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We recently purchased this garden hutch (to store chicken feed and a case of beer) and decided to add our own little details to it.
The hutch came w/ some really industrial hardware for the handles and lock.  We decided to soften it w/ our own version with drift wood we found when we camped in Montana 10 years ago! It is drift would from a lake.
It’s simple and matches the hutch so much better.  We also finished it w/ a hand milagro (Hands :: often speaks to craftsman and artists as a talisman of their artwork and their ability to continue to work.)
The hand milagro

was supposed to be a christmas ornament but when we received it by mail it’s too big for the tree…hence, we found a better place for it.

Back in May my wife and I purchased 3 little chicks for my daughters birthday.  After several months and lots of interesting stories about raising chickens (which I will post on) we received our first egg.

Here is the chicken coop I finally finished hours before our road trip to Quebec, Canada. The chickens hadn’t had a permanent home and since we were not going to be around for 10 days I had to whip something up.

I used the “chicken tractor” that we bought for them as chicks as the roof and I built a box as a base (4′ wide x2.5′ high x 2′ deep)  I set that on top of four cinderblocks, cut out a doorway, built a ladder and run that enclosed the whole coup.

The roof is on hinges so it can if off for cleanings and egg extraction and the run has a hinged roof that provides a bit of rain protection and allows me to stand up inside the run. Then we built a hinged door leading into the run.

Cost to build was approx. $150 which included some tools (drill bits, snips, etc.) I did not have. It does not include the cost of the roof which is the chicken tractor that cost $99.

I will shoot some video to give a tour and more details.