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- New blog series – Chicky on a Budget.
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More Water Please….
As my chickies are getting bigger, they go through more feed and more water daily. They’re now going through almost twice the original amount. They drain their water and food bins and then promptly tip them over. HA!
The sizes I have now are 1 quart… I should have gotten the 3 quart ones. I ran over to the store today to get bigger feeders. It was inevitable, as will be really big huge feeders when we move them outdoors.
The chicken coop is up on all 4′s, 3 walls are erected. We’re making a modification to the current plan to allow the side of it to completely hinge open. It will make cleaning it a lot easier. Apply face mask, Insert rake, PULL….. Voila!
We got the wood for the roof trusses last night, just gotta cut ‘em and mount ‘em. Then a little plywood, some ondura roofing left over from when Ray built his observatory, and then we’re on to the fencing.
Fencing: We’ve decided to go with wood posts and chicken wire. This will let us build a nice big enclosure that is sturdy and build a gate into it. It will also make enclosing the top of it a heck of a lot easier, which is a pinal county requirement anyway.
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Adventuring… not so successful….
So I decided to let the chickens venture a bit outside today. Granted, today might not have been the best day. It’s cold outside, and a little drizzly (though it wasn’t raining at all when I took them outside.)
I figured today would be a good day to take them out to our round-pen and let them run around in the sand. I was in the middle of cleaning out their bunker anyway so I figured since I had them in the portable cage, I would just take them outside to run around….
Well, there was no running around… it was more like me getting a bird out of the cage, then reach for another one, while bird number 1 ran back into the cage….
They were scared, and cold, and just wanted to stay together… But, I did get them outside for the first time since they came home!
Just a couple pics…
No, we'll just stay in here... kthx!
Okay, fine, we're out.... now what?
Huddling
Geeter
Where'd everyone go?
If it’s nice enough…
If it’s nice enough out today, I will be taking the chickies outside to play in the sand round-pen we use for the horses today…. this should be interesting! pics and vid to come if I get them out there!
Busy couple of weeks here
Classes just started back up, work keeps me busy, and trying to help get a couple people’s blogs up and going over the next week so posts will be down a bit. Ray started working on the fencing for the chicken coop with getting the poles ready and stuff…
Chickies are doing fantastic, and they’re such little pigs! They’re going through food faster, they’ve almost tripled in size since I got them. I’m moving their light source up more and more to prep them for outside living.
So that’s it for now, just a small update.
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