I'm thinking of moving some of my brooder chicks out to the growout pen this afternoon. It's supposed to be warmer in the daytime, but still pretty cold at night. I have weaned them from any heat other than what is in the house in general. I'm only moving the bigger ones out there that look to be all feathered completely. Do you all think they'll be OK out there? There is a group of just a bit bigger chicks in there that they can huddle with. They all tend to huddle together on the floor & the two little BR chicks I got from you HEChicken get in to the middle of the huddle. I know the ones you had grew up outside, so they're used to it, but these all have been in the house in a brooder since they came here. I'm going to try to put the Cream Legbar cockerel in with the other young ones in the breeder coop & at least he can go in at night. He's getting pretty good sized now too.
We finally got all of the stuff loaded up from in the garage that goes to Goodwill, I cornered my DH about it today & got him to help me get it all in the truck. We've got a whole truck load to take up there in a bit, wow that will be a relief to get that out of there. A lot of it was stuff that belonged to my son & he took what he wanted & left me the rest to get rid of. I still have a bit of cleaning up to do in the back of the workshop part yet, but I have gotten a lot cleaned out of there so far. It's amazing what you collect over the years & it just builds up & doesn't go away until one day you finally decide some of it has to go. It's kind of a cathartic thing to clean out once in awhile. I don't like to get rid of things, I'm kind of a packrat of sorts, I inherited that from my dad. But eventually I will decided there are things I don't need any more & I have been doing that for the last two years. At least if something happens to me there won't be quite as much to have to clean out.
Oh I did catch my kitty this morning in the garage, she was sitting up on a saw in there & came to me nicely this time. She was just in a toot last night, but she must have gotten over it & went back into her crate for now. I'll have to let her out for awhile again this evening.
We finally got all of the stuff loaded up from in the garage that goes to Goodwill, I cornered my DH about it today & got him to help me get it all in the truck. We've got a whole truck load to take up there in a bit, wow that will be a relief to get that out of there. A lot of it was stuff that belonged to my son & he took what he wanted & left me the rest to get rid of. I still have a bit of cleaning up to do in the back of the workshop part yet, but I have gotten a lot cleaned out of there so far. It's amazing what you collect over the years & it just builds up & doesn't go away until one day you finally decide some of it has to go. It's kind of a cathartic thing to clean out once in awhile. I don't like to get rid of things, I'm kind of a packrat of sorts, I inherited that from my dad. But eventually I will decided there are things I don't need any more & I have been doing that for the last two years. At least if something happens to me there won't be quite as much to have to clean out.
Oh I did catch my kitty this morning in the garage, she was sitting up on a saw in there & came to me nicely this time. She was just in a toot last night, but she must have gotten over it & went back into her crate for now. I'll have to let her out for awhile again this evening.