Chickens

Saturday we set a post and gate in the barnyard between the barn and chicken yard. It's one of our final steps to having the place pig and goat ready. Across the lot we set another post and stretched some barbwire along the top of the fence. All we lack now is setting one more post, hanging a gate, and running polywire across the top and bottome of the fence. Then we're all set! Hopefully! Brent finished repairing the gate to the chicken yard, and Clint and I made a roost, so now all that's left is adding a few nesting boxes, and we'll be done with that project as well. I love it when things start to come together. If only we could get some of that trash to move itself out of the yard...



We got a good deal on some chickens that we just couldn't pass up. A friend, Joann Hoskins, offered us some of her chickens to a good home, so we obliged and went and picked them up! We ended up with 10 hens and a rooster named Bubba. The dogs didn't immediately kill the chickens, and the chickens didn't immediately kill the dogs, and after having spent the night together no one was missing any feathers or fur, so it's looking very hopeful.

The dogs still felt they had to chase down a few hens. All good clean fun.

Good news! We now have internet at the farm so posts should become more regular.