A few years ago when my now husband, moved onto my family's farm, we were given a old Pig shed to use for our newly acquired chickens (and other things..) to roost in. And you can see in this picture (taken of Ice storm damage) that the shed is made up of several compartments that are probably 5 by 6 feet each. They each have their own door with locks to keep predators out.
Anyway. We had/have several sheds and try to keep a 'nickname' going for them all so we can easily know which one we're talking about and Jon called it, "the Chicken Stable". He grew up on a farm in another state, that only had cows. He said they'd had goats and ducks at one time, and his Grandpa had chickens but he'd never raised chickens before himself. So the name stuck as a running joke. Now we use it as a goat shed, with a dinky 'milk room', where we trim hooves and have shorn sheep before. the chickens moved into that 'stall' and keep it too messy to actually milk the goats in. Two other 'stalls' house our two Pot Bellied Hogs for the winter (you can't see in this pic, because the electricity is out, but there are heat lamps for the pigs). And the other 'stall' is just for goats to sleep in, along with another three sided shed in another part of this winter lot. The rest of the time, the animals roam around 'free range'. But it's just been too cold, and we've had fall kids (baby goats) so they have to be up by the house. But we still call it The Chicken Stable.
So yeah, that's how this blog got it's name.. cause it's all about the odd and quirky goings on, on the farm. I'll post from time to time about silly little incidents and not so humorous happenings.
