The coop currently has a fence around it, to train the chickens to roost.  However it’s a tractor coop, so once the chickens are trained it can be moved around, allowing the chickens to fertilize different areas of land, different trees, various spots.  The coop is equipped with a beautiful white picket ladder, appropriately raised chicken wire flooring, a spacious perch, a breezy open plan doorway, and five nesting boxes with the potential capacity to hold up to ten chickens if they aren’t too fat or persnickety.

The eggs can be accessed via the back latching door, and a view of the perch and interior is clear through a side door.  It is our hope that these chickens along with this custom designed and built (collaboratively by Gail, Pennan, and Billy) will contribute to our hopes of obtaining greater sustainability both through the organic production of our goods and the tasty production of edibles, like eggs.

So… What’s missing from these pictures?  Chickens!  We have a few, but they’re running amok.  We will be getting some laying chickens.  “Perhaps tomorrow,” as Gail says.  Check back for an update…