Chicken Coop Makeover

"It was just some boards of rough cut pine and a quilt of patchwork cotton"......oh no that was Brenda Lee's Big Four Poster Bed wasn't it? Not Rebecca Len's new rollaway nest boxes!!!
Yes they are also out of rough cut pine boards!!! That's OK if they actually work I wouldn't care what they are made out of. My hens are all apparently eating eggs. I have caught a many of them with egg on their face and I have heard that this will stop them. They can't eat what they can't catch right? The egg is supposed to 'rollaway' from the hen as soon as she gets up, and hopefully before she can turn around and grab it.

My dearest husband made these for me. I designed them and then of course he "tweaked" the design to his liking, sorta like our houses and barns and other buildings he has built me over the years ;-) I think they are kinda cute. I love the copper roof. I have always wanted a copper roof on something with a cupola!!!! Maybe my barn? Probably my next nest boxes if the hens will actually lay in them!!! I have probably scared them away from ever laying an egg again!!!

These are lined with some foam that we had laying around to prevent the eggs from rolling down to the wood and cracking. I hope to open this little door tomorrow and find a few great big white brown and green eggs in there!! Wish me luck on that one. Tonight after the hens went up I saw one of my big Buff Orpington pullets roosting in one of the holes....a good sign or not???

These new boxes and my friend Linda over at Praire Flower Farm inspired me to clean up the coop and decorate it up a little for fall. She is giving away a gorgeous curtain (or should I say 3 of them?) out of her own fabric that she designed. Wow!!! I am so impressed with her talents!!! Go on over and check her out. Her drawing will be held tomorrow. I think you still have time to get in the running. Good Luck!!! I could really use it in my chicken coop but as I never win anything.........I just settled on one that I whipped up yesterday. It is a sunny yellow the color of rich egg yolks.......do you think that will make them mad when they are laying their eggs and looking straight at those yellow yolks, I mean curtains?????

Old insulators jus because......

I can't get enough barn stars in my life.......

This is a vintage embroidery thread box that I got at a yardsale many years ago. I haven't really done anything with it til now......

I thought it would be a great place to store pens, scissors twine etc in the feed room.

Yolk yellow curtain

B&W version.....

I hope they can't reach this til at least Winter

Love me some white pumpkins.........my Goodwill ladderback chair

I got this idea from my dad.......a paint bucket hanging feeder for my laying mash.. .......I made it all by myself back in the spring :0}

Now here is the ruler of the roost.........meet Becky. She is my only white guinea and she is sooooooo the boss. I knew it from the start. She is just like me.......nosy, noisy, loud mouthed, pushy, needy, selfish, a pig, beautiful, annoying, a real mother hen, faithful to her brood and her friends, a fraidy cat at times, scared of bears, scared of spiders I am sure, messy, mean, ugly......oh no I already said beautiful so scratch that, ........etc. etc. etc............. She really watches over this farm. If you don't believe me just come for a visit!!!!!

I hope you enjoyed the little tour of Le Coup. It's not much but it sure is an improvement from what it was a couple days ago!!! After we were thru hanging the nest boxes tonight my dearest helper looked and me and said "Well it's about time you fixed up this chicken coop." ........I had to beg him to help me with this because he didn't understand why anyone needed to decorate their coop. He thought at first I had totally lost my mind. Again!!! But when he comes around to my way of thinking .............

Now for the sad stuff......... as I went to check on my little ladies in their new dive tonight I found one of my 4 month old White Leghorn Pullets laying in this new coop floor dead. Looked as if a dog had chewed on her. I had not been away for more than 15 minutes. Frankie is now in sooooooo much trouble. Frankie is our 5 year old miniature Dacshund who has never ever bothered chickens until today and he chased them all day long. Boy is little hiny in trouble.

God Bless You All!!!!!

Update: Saturday 11:29 AM They work!!! 2 eggs in one box and they rolled to the front uncracked!!!!

My helper found them and he was grinning from ear to ear!!! Leslie~~~ your dad/my helper said after this that he would come over and turn your boxes into rollaway boxes!!!!!