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So much to learn!

This article is a keeper!

48 Ways to Keep Your Chickens Happy this Winter

Actually, I found several on the same website, Abundant Permaculture, like:

Chicken Power: 8 Strategies for Putting your Flock to Work

and

Get More Out of Your Chickens (with less work) – Nine Crazy Simple Design Concepts

Just to name a couple!

Oh, and, Justin’s Youtube videos about chickens are amazing!

The Area

The only thing I know for sure (but of course is subject to change ~ like everything else), this is the location we are planning for the Chicken Coop and Permanent run:

You'll see my little "garden" house off to the right... which has turned into a shortage building (aka catch-all).

Back to reading and learning...

Oh, I bought a magazine the other day at Tractor Supply Company... "Backyard Poultry"! I can't be happier with the first ever magazine on keeping chickens!

It Begins!

The decision has been made! We're getting chickens! But, not quite yet. We have a lot of preparing to do! Our goal - Spring 2018!

Future site of the permanent coop and run:

I was facing due north when I took this picture.

As it is right now, there is a Mesquite tree on the left, a compost bin, then a Crepe Myrtle Tree(?). We purchased the Crepe Myrtle as a "tree" but we're thinking it was incorrectly marked. It's a bush. We've kept it trimmed ~ to a certain existent. Oh well. I love it. When it does bloom, they are delicate white flowers.

I'm thinking the coop needs to be on the left side (west) with the run extending toward the east. We'll see...

Right now I'm gathering information, reading everything I can, watching the marvelous Youtube videos folks have shared, and asking lots of questions on the Facebook groups I've joined!

Stay tuned!