie just bought the supplies for our coop!

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  11. Good job, Heather. It looks great. Oh...off the subject...Easter weekend wreaked havoc on my diet. Time to buckle down again! :)

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  12. Heather, you remind me of myself, about 20 years ago. LOL. I was very ambitious and jumped into projects with both feet. Now that I'm older I'm more selective about my 'projects'. :-) But hubby is still good to humor me most of the time.

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