What do you call your chook house?

johs · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:36 am

Most people call mine the Taj Mahal. The old one was a converted Desk, when I only had three girls.

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The new one is a great improvement but was a project to build. Needless to say it is esential now I have my quota, maybe a couple of extra. :lol:

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Hens and Hobbits · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:59 pm

Hi, johs,

Your Taj Mahal is very impressive :-D

, lucky chooks! Barry and his harem are indeed living in a chook palace fit for kings!

Is the old run attached to the Taj? Do you have anymore photos?

Borrowed a great book from the library Backyard Chickens Guide To Coops and Tractors Edited by David Thiel.

Wish I had the skills and power tools to build a proper not shanty Chook Town in my back yard! Don't think the neighbour's would appreciate more chook structures (and more chooks) popping up our backyard though

johs · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:09 pm

Thanks HH.

Yeah I added a bit extra to the old run at the same time as the new coop was built. The old coop (desk) is now in use as a brooder on the back porch. Got to love recycling.
Old run was 5m by 3m (the green painted bit). The new one is that plus an L shaped bit that wraps around the new coop. I have a couple more photos. I'll do a plan and post in another topic. :-D

There are some other photos in another topic already too. Sadly I want to make changes already. hide:

I'm not bad with tools (by product of a builder Dad) but I don't have access to good ones all the time.

Hens and Hobbits · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:42 am

Thanks, johs,

Look forward to seeing the your new topic.

Was its originally called the Chook Hilton?

If you can borrow a copy of More Chook Wisdom from the library they have chook run/garden design layouts in it with the website of the landscape gardeners who contributed that particular feature in the book.

buffy the sussex · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:06 pm

mine's called the troll house.

johs · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:38 pm

Yep! I called it the chook Hilton but everyone else the Taj Mahal.

I have conformed to popular opinion. :-?

Sandra T · **Joined:** Mon May 21, 2012 3:04 pm **Posts:** 1

Mine is called the Egg Den but the kids call it the smelly place with the poo

FowlMan · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 1:54 pm

My kids are the same they hate the poop on the feet but they will go in barefoot when told not too :roll:

Chicka-Dee · **Joined:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:12 am **Posts:** 1194

Ewwww

Poo squishing between your toes! Gross!

BigFishLittleFish · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 9:38 pm

hahaha, i use to walk and play in the chook pen with no shoes on when i was a little kid. i remember it well... and those chickens were most defiantly not kept in cleanliness standards like mine are kept these days. i wouldn't do it now. but i remember it was nothing when i was a kid. if poop stuck to your foot you just wiped your foot along the grass when you got out... hahaha, wasn't a problem.

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