Silkies in the Garden... Part 2

This came from the magazine Backyard Poultry by Gail Damerow.

Now I needed a coop to keep them in. The site of the former garden coop has long since been converted into a log-cabin tool shed. And besides, I didn't need anything that big to house a few small bantams. Something the size of a doghouse should be quite adepuate. While wandering through a local farm store we saw just such a doghouse. Retrofitting it for the bantams seemed like a simple job, so we brought it home. The The task turned out to be more involved than we had anticipated, but the result is just what we had in mind, as described in "Doghouse to Bantam Coop Conversion" on page 28.
                      By early summer the Silkies had grown enough to be moved from the barn brooder into the garden. We positioned their coop against the house, on a patch of lawn just inside the garden gate, where we can handily close it up at night, open it in the morning, and tend to the feeding, watering, and egg collecting.
                      Initially the Silkies were quite conservative, never traveling farther from their little coop than to a forsythia bush some 30 feet across the grass. Thanks to their pecking, scratching, and dust bathing I no longer have to bother weeding under and around the forsythia.

To be continued.