Today I continue my quest in creating and posting one block a day of the fabulous That Town And Country Quilt by the lovely Susan-Claire Mayfield. This is day three hundred of that project.

This quilt block shows a half-circle shaped building against a blue background. The half-circle is above the ground, with the lower half being below the ground if it were there. The front of the long structure has sliding tan doors in the middle. Next to the doors are two square sets of vents drawn in pen. — Click To Enlarge

At Sisu Farms, we have four to eight-hundred laying hens at any given time.

These “hoop houses,” large Quonset-shaped greenhouses, are where the laying hens spend the winters.

The reason that number of hens varies is that a new crop of hens begins in the fall. They come in as day-old chicks and start out in the brooders. When they graduate from the brooders, they spend the next several months in one hoop house growing while the established hens are in the other.

There is an additional structure for ducks and geese.

They are free-range in these large structures with fresh bedding and fresh hay all winter.

During the summer months, when the hens are out in the pastures, the Farmhands plant herbs and vegetables in the hoop houses.