Keeping Chickens

New Chicken Coop

It definitely feels like ’spring’!

Julia and the boys want more chickens to add to the flock, so in preparation, we’ve bought a new chicken coop.

We went for another self assembly chicken coop from this ebay seller - Garden & Pets. The name of the coop we bought was Large Chicken Poultry Hen Coop House Removable Tray c3t, and at the time of writing Garden & Pets has made over 8600 sales and has 99.2% positive feedback rating.

new chicken coop

We ‘won’ the chicken coop with a winning bid of £86.50, which we thought was a bargain price, for the quality of this chicken coop is plain to see in the image.

The seem to be a ready supply of different styles at different budgets listed on Garden & Pets‘ ebay shop.

Within 24 hours of our ‘winning bid’, the chicken coop arrived via courier and I must say that Garden & Pets‘ delivery time was fantastic.

Now all we need to do is build it, (I’ll attempt to do a photo journal of this like the last time) and treat it to try and prevent the red mites being able to take hold.

We’ve been thinking about getting some Cotswold Legbars as they lay a ‘blue’ egg. It would appear that Cotswold Legbars are as rare as ‘hen’s teeth’ in our area, and we may end up paying Philip of Legbars of Broadway a visit to get hold of some.

We’ll update with more on the new additions to the flock and how we get on with the new chicken coop shortly.