Building a workshed. Also, chickens

My grandad always had more success with Guineafowl than chooks. Less likely to get munched by foxes.
My colleague keeps a few ex-battery hens but they usually last less than a couple of months before they get eaten/stop laying/jump into spinning pto shafts.

The whole rescue chicken thing is dodgy as fuck. Battery farmers are paid for them, or they'd just kill them, so it's still supporting a shitty industry.

Yeah I thought it seemed iffy but it seems to be how 99% of hobbyists get their chickens.
I’m out of it anyway as don’t do meat/eggs etc so don’t have a real opinion beyond all animal agriculture being bad. Not the time or place for that debate tho!
What style shed are you looking at? I’ve become obsessed with TinyHouse/cabin building videos on YouTube lately...

Have exact same plans here, moved to a house with similar garden 30mx12m. We are going for the attached. It will be a gym instead of a bikeshed though, also planning on having the chickens at the back of it so they can do my produce my workout protein source.

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The basic idea is ten 5" oak uprights, set into pipes in a concrete base. It'll have a single pitched roof, overhanging the right hand side where the herb garden is there, and large window set into that wall. Probably some skylights as well. Waney edge cladding between the beams.

I've designed it there so the walls can be constructed from international and euro pallets, though it might not get built that way.

The greenhouse is coming from Kate's dad, has been stored in a barn for some time. Lovely cedar frame, with just a couple of battens that need repairing or replacing. Will be assembled onto a stub wall, with access from both the end and the shed, and we will live in a paradise of tomatoes and chillies

that looks like a respectable house!

That frame looks stunning.

true, it was a time I was living in a third of that. But who knows it might happens again if my wife files for divorce after spending my time training instead of working.

so jealous.

please bring fresh eggs to the next epping ride, thanks.

If we haven't eaten them all!

Plan is for six chooks. Two Orpingtons or Australorps for me, two Speckled Sussex for Kate, some kind of bantam for a friend and then something else undecided. All good friendly birbs

If we haven't eaten Pete hasn't sneaked into the garden while I'm at work and stolen them all!

Maybe we need a guard goose too

This is 200% right. And you will come to resent the delivery of large heavy sacks of chicken-feed, especially when the feckin fowl go on strike and stop laying.

You guys got issues.

The eggs are just a bonus, we're getting them because we want fluffy garden buddies.

Chickens are fucking great, fuck the haters Tom.

Congrats on the house purchase. If you ever have an egg surplus I'll take some... providing BN hasn't dibbsed them!

Also, I might be able get some back issues of Your Chickens from work if you want some?

Check this page out. Omlet instant chicken kits, not sure if they still supply chickens........

Other half went from Bees to chicken keeping, but not owning the house and having a smallish garden, the lawn would be ruined.

They even do little Hi-Vis vest for the chickens ? :)
https://www.omlet.co.uk/shop/chicken_keeping/eglu_classic/

Subscribed not only for shed but also for chickens.

We need a shed/workshop mega thread. I simply can't get enough of shed build threads.

It hadn't even occurred to me that there would be chicken-keeping publications, but of course there are

+1 for the Omlet Eglu chickenshack — genuinely foxproof. They are costly, but that is as nothing compared to the distress of finding your feathered friends torn to pieces by those foxy bastards. I speak from experience.

This

We need a shed/workshop mega thread.