All Fenced in.

aha- this picture makes me want to hang out with the chickens all the time.

Of course we choose the hottest day of the year to go ahead and build a fence. We have been talking about it all along but have been lazy getting to it's construction. We put the chicken coop on the side of our house. It created three walls to hold them, two being existing fences and the other is out house. We have been meaning to pen them in so that we don't have to worry about keeping an eye on them in the backyard where wondering cats often end up. Neither Joe or I had built a fence before. We bought those green metal poles and some hardware cloth. It took us a while to get the polls in the ground.. then to get the cloth attached.. then to figure out an easy solution to the door. Well we jumped all those hurdles and things looked great! Joe herded the chickens in while I started cooking up some dinner. He came in and told me to take a look.... and all the chickens were outside the fence! So it was back to the drawing board and we realized there was a big enough gap on the house side (it was where we had to move the poll a few inches further from the house than we wanted because of some buried cement) and there was a gap on the ground where there was a natural dip. With a piece of wood and some chicken wire we took care of it. The chicks should be happy being let out of their coop everyday not just a few days a week.
Besty is saying "Help Henrietta! I am trapped!" Or they are planning her escape from both sides.

There is the fence in its almost finished glory. The piece of wood swing around and meets the green pole by the house. It attaches there with some bungees.