After attending a training session this morning, I came home to work on the chicken run some more. My chicken population is still under attack by some "fowl" serial killer. We're thinking now it's probably a raccoon. On Monday after school I spent some time tightening up the hen house and putting the electronet back up around it. The net won't keep the chickens in because they can almost all fly over it, but I am hoping it will keep the killer out. Right now it isn't even electrified, but I do plan adding a charger as soon as I can.
Today I made the chickens a run so they don't have to be cooped up all the time. ( I had to drive six fence posts--pumpin' iron, farm-girl style!) This is the first of probably three runs which I will attach around the coop. That way I will be able to rotate them from run to run by opening and closing the pop doors. It's a far cry from truly being free-range like they were, but on the other hand, they very possibly get to see more of the outdoors than those labeled "free range" in the grocery store. (The label "free range" means only that the chickens have to have some access to an outside yard, not that they ever actually figure out how to get out there. "Cage Free" just means that they are not kept in battery style cages, but they are still raised inside. Just FYI.)
I took pictures while I was out there:
"Whatcha Doin'?"
Farm Girl Weight Machine
Checkin' Out the new Digs
A Good Afternoon's Work
Local Old Timers say that when a snow lies around like this one has, it's waiting on another one.
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