Clean Coop

Kyle took on a HUGE project

for us yesterday!

Our chicken coop is FULL of

um

dirt.

Yeah, that's right.

Dirt.

We use a bare earth system.

(Some coops have a wooden floor

which means you have to put hay or

shavings down and then strip and clean

it every couple of weeks.)

That is SO not going to happen!

We built our coop with a bare dirt floor.

When we first moved the chickens in,

we sprinkled shavings on the floor every

couple of days.

And then every couple of weeks.

And now every month or so...

(if I think about it...)

Anyhow.

Over time the floor has built up.

(A lot of it IS dirt - those girls track in a 

LOT of dirt on their feet and in their feathers...)

(not my photo)

The girls love to take a dirt bath!

Which means they are DIRTY.

Anyhow.

Recently (over the past several months)

we have noticed we can no longer stand up

in the main chicken coop.

So...

I asked Kyle to clean it out.

And yesterday he DID!

Excuse me CJ - you're in the way!

That's about 18 inches!

He pulled a gazillion yellow wagon loads

out of there.

Enough to completely rebuild Buddy's stall floor.

And CJ's stall floor.

And fill the holes in Andy's stall.

And fill in the hole at the gate that Andy digs

nightly (while he is frantically pawing - convinced

he is going to starve while waiting to come in for food...)

And fill the hole behind the water trough.

And fill the holes around the outside of the coop.

And fill the holes in the pasture.

Good grief!

It was a LOT of dirt!

But doesn't it look great?

The girls were a little freaked out when they

tried to go to bed.

Somebody raised their roost by about 18 inches!

They were still fussing when I went out

to close the door last night.

They got over it though.

(I guess... I went to bed.)

THANKS KYLE!!!!!

I'm so glad he's home.