We went up to Chester, NY to the Tractor Supply Company and stocked up with a few things for chicks.

We bought a feeder, a waterer, a heat lamp and a bail of pine shavings. It was fun.

They had Leghorn Chicks for sale, $1.99 each. I almost bought one.

I quit about noon Sunday. I made some progress and the Taj Ma-hen will start looking much better soon.

I have to put up the molding and siding. I have to put up the roof and insulate the interior. If the weather holds out I will be doing siding for an hour after I get home from work this week. The siding goes slowly.

This weekend I want to finish the roof and put up the insulation.

After that I need to build doors, put up paneling on the inside to hold the insulation in. I hope to have the pen part built a little after the chicks arrive so I can put them out in the shed as soon as they can take the evening chill.

Chicks arrive the week of April second. April 7th and 8th I will be working on beehives because the bees arrive the morning of the 8th. April 14th and 15th should see the shed complete.

Here’s the quick video that I shot. It looks ugly with the roofing paper up, but it will clean up fast when I begin to make progress on the siding.

I am sorry for neglecting this blog fo so long.

Our Chicks arrive from MacMurray’s in early April, so I have been working on the Chicken Coop.

Final dimensions were:

8ft long by 64 inches wide. It is larger because we want it to serve as a garden shed if the chickens don’t work out.

I used 64inch studs so the inside height is about 6ft plus the peaked roof.

I built the floor of 2x6s and put a bottom board of sheathing on that and then flipped it and put some particle board flooring down. I then built each wall of studs separately, assembled them and put them up.

The floor/cinder-block foundation took one weekend. The framing took 1 weekend. Undoing the framing because Erica did not like where I placed the door took another weekend.

Raising the roof took one day and a partial sheathing took a day.

I mostly finished sheathing this weekend. I still have to cut out the windows and trim the sheathing.

TODO: I have cut limber for white trim on the corners, around the windows, and under the roof. I have to put on roofing. I have to put on siding. I have to build a door. I need to insulate the walls and ceiling. I need to put in vents. I have to panel the interior. I have to paint the interior.  All this in the weeks before the chickens arrive.

Here are some pictures of the framing progress, the windows are in place but just setting there to give an idea of what it will look like: