The Girls

The girls LOVE worms!

chickens

It's 8:30. Do you know where you husband is?  Mine is out working on the coop for his 4 mistress'. Or is it 7?  At least he is having fun.

Chickens survival

I watched a fox tonight prowl around our wood pile.  It trotted off with a mouse in it's mouth.  Better build a fox proof yard.  Norbert was going crazy watching all this happen, from the safety of inside.  Can't help but remember old Warner Brothers cartoons with the dog and the flock of sheep and ole Wyle e. Coyote.

chickens heat

We have chickens on the brain.  Yesterday morning Tom woke up crowing that the heat lamp had burned out over the girls.  So we ran around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to find a new bulb to keep the girls warm.  Turns out Tom was just saying that the sky was falling.  The bulb hadn't burned out at all, he just couldn't see it because the half built coop was in the way.  I won't let this get stuck in my craw, he is not a bird brain he just broods over his chicks.  He was counting his chickens before they hatched in anticipation of fresh eggs.  I'm just hard boiled when it comes to these chicks.  Tom rules the roost when it come to his girls.

Chicken survival

Well two days and no chicken deaths to report.  So far so good! They are growing so fast.  I think we finally have the set up right.  Screen over the top so Norbert can't get to nosey, heat lamp suspended by tri-pod.  A book I got from the library has been most helpful.  It is called Your Chickens: A Kids's Guide to Raising and Showing.  The information started from the very basics.  We even averted disaster by knowing what pasting up was and how to fix it!