Today at 8pm the McCluckski family finally moved into their permanent home. It's been a long journey from having them on the first day to spending the last 6 weeks getting their coop done. The end result is a great home for the chickens and we think they will have a very happy life.
For the first time I was actually able to help Jason with the coop. Most of the construction was not in my field of expertise. However, today he needed help with painting the coop, which was right up my alley. We were able to buy some dark red paint at Lowe's in their discount section for only $3, which was great! We also had some white paint left over from painting the windows in both our bedroom and the nursery. We decided to paint their house red and used the white for their door and some trim. The color couldn't have been better...a nice "barn red". 
The last steps Jason had to complete today were building the ladder for the chickens to get from the run to the coop and covering all the sides with the poultry mesh. Of course it was about 100 degrees today, so when noon rolled around we both needed a break. Jason started work back up around 4pm when he was hoping it would be a little cooler. I went out around 7pm and helped him with the last stages. Thank goodness my dad let us borrow his staple gun or it would have taken probably three times as long putting up the mesh. When we stapled in that last piece and everything was complete, a huge wave of success rolled over us both (although I imagine it was a larger wave for Jason who did 99% of the work).
We brought the chickens out to the home. Below are some more photos I took of the chickens getting accustomed to their new house. The whole process was very exciting, especially for Bella. Although after about 30 minutes she wasn't even interested in them anymore. They are still having some trouble getting use to the ladder. Currently they walk down about halfway and then flutter the rest of the way down. We also had to help them into the coop at the end of the night. I'm sure it will just take them a couple of tries before they are experts.
I'm so proud of Jason for building a wonderful home for the McCluckski's. I'm even more happy that we actually have them out of our garage and the smell of chicken poop can stop traveling throughout our house :)
Here's a video I took of when we first put the chickens into the coop...
(I love the look on Bella's face)
What will be the next adventure for the Dzubinski's? Oh yes....Baby Girl is due in 8 weeks!
4 comments:
Looks good. Can't wait until I see it in person.
It looks like you did a great job. Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend.
Love,
Mom
Really impressive. It might just be my screen, but the color looks a little like Aggie Maroon. :)
Those chickens sure have gotten big. That one is so much bigger than the others (or at least it looks that way in the video). I'm looking forward to seeing them this weekend.
I love that you call them the McCluckskis!
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