A wind storm came through and ripped up the thin, tissue paper tarp over my chicken run. It's really not something to get upset about because it was inevitable. But yesterday went through and put a new sturdier tarp over top of it and moved the shade cloth around. It's so dark now! I guess I need to start getting better about taking pics...
While I was out there, I saw my roo has a marked preference for my barred rocks and cuckoo marans. Kind of wanted to hatch out some leghorn / fayoumi mixes just to see what the outcome would be, but I haven't seen him approach them at all! I've also decided I'm going to name him Jabari. Mostly because it means brave, and I love an ironic name. He's a huge scaredy cat. My fearless one!
I still need to get some leg bands so I can start telling my leghorns and barred rocks apart enough to properly name them. I have one leghorn I've been calling Floppy because she's got a huge comb that's completely fallen over. It just flops ever so enthusiastically while she does whatever chicken stuff she wants to do.
In my barn I may soon be building a pen for geese to take shelter in at night. I barely use the barn, besides the wood shop in there, so that's like 3/4 of the space going unused. Had a scare because I saw a rat in there! I didn't think I was close enough to civilization to have rats! But a biology prof at uni told me it was a pack rat, so not a threat to my chickens. However, it is a threat to my car engine, as they like to nest in there!
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For DH, not me. I'm a wimp!
do you?
