We had agreed to take 4 hens from my client, but thought it would be 6-8 weeks after he closed on his home as we explained we needed some time to build a coop. Unfortunately, he called two weeks later saying he and his wife were drowning in eggs and if we didn't come take 4 of them he was going to eat them. Agast, I promised to come pick them up that weekend so the balsa wood mini-coop purchase was an emergency stop-gap measure, which almost cost as much as the coop we ended up building ourselves (so much for the free eggs, right?).
Are you vegetarian?