So we mostly filled up our biodegradable trash container already vines from the backyard, but I’m thinking we could fill it up even more with the remaining waste from the bird areas. There are two cage areas left, one of which will be completely removed and the other which we’re thinking we’re going to clean up and eventually may use again to raise a few chickens. Notice I say “a few” – by no means does that mean the 50+ birds they must have been raising here before along with ducks, rabbits, pigs and who knows what else. We’re thinking a few chickens just for our own egg needs and possibly to sell the overage down the street at the market or via our front gate. The only other things we’ll be selling here will be from what’s grown in our backyard that we can’t eat ourselves.
I’m definitely not a fan of playing in bird feces, especially by myself, but this really does need to be done and since it’s beautiful but fairly cool out still and we have the container, I figured I might as well go for it. Plus, I have yet to get involved much with the bird pooh cleanup and hubby did nearly the entire chicken coop by himself which was far worse than these so it only seems fair that I at least get started here.
Here is the coop that we will probably be keeping. We think he had doves in here which must have been part of the troop he used for weddings and other special events. We’ll remove most of the old cages in here because they’re just really nasty but that will wait until we have a regular trash container which will likely be right after they pick up this bio container.
And here is the other coop which I will probably focus on first because it somehow seems like less work. I may go to the trouble of at least taking down part of the bird stuff from the walls but it’s really almost pointless unless you have some place to trash everything right then. We once thought about building a smoker in this corner since we should easily be able to draft it out the glass block window hiding in the corner here…but we’ll just have to see. It’s right outside the wine cellar so we might try to integrate it into that space as well…thankfully we have plenty of time to work that out lol.
