My Dad's old chook shed.

This was my Dad's old chook shed close to their retirement home that they build after leaving the Guest House that they had build in 1953, and run until the 1980's.
When they had the Guest House, the chook house was a lot bigger, and the hens were always housed inside. There were 3 big 'rooms' for them to live in and big boxes for them to lay their eggs in. There was a 'room' for the young hens, the older hens and one 'room' spare. The spare 'room' would be cleaned out THOROUGHLY!! Then one lot would get moved into it, and the next time it was the other lots turn to move into the clean 'room'. These chooks supplied all the eggs for the Guest House, plus a few ended up for dinner, in soups, as well.
All the manure and straw from the floor, was shoveled up and used in the bottom of the potato trenches and pumpkin patches when these were planted. Or else it was spread around the huge vegetable garden that he also maintained all year round. (Even if it was only Silverbeet & carrots - I got to hate them! as this is what we would get to eat all winter long.)
He always kept a record of how many eggs were laid and that were collected in the morning and at night. He would know which ones were laying, and those that weren't. Those that didn't lay - didn't live any longer. Then the rest would all start to lay again.
After fish had been caught and filletted out, the bones etc were put into a big old baking dish, then into the slow oven on the Aga stove, along with all of the vegetable peelings. By morning, these were all cooked, and then he would mix them with mash to feed to his beloved hens. In the evenings the hens got wheat. Plus when weeding the gardens he would bring all the dandelions plants, or vegetables that had gone to seed, to give to them too. He always said that they needed greens to stay healthy, and have nice bright yellow yolks to the eggs.
He kept hens right up until the time that he died, just 7 weeks short of his 87th birthday.
Now used to store a few bales of hay, for a small number of sheep.