Its a hen party!!!!!

This past weekend David started and finished the new chicken yard!  Its bigger and better than before, and here are the pictures to prove it!

A picture of David finishing up the removal of fallen tree. Parts of it are going to make some great fire wood!

David went into the woods to look for fallen sapplings (instead of cutting new ones down) to use as the post for fence yard. He dug a 3 foot hole for each of them to be buried in. This picture was taken before they were straightened out.

Here's the first part of the chicken wire going up. Nailed to the tree with special staples to keep it in place.  There is also a foot and a half section that lays on the ground. That section will be staked into the ground and logs or rocks added around it to help prevent any digging.

Here's the coop and the door on a hinge that David built. You can also see the second tier of chicken wire added making the wall of chicken wire at least 5'5". Also the betties on their maiden voyage out into the yard.

The exposure on the picture is a bit bright so I apologize.  The back view (trying to get most of the yard in) You can see in the background the "Fort Knox," part of their yard. ( low lumber built yard) If we want, we can block off that section only allowing them to remain at "Fort Knox," or open it up and allowing them into "Shawshank."  (I named it Shawshank, because despite the well built yard, and the confidence that no one can escape- we have some pretty smart chickens that I don't doubt will try to escape when they figure out a good plan.) The new chicken yard is about 2000 square feet. Its rustic looking which I love. Using materials from the yard makes it pretty green which everyone calls the new black?! The gals were so excited to come running out into the yard that they ran and flapped around for about a half hour, before settling into a scratch, scratch scratch, routine.