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Chicks On The Move

Mountain Man, resigned to my latest adventure in chick raising, got busy right away finishing the chicken coop.

“It won’t be the way I planned it but I’ll get it done and you can use it today.”

“Today, are you serious?” I was overjoyed.

“You won’t have your outdoor run for a while because I have to regrade the land around the barn but they aren’t old enough to be outside anyway.”

I didn’t care. I was so thrilled my rapidly growing babies were moving.

As always, the ever precise Mountain Man dragged out his calculator and figured how many chickens we could have if each chicken required one square foot of living space.

“We’re fine. You can have 50 chickens comfortably and that is never happening. Right?”

“No” I promised.

This morning he got to work. He boarded up the opening between the stall with plywood. (I was supposed to have pine boards) and then built the door and installed lighting.

“Basic stuff for now so we can get them moved.” But to me, it’s all beautiful.

Here’s a ton of pictures.

Building the door:

While I was cleaning out the chicken room, I found a snake living in my hay bales.


Mountain Man shooed him outside and sealed up the gaps in the coop. No, we didn’t kill the snake. Just relocated him away from the barn.

Next job; install the lighting.

We released the chicks.

It wasn’t long before they were checking out their surroundings.

And inspecting the hay.




Oh, to nap in the sun without a care in the world.

Life on a farm is never dull and always full of joy. Thanks for visiting our brood.