Our New Chicken Coop by Julia

I wanted a new chicken coop after what happen with the other one.  So we started to build one.  My dad asked a friend named Diaj to help too.   First we locked the chickens in their stall in the barn.  Then, we took the old chicken coop down.  After that we bought wood, screws, and more.  Next, we started to build.  We dug underground and then put the wood in the ground so animals couldn’t get in.  We made the chicken coop wider than the other one so the chickens could roam better.  We put the wood up first and then we started putting the fencing around the wood.  When we put up the fence, we screwed it in so animals couldn’t get in.  We built it two stories high so now I can fit into it!  And we made a door so we can step in instead of crawl in.  This makes it easier to feed them all of our scraps like watermelon and bread.  Finally, the big finale was here!  We let the chickens out in their new coop and they were confused.  I feel like they were thinking,  “This isn’t our regular outside pen.”  And I knew all my hard work really paid off.  I was so happy to see the chickens outside again.                                                                                                                                                             

And now the chickens love going outside especially Grandma, our five year old chicken.  Chickens usually die at 3 or 4 years old.  Grandma has a story to her past. We bought her at Tractor Supply when she was a chick.  Then the next year, we hatched her eggs in an incubator.  We named one of her chicks Bubblegum.  After that, Bubblegum had chicks and ran away with them but Sarah found one in Scooby’s stall.  We named it Sticky Caramel.  Sticky Caramel got eaten by a raccoon but before she did she had two chicks named Melty Creamsicle and a boy named Roasted Marshmallow.  Now Grandma watches over her great grandchildren in her their new chicken coop!