Aloha everyone!! WoW its been way too long since ive said Hello! ive been just way to busy and chaotic to login in months - goodness since April i think!! well i have been missing you all and hope everyone is well and the chooks are good!!
we moved to kauai from the big island so im not really a bigisland chick anymore, and have moved 2X since we have moved here!
with 14 chickens and 2 kids under 4yrs in tow.
not exactly the plan when we moved over here but
i think we found our spot - rent is fairly cheap
but we have a big yard on a dead end street - about a block from the big blue pacific ocean in the last town as far west as you can go on the island - the only thing past us is SAND, the military base and PoliHale state park - an epic beach that is the western most publicly accessible area in hawaii - sometimes i feel like we are on the edge of the earth out there -
I had to get all new chickens when i got here bc i sold all the others
but the new ones are lovely - although moving with them was not the plan - and now the new coop is taking more time then i would like to build - but its in the works -
I have a pair of black banty cochins and a white banty cochin hen - they are the sweetest of the whole lot - and their little hut - "da banty shanty" is complete except for the run -
the LF birds are split up right now in 4 different breeding pens (that i found buried in grass when we moved here - some years ago there were chickens being raised in my yard - i found a feeder too!) for now until we get the big coop finished - DH has friday off so hopefully
we will make some progress on that - it only has one wall right now - and we will need a roof because they need SHADE! sometimes its like living in the desert over here - just a few miles away is WAIALEALE mountain - one of the wettest spots on earth with 450 inches of rain annually - with a record of 666 inches - and where i live we get 12 inches of rain annually - so its very HOT and DRY. and the hawaiian summer lasts till october - and im not sure it will cool off that much after then anyhow!
so thats my big update!! ill try to be back before November - lol - Aloha for now