Poor Alinta is crammed into the back of the box, why they moved in there I can not understand. I had to hold the water over Rosie's head so Alinta could drink :p it's in the low 80s outside.
After 4? years the run is mostly fenced at last. It has had chicken wire around the bottom three ft from the start, except for the door which had nothing, rendering the rest pointless.
they got a porch today
The new dirt i mentioned, there will be another shelf at the bottom of the ramp...
We joined the speckled suspects club 😁
I was hoping to get a colored egg layer, but these were the only day olds available. I could have checked other places, but didn't want to run around.
It appears Rosie isn't find of babies at least not these two, Alinta had them both at the 1 hour check...
You can place buckets of water around your perimeter and put them in there. Seems a little counterintuitive to add water around, but my father has had great luck with this method.
Big hugs to those with recent losses. :hugs
In other news...
Looks like i have a hanging head sleeper temp home, going to see if Rosie an Alinta really want to be moms tonight.
Did a major clean out of the run yesterday. Removed almost 2 18gl totes full of dirt, poop, broken down straw etc. The cats have been using it as a litter box. 🙄 Since I never finished fencing it, this is not surprising. Hoping to remedy that today. I scraped and leveled then laid bricks around...
I stopped by Wilco (farm store) last night after work and learned something silly, that explains at least some of the mistaken identities. They have to put the lable on the chick bins for what ever chick was ordered even if what was sent was wrong! They had some gold laced wynadotts that were...