New Chicken House For The Rhode Island | Aussie Filipina Simple Living | Country Side Living

we are working on our chicken house new chicken [Music] house looks like they're getting the peins up today we bought um ganized iron for the roof the other day so but maybe they've been held up a bit with the rain but this is starting to take shape this is our uh it's going to be chicken house here and this corner uh that'll be a a walkway covered walkway there and this half will be the chicken run all the way down there the and then the roof will come over to this building here and uh we'll have a cover over the whole thing we're still going to get this water we need to manage the rain coming down here to get rid of that somehow drain or something there that's made good progress as well while we've been gone it'll be exciting to see this to get this finished um and give our chickens a new house so the guys are keeping going with the build of our chicken house at the moment we're doing the uh Hollow block here um underneath so that things can't get under and keep the chickens in and then putting using bamboo around the edge we got the roof on guys will probably do that today and then we're going to extend the fence around the thing there I'll be back tomorrow to finish we'll get the door on hopefully we can get the chickens in by the weekend going to be a good thing take care of them behind me here is uh our new chicken house it's not quite finished yet we uh we need to finish these shelves got chicken wire up the top all this has been done in bamboo on the sides the roosters have already tried to take over their new house that's their old house there but I think we're going to put these ones down in the a different chicken house down the back and this will be for good Birds roed o and red or whatever they are oh he's just come down um so we want to get the decent size eggs and so this is the house when we're going to really look after these chickens and they're quite expensive to buy Here ride all on red SS ones [Music] [Applause] today we've got our chicken house ready for the dog to live in and uh just put some saw dust down on the ground on the concrete and then here we put some grass in here now this is at the moment we've just enclosed this with a bit of mesh and uh because we've only got the two chickens so far what we're going to do is rehouse these ones somewhere else and this Coupe will have all of that run down there but for now we're just going to keep in here they've been in a tiny cage for oh gee months now isn't it darling so I hope they don't freak out in their new Abode but let's go see so here's our two chickens we've had these chickens now for oh it's got to be a good 3 months four months I think four months oh poor things they've been in a small cage cuz we haven't had a place to put them and this is their first time in a well it's a huge cage for two chickens but we're going to buy some more we just wanted to get this one working first and so they've just discovered I think the white ants that were in this we've had this sawdust there for ages and it's full of white ants I think they've just discovered them and look at them there they're going crazy on the white ants so that's good cuz we we don't want the white ants we want to kill them they want better way than to feed our chickens these guys were going to be in here they're they were in our our first test of a chicken house which turned into a bit of a disaster but we did get eggs so um this one's going to be scrapped but for now they're still living there and they have been blowing eggs in here but they've just come back after roaming around for a day and they've discovered now they can't get in here I think only one was laying eggs one or two black one one two of them the two eggs were laying two chickens were lying eggs in here cuz what we want to do is make another house for the we decided that the native chickens I'll go down the other area and this would be our home chickens here which will be the uh what do we call them red Island red and whatever this other one is so we want to get more of these guys they'll make better meat chickens and probably better eggs I think think bigger eggs so there might be a bit of a jealousy here I think tonight yeah they're jealous they look at they're looking what where did they come from eventually as I said we'll we're going to put the cage all the way down to there and have that open and they we'll have them working for us so this is the first stage and we just decided we were going to put these guys in there and then we thought no this is the one that's close to the house for our eggs and so um the native chickens we're going to put down there we're going to rebuild those chicken houses down there so they'll get a new house but it won't be for it'll be probably a couple of months away maybe so anyway this is our I guess first decent Chicken House we've got and um going to see how these guys go hey darling yes so these ones are our second group of pet chickens these are the ones that were going to get that house but now we've changed their minds they had the old house the original experiment and we've just we haven't even locked a door on them so we don't really have any Predators we get the odd snake but the last one was ages ago that we had any problems with um so these ones just pretty much keep up in this area you they seem perfectly happy here and they're laying eggs all around the place too another two apparently under the Nipper Hut the only trouble is that they jump up in the Nipper Hut and everywhere which isn't the best hey big [Laughter] fella hello so three of you three of you don't want to come out yet here's Mama she's the first one she's looking good and big daddy rooster we had those ones for 3 or 4 months and they're in a tiny cage I finally got this this cage built and they're just loving it aren't you you're giving us some eggs yeah you giving us some eggs and then there's the two bigger ones two of the five that we had that um Misty didn't eat or play with whatever she's done uh then there's another 12 and then the last lot is eight now five of them are in here running around that little whitish looking one there one I think maybe this fell and there's still three in here that are still too shy to come out I'm sure give them a little while they'll be we got any eggs we might have already check today only is one a day from this girl but uh it' be great so we got 24 now good when they grow up and we should have good egg production [Music] I [Music]