Finished the coop, and the house continues to move along

Well, my 2nd full time farming stent came to an end on 9/28 when I started commuting into Atlanta again on a 3 month contract at WellStar.  So it's been a pretty hectic 4 weeks and I'm just now getting around to doing another blog post.

The good thing about it is the house seems to be exploding with progress.  The trim is up, the walls are painted, and probably the coolest part of all is that the huge front porch and back deck are up.

We also finished the newest chicken coop project and have been struggling to get the upstairs chickens to make the move into their new coop.  Fred and Darla and the Americaunas always head right back up to the upstairs coop when we let them free range downstairs.

Well, here's the pics from the past month or 2:

Norman enjoying some strawberries

Working tirelessly to finish up the coop

View of the house

The goats "working" to clear some land for us

Ezra carries some scratch to the chickens

That's a gang o'chickens!  

Ezra found a big ole mushroom

The house is green!

Ezra checks out the fireplace in the new house

Jason and Ezra do some mowing

We finally got the coop secured

Dot was the first chicken to figure out the fancy nipple bucket waterer I made for the new coop

We finish the goat shelter and they got some good use out of it

Enjoying some hay

Jason cut down a couple of dead trees

 A couple of chickens were really eager to try out the nesting boxes in the new coop, before we could even get hay in there

Our doors in the new house - I think they're awesome!

The hardwood floors got installed

That's the kitchen

We had some stumps ground a couple of months ago, and we laid down some fescue seed in early September.  The grass is starting to grow and should be ready for the animals to graze in May or June.

I noticed Opal's milk sack filling up, so we moved her and Ruby back into the fence to keep and eye out for goat kids.  Still waiting...

Ezra letting Mama Llama get somebody else's food.  Dot tries to get some too.

Animal feeding apprentice

We moved the gang o' upstairs chickens down into the new coop.

Jason digging more holes for the fence in the front of the land

The front porch begins...

Now we can sit on the front porch!

More hole digging up near the front of the land

Enjoying the front porch :)

Another view of the chickens in the new coop

Columns and bricks were added last week.  Fans also installed on the front porch.

Ezra's room

Upstairs guest room.  Same color as the master bedroom and bath - it turned out nice.

Looking good!