this is my chicken coop and these are my
chickens these sassy little ladies are
silky bantams and they love to roam free
in our garden every single day up until
now they've been sleeping in this
somersby chicken coop which
unfortunately has seen better days it's
recommended that you have one square
meter of coop space per chicken and
seeing as i recently brought home two
new little ladies it was definitely time
for an upgrade i found an enormous 8
square meter chicken coop on amazon for
the humble price of 1
700
plus 130 shipping now that is a huge
amount of money and i wouldn't have been
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you can fit so many chickens in these
bad boys
i'm glad to see that the wire is
attached we don't have to do that oh god
oh it's so cute
oh my god okay i
veto this is a chicken pit this is now
loki's house a mansion on the property
oh big metal tray that's their makeup
vanity oh a second makeup vanity very
good very nice we have to find the
instructions they're in here
did it say which box has the
instructions
that'll be helpful just on the side of
one of the boxes like a picture of the
instructions they're like so i'm like in
this box
never mind all right alex let's do a
quick inventory check we should have 28
pieces of 3.5 by 60 millimeter screws we
should have 67 pieces of 50 millimeter
by 3.5 millimeter screws we should have
70 pieces of 3.5 by 40 millimeter screws
you getting this
look how many pieces there are guys
eight how many roof panels alone oh no
sorry there's only two roof pedals i saw
the 21 it's it's part 21 i thought it
was like 21 rough panels never mind it's
the size of a house i am a fool
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it slipped out
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i took my nose
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to the gallows
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do
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hazel's are still behind there is she
hazel
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that is a lot like it's not hazel
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do
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catch it hey alex yes we're taking note
of the parts as we unpack them because
for our first set of instructions we're
going to need to find parts 13 15 11 and
14. do you know where they are oh see
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you know so far i would say it's pretty
easy to assemble
i was a little bit intimidated by the
amount of pieces but this is actually
very straightforward the instructions
don't even need
words or english or anything it's just
it's just like screw here and here and
here next piece put a screw here and
here and here it's actually very very
simple
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all right so all the uh
you're right
you shocked me
not expecting them
not ready for it
so all the side panels are assembled now
and we're going to take them out to the
spot where we're building the coop but
we're only doing a test build so that
sam can get the measurements of the base
because we're actually going to build it
on a nice solid foundation we're going
to build the city on rock and roll yeah
it's treated upon timber but don't tell
anyone that
are you guys stuck
you can just go around if you want
come on girls little girls come on
come on
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all right now before we go any further
with the assembly we've got to figure
out exactly where in the yard that this
is going to go i want to see it in a
couple of different positions because i
can't quite make up my mind until i
actually see it in situ so i'm thinking
option a we're going to put it facing
basically parallel to you guys going
straight this way and then the chooks
can have all of that as their run
option b will be it'll be smack bang in
the center and if you have a little
fence on either side and option c is
having it on an angle because the nicest
part about the pen has a little windows
that's by far the the cutest feature but
also the front of it is going to have
some little uh
boxes like flower boxes on it so i want
to be able to see the front and the
windows so the third option is going to
be having it on an angle so you can see
the windows and the face of it
but i need to put it in all three
positions before i make up my mind so
let's have a look at option a all right
well uh now that we've tried option a
i've realized that option a boycotts
option b
because the thing is so wide
that
if you set it off to one side or the
other it's basically still in the middle
of the yard so uh that goes straight to
option c and uh can i just say i did not
think that it was going to be this wide
uh when i was buying it i did
get the measurements from the website
and we stepped it out on the ground and
i was like oh yeah yeah it's a decent
size but something about the
measurements on the ground not
translating in my brain like now that
it's actually standing i'm like good
lord it's
bigger than my garage all right well
after a lot of deliberation and a lot of
moving the coop around we finally
settled on the spot sam's built this
little base here which uh he's made
perfectly level now if you were in an
area where you might have a threat to
your chickens like raccoons or
what other american terrifying creatures
are there coyotes
yeah or hamsters
scary american animals there if you have
those maybe you might want to be very
dangerous those hamsters
i am so sorry
all day every day
can't stop myself
i can't even
talk
all right well there's a not much point
in talking right now when we've got
so uh i'm just going to put on some
low-fi music and we're going to finish
off the assembly of the coop
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okay
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ah
wait
oh
oh no wait
that's so
ah
oh
you just gotta push that down to the
edge
i was like it's not
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excuse me did you not even notice i was
absorbed in my work
and no clue
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thank you for baking no problem did you
use our eggs
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huh
[Laughter]
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oh look this one's already laid an egg
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good girls
good girls you are
gee they must like it
you're supposed to lay them up here
though
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ah
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yeah you can do it
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all
i do not have the most athletic chickens
in the world
so uh
they are definitely gonna have to learn
how to jump from this across to their
silky phantoms uh notoriously
kind of dopey because they they can't
really see very well because their eyes
are kind of covered by the giant bald
fluff on their head
so they're not very uh athletic they
don't have the best agility so
i i was a little bit worried that they
wouldn't be able to scale the ramps
because they're so steep uh and i'm also
worried that they're gonna struggle
getting from there to there but i am
gonna film them as they
get used to this pen and as they learn
how to use it um
i'm gonna give them a little bit of
encouraging chickens definitely learn by
watching each other and i find if you
show them how to do something
if you show every single one of them how
to do it eventually one of them will
pick it up and then all of them
will learn off the one that figures out
how to do it
there you go she's made the step
this is what i do
just show them how it's done
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do you like it girls and now they're
like how the
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maybe i should show them how to get down
as well
oh
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there you go
success
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here
and here and here
and you you seem quite comfortable you
know what i'm gonna i'm actually i'm
gonna leave this egg
i'm gonna leave it up here to just kind
of like encourage them to lay there
there's another egg
look how small they are by the way two
bantam eggs or even three bantam eggs
equals one regular egg all right i'm
gonna put this one here
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all right guys well that's it that's
everything thank you so much for joining
us while we assembled the new coop if
you enjoyed this this was part one there
will be a part two we're going to be
doing an entire chicken garden and i've
got a whole bunch of gardening supplies
from wish
and
we started assembling some of them and
it's been absolute chaos there's some
very good things and there's some
you'll just have to wait and see so
don't forget to subscribe if you haven't
already and with that thank you guys so
much for watching and i'll see you in
part two
all right so
the chickens spent their first night in
the coop
so we're gonna go see how they did we've
just put up a little temporary fence
here hello girls oh hang on so we've got
one two three four there's six on the
ground does that mean two have figured
out oh
no
look
damn look
kylo
kylo and stormy
they worked it out
great success oh i'm so happy
yay
good job girls
how smart
the only two that seem to work the ramp
out
that's very impressive
you