The Chicken House

Our chickens live in a discarded ambulance. It’s the body of the ambulance mounted on a flatbed trailer, so we can move it. We move the chicken house (with the chickens inside) into the vegetable garden in the late fall when the garden is finished for the year. The chickens spend the winter there, scratching up insects, eating the last vegetables, and fertilizing the garden for next year. In the spring we pull them to a shady spot behind our house. They like to hang out under the raspberry bushes when it’s hot.

Fresh Eggs

It’s the best chicken house we have ever had. It has electricity. It’s quite warm in the winter. The chickens roost and lay their eggs in the little cubbyholes where the medics used to keep their medicine.

Inside the Chicken House

We don’t put a fence around our chickens. They can roam wherever they like in the daytime. At night we shut them up inside the house. That doesn’t protect them from all predators, but it does help. The dogs keep predators away too. It’s a pretty nice life for a chicken.