So I did that for a while. Finally it cleared up enough to feed the animals. So next on the list was fence repair, especially since Thelma and Louise were loose again. Ugh, those 2 are miserable goats. I put an extra fence post in where they had been escaping and wired the fence on really tight... That had better work or BBQ might be in order! Just kidding, I never eat anything I have named. But it is aggravating to find them loose almost every time I go back there. While I was there, I piled up more dead branches. It is very wild and tangled back there. You never know what you will find. So anyway, after I made supper, I worked on more fence repair , and attached wire to another side of the new grow out pen. But that side still needs a door and I am out of 2x4's. So I put chicken wire on half of the roof, and started hammering it on with poultry staples. Finally it was just too dark. I had to put up the few chickens I let out today. DH said he heard the hawk again. I only let out the light Sussex and the giant cochin pullets since I was right there with them and had a hammer in my hand. But the teenagers near the garage go out every day. They have a yard enclosed by a fence , but no roof. I put them back in the brooder they have outgrown so they are safe at night. I did get the speckled Sussex out of the chicken tractor today. They are in the completed grow out pen. They were having a great time, flapping and digging and throwing themselves on the ground! I just love to watch chickens!
