trystinn | At long last, the Bantie Barn & Pen (Heavy Pic Post)

Here's our Bantie Barn, as I'm currently referring to it, in place and almost ready for habitation:

"Hard to tell from the pictures, but this barn is huge! It's 6 feet tall, 6 feet deep and 4 feet wide! I can actually sit inside, quite comfy and content. Its wired with a heat lamp and exhaust fan, with a temperature sensor, etc. Quite posh. Here's looking in (I had to remove one of the roost poles to sit inside it) once the double doors are open:

The attached pen, also huge, 8x10, roughly 6 feet tall:

The Bantie Frizzle chickens, completely unsuspecting that they are moving into their fancy new digs tomorrow!

Slumming it in the old shed coop, left to right, Smokey (Blue Andalusian), Scarlett (professional hen, Rhode Island Red) and Ruby (RIR):

Mutilda, our Silver Gray Dorking, sitting above on one of the interior door lintels and disapproving of this unfocused photo:

Cochin tushies, left to right, Sandy & Big Blue Roo. Its a bit hard to tell in this pic, but he's starting to get in the fancy long rooster feathers on his butt:

Polly, our Silver Speckled Hamburg, naughtily sitting on top of one of the three food bins (nipped her tail off in the pic, its quite lovely I assure you):

I've a bit of work to do on the little barn tomorrow. It needs a good hosing off, a bit of touch up paint here and there, a door replacement (we lost it in the move) and shutter re-attaching (knocked off several in the move), etc. We also broke off one door (the one into the pen, naturally), so that needs to be replaced, as well. I spent about an hour this afternoon tucking fill dirt under the pen where the yard slopes a bit, then threw hay everywhere. I'll check it again before I pop the Banties in, but I think we're pretty good to go.

Anyone in the mood, we'll be painting the old shed coop to match on Wednesday!"