I hope to post pics tomorrow after moving everyone around. Abigail's fair turkeys have been in our starter tub since she received them on March 15th. They are getting pretty big & tall now and really need to move to larger quarters, so today Dan finished putting the turkey coop back together. Tomorrow, the four of them move in.
I will clean out the starter tub and then move Rockie and her two chicks into that for awhile. Chester & Spot are less than a week old, but when they are about 2 weeks old, I'll probably take Rockie back to the coop for two reasons. Number 1) I hope that she will hatch another clutch of eggs & 2) I hope to have more chicks to put in with them. Will see about ordering them tomorrow!
Dan is going to expand my chicken coop and I may keep as many as 3 dozen laying hens. I am very excited about progressing with the eggs business so I need to get moving on it! Dan will help me fence in a very much larger space outside the barn for the hens to roam....I call it "Controlled Free-Ranging". The last time I let my hens truly roamed anywhere they wanted, I loved it. So did the neighbor's dog, who killed one before I knew he was the culprit, and then outed himself by walking away with one of my chickens in his mouth...right in front of me. So much for truly free-ranging my birds. I think they will really like their big new pen, though.
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