Chicken Inn?

In an effort to both wile away a few minutes and distract myself briefly from the "business" of tomorrow's run, I began digging around on-line to see if there were any chicken coops which would be suitable for my small urban yard. My first thought was to convert our existing shed (we have no garage), but after a further consideration, that proved too challenging, especially for one who has in the past shown little prowess with building... moi.

Next, I went to one of the websites aI had mentioend previously as a resource, Backyard Chickens.com. There are a number of different sample coops submitted by other "farmers" ranging in size from tractor (very small and mobile) to large. One particularly desirable model was purchased from England via E-Bay (shock!), and had been dubbed by it proud American owner, Eggs in the City, pictured to the right). Always a sucker for a good pun, the model immediately became the front runner for my imaginary chicken-coop of the mind.

This coop will likely remain a retirement dream as, truth be told, we don't eat that many eggs (the seventeen mentioned by Kath of Blurb from the Burbs in a comment to the previous post would last about a month in our house)... though as I was typing this my wife said we could get some chickens if I would take care of them, then followed up with "what do you do with them during (the very cold and snowy) winters?"

"Bring them in the house?" I answered, clearly not prepared for the responsibility... yet!

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