Ladies & gentlemen, please stand for her Majesty, Queen Anaconda of Cluckingham Palace. Her eyes are piercing and her striking feathers can be admired from afar.
Early development
The construction of Cluckingham Palace began in the late summer of 2016. Trusty architects, Tommy, and cousin, Eric, toiled in the scorching hot summer sun. Suffolk's Royalty could not reside in any coop, it had to be grand and stylish for their many visitors.
My mother's chicken coop is an old shed that you can walk around in to gather the eggs and shovel the bedding in or out. I do have a small dollhouse coop but the task of bending over to clean that beauty out is a real chore on anyone's back.
We decided on shed plans to build our chicken coop. Tommy and I decided that an 8x10 shed would allow us to grow our flock. I hear that you can't just have one chicken, it becomes addiction and you must have many. Thus, Cluckingham Palace was born.
No chicken coop is complete without a chicken run. Now, I am about to FAN GIRL out. I stumbled upon Fresh Eggs Daily about a year ago. Whenever I need guidance or how I should build the run, I refer to her two books or the Fresh Eggs Daily blog. We learned how to predator proof our run from Lisa Steele at Fresh Eggs Daily.
The Royal Family is looking to a hire a decorator for the interior of their new palace. You know, chicken art, family silhouettes, and egg pieces. When spring comes, the gardener will arrive to landscape their formal gardens.
The next Cluckingham projects include decorating the interior, installing window trim & guard, installing solar panels, landscaping the run and the highly anticipated electric coop door (a recent invention by Tommy).
Cluckingham Palace is Her Royal Highness, Brown Tip, approved.
Hats off to Tommy for a successful build.
Brown Tip with Hugh the Huguenot
Here comes Her Royal Highness, Brown Tip.