This morning's excitement was the neighbor kids set off an M-80 fire work this morning just after I was up doing chicken chores. Ack! Twice what a way to begin the day. That got my heart going!
Other day I had to lift one of the hens out of the coop loft so I used some pieces of tree limbs we had here for the grand kids to make a tee pee with in for them to use in place of a ladder for the loft until we get one done for that top section.
Opening the coop door out to the chicken run went smoother than I was thinking it would this morning so that was great! We will be getting material for slats on the chicken door that doubles as a ramp for them and put that on soon. I have not used the hook on the people door yet since we put that in.
I've been watching westerns and civil war movies with hubby and dear grand son [dgs] we like to see the chickens in farm scenes and try to identify the breeds, ones that I enjoyed a lot were in the Hatfields and Macoys mini series when they did chicken chores and seeing the chickens run across their yard the many colors were fun to watch!
I forgot to mention the time I did some dumpster diving for pumpkins for the chickens the guy up the street said I could have theirs when they were done with them for Halloween I got them last year and this year his wife did not get the message and they were at his work so we went after those with permission I mostly wanted them for the new kinds of squash I'd not grown here. So I'll be processing the rest of those this month.
I made out a list of chicken goals in my off line journal one of those was to chick proof the back yard, and get a brooder set up we have not done the brooder with chicks yet was sort of hoping to bypass that with the setting hen.
Got three eggs today all beige ones no green ones only got one all week. Glad the others have been producing with this cold snap. It's supposed to warm up and by mid week be nearly fifty that will be nice but rain is in the forecast.
Today I set the small feeder on a small bale of hay and they came in a few at a time hopped up on there and ate got some water and left the run area it worked great for keeping things peaceful away from the heard mentality. I'd like to have 13 birds 12 hens and one roo but that is just pushing it a bit much for the size of yard we have. May have to cut back a bit.
I'm looking forward to the help of the birds to get the bugs and apples and other wind fall fruit that starts in June. Can't wait to see how they take care of the ants!!!
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