Chickens

Remember how cute they were here. Hard to believe that was 6 short weeks ago.


Within a few weeks they looked like this. See the little feathers on this chick's wingtips. Those pop out only a few days after the chicks arrive.


Several weekends ago, on a (hot!) Sunday afternoon, Daniel, Aaron and I transferred the chickens from the upstairs of barn, where you saw their nice warm set-up, outside to the pasture where the chickens could live on pasture.


Aaron caught the chicks and put them in crates, Daniel hoisted the full crates onto the 4-wheeler and hauled them out into the field and put them on the ground inside the fence then I unloaded each crate while he went back to repeat this process. Thirteen more times. Three hundred chickens.


After they were all moved and shooed into their tent--it really was a hot afternoon--we organized their feeders and waterer. Aaron had already moved the tent, which looks like a carport on skis, mowed around the tent so he could set up the fence which will keep predators out; the grass must be short in order to get the fence low enough so nothing can get under it and also so that the taller grass doesn't cause the electric fence to short.


Watch for photos of the chicks in their new home.