Family members of all ages took part in sheep shearing each year. After the older ones sheared the wool from the sheep, the children's job was to fill long cloth bags with handfuls of the thick fibers. The bags were 8 to 10 feet long, and the smallest children would crawl inside them to pack the wool tightly, while older children promised to brush the ticks off their younger brothers and sisters if they finished the uncomfortable job. The sheep entered through a small low door on the south side of the shed for feeding and shelter, and each mother ewe rested in a safe pen with her new lambs. Outside, a narrow wooden pen guided the sheep into single file so the farmer could regularly spray their coats to prevent lice from infesting their wool, since clean thick wool brought a higher price at market. Inside the chicken coop, a large feeder made of wooden boards and metal mesh hung on the side wall, and a metal trough held water for the birds. Eventually the family added electricity for interior lights. In later years, as the activities of the farm changed, the chicken coop was used as a lambing shed for raising high quality flocks of sheep. The attached buggy shed stored the family's surrey, a 2-3 seat wagon used to transport the family by horse, and its half doors allowed the wagon's trees or poles to protrude. Fancy molding at the gable end of the shed signified its importance. In later years the shed was used to store hay.