Beautiful day so decided to rake out the hay from the main chook run and the adjoining annex area and replenish with cleaner hay that comes of the floors of the two storage sheds down at the horse agistment. We purchase 10 or 12 bails every few months and its surprising how much ends up on the floor which usually gets swept out and dumped. Now that we are retirees I find myself looking for ways to be a bit more thrifty so I bag the hay (empty horse feed bags) and bring it home for the chook run. The finer stuff contains a lot of grass seed, just throw it around where the grass is struggling to grow in the backyard and the chooks will come along and scratch it in and before long – green grass!

Raking out the two areas fills the green bin.

MAIN CHOOK RUN

The chook shed

The bedroom area

ANNEX AREA

Above: The annex entry

Above: Wooden cloths drying rack to roost and catch the morning sun

Above: The annex roof is covered with a tarp on one side adjacent to the main run so the area is more usable in the winter months.