La Casa de Los Pollos

For the past couple of weeks we have been working on a family project. It has been really fun to make something so neat from scratch! (no pun intended). We spent evenings that Ken has off work building our own chicken coop. Is it coop or coup? I don't even know. Regardless, we're making a casa de los pollos. We have been discussing getting some laying hens for some time and decided we needed to build a coop for them. This is a picture of the boxes for the hens to lay their eggs. There are four of them.

This is the door on the rear of the coop where we will retrieve the eggs. We don't have any chickens yet, but when it is all finished we think we will start out with a couple. Next spring we hope to buy some baby chicks as well.

This picture shows the house pretty much finished. The only thing left is to paint it.

The kids were a big help...

but the most fun they had was playing in and on the little house before it was done. What is with Naomi and Ruthie's faces...sheeeesh :)