I love making pocket holes to assemble the screens doors for the coop runs! I setup a kind of assembly line to drill the holes for the doors using a Kreg mini jig.
So after drilling the holes and assembling the frames, I covered them in poultry wire and my eldest helped me hang them. We can now rotate the chickens through three runs! Yay!
On my Mom’s suggestion, I took the dust bath mixture and put it where the chickens were dust bathing. I scooped it out and spread it over the dirt. This area of the main run is almost always in shade and most of the time has a breeze going through. It is one of their favorite spots when it is hot. And it has been so hot!
I need to secure my bench better. It rather defeats the purpose of a fold up bench if the chickens roost on the edge and poop on the top any way. I think a hook and eye will do the trick.
And yes, there is still cardboard on the path. I will eventually get decomposed granite to put down, but it is too hot to think about it now.
A ray of light from my garden to you.
My honey suckle is blooming again too. Nice!
Well, at least a completely different reaction. To cockroaches. I opened the cupboard in the coop and a cockroach was clinging to the door, so I flicked it off toward the chickens (who are now always at my feet awaiting tid bits). No screaming, no shivers of revulsion, just expedient extermination. I didn’t get the greatest picture, but you can tell the chicken has something in her beak!
Critters and Craft 