We got the new chicken & duck yard almost finished this afternoon. The only think left to do is put a gate in the opening so that we can close the birds in during the day. If they *really* want to, they'll be able to fly over the fence, but chickens, at least in our experience, don't fly unless they feel that have to. We're not in a hurry to get that gate on though, because we *need* to butcher at least 7 roosters. Currently we've got at *least* 11 roosters and about 30 hens. The rooster to hen ratio is too high and we feel if that we locked them all inside a 200 square foot fence together that the roosters would more than likely fight *all* the time. They scuffle quite a bit now, but they've got 10 acres of space to get away from each other. Therefore we'll be butchering several roosters real soon. We got the chicken tractor moved from over by the pumphouse into the new yard by tyeing a rope to the handle on the front of it, the other end to the back of the riding mower, and pulling it into the "new" yard. Hopefully the chickens that were going to bed in it every night will be able to find it. You know, chickens are the brightest birds on the block. *smile* I just went and took a couple of pictures - one of the chicken tractor and one of the newly fence yard, but neither of them came out well because it's too dark out there. Went spent all afternoon working. My DD and I put one side of the fence up. Later, after Rain got up, woke-up and ate, she came out and helped. When we needed to attach the fence to the back of the chicken coop there was a small tree growing where we needed to hammer u-nails in. Rain went and got the branch loppers out of the shed and proceeded to cute the sapling down. She like the tool so much that she went on a tree-branch trimming spree. *smile* When my DD and I couldn't do anymore of the fence by ourselves, I asked Rain to come and help us. She did and we got the other half of the fence up. Once we had it attached to the poles we had, we got some more poles to put in the spots where there was too much space between pole and put t-poles in (about 5 of them). After that it was just about time to feed the chickens and ducks, so we came in and took a break and rested, then went back out. We fed the birds, moved their water bowls into the newly created yard and filled them. Then DD moved the swimming pool that the ducks swim in to the yard and filled it. After that we picked up Rain tree debris, put the tools away and came in. That was *our* afternoon, how was yours? :-)
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