Spring cleaning has officially begun out here. We’ve done a lot of work reorganizing our hay shed. One of the biggest challenges so far was moving the chicken coop.
Last Summer, I built our Chicken Coop of the Ages, and created a “run” for the chickens to run around in:
![Chicken Coop](https://ashanna.websitesinaflash.com/images/coop-done1.jpg)
![Chicken Run](https://ashanna.websitesinaflash.com/images/animals/chicken-run1.jpg)
This has been in the front of our Hay Shed for the last year, and the chickens are making a mess. It’s also taking up extra space where we would like to put hay, so we have decided to move it to the back of the hay shed:
![Chicken Run](https://ashanna.websitesinaflash.com/images/animals/chicken-run2.jpg)
First we had to clean it up:
![Chicken Run Before](https://ashanna.websitesinaflash.com/images/animals/chicken-run3.jpg)
Then we built a roof out of wooden planks and a lot of chicken wire. We had to sew lengths of chicken wire together to make a “roof.” We used rocks to hold down the chicken wire where it met the ground (on the left):
![Chicken Run After](https://ashanna.websitesinaflash.com/images/animals/chicken-run4.jpg)
Then I cut a hole in the wall at the back of the hay shed, and we moved our (extremely heavy) Chicken Coop of the Ages to the back of the hay shed.