Chicken Coop from 20 Years Ago & Old Photos of Me!

 I was looking through some old photos the other day. Before I left mum and dads I did a lot of jobs around the place and built quite a few things. One was this chicken coop as I was always keeping chickens. It wasn't the first one I built, as that was for my GSCE woodwork project when I was 15 (well it was a duck house but near enough). 

I'd been hatching chickens out in an incubator mum and I bought, we got some different eggs and moved away from our hybrid layers for a little while. This coop would for the basic shape of my next few ones before I moved away from building them with wood cladding. 

I built it in sections in the workshop and moved it out to the pen. 

I can remember feeding these birds every morning before being picked up for work (I was a very lucky apprentice). I then moved the cockerels out to another pen I made from an old lamb creep to fatten up. 

I made a wooden feeder for them to save too much cost, fed mostly on corn. They were in the very young orchard mum and I had just planted. 

I must have been about 21 or 22 in this photo, prepping the cockerels to be cooked. I wanted to make sure mum taught me before I left home.