It's been a busy day! I bought pea gravel, moved my bantams out of their pen, cleaned the pen, added the gravel, then moved the turkeys. They loved the new pen! They have so much more room now. Four times the space, and they can stretch their wings.
Then I let my big hens out, and caught 30 chicks from three other pens and put them with the bantams. That took forever. I then combined even more chicks in a different pen with the bantam Cochins.
THEN I put my RIRs in a pen with the mallards, cleaned and refilled the Pekins' pool, and fed, gave everyone water, and made sure everyone was settling in well. Just when I thought I was done, I noticed one of my silkie hens is setting on eggs! (Yay!) so I went and got some eggs destined for the incubator and put 10 total under her. Lol. She wasn't able to hold anymore after. Her setting took up the only nest box though, so I had to make another and put it in their pen, which I'm sure the other silkies will ignore in favor of joining their comrade.
This is all in addition to a full day of school which included a trig exam (yuck), along with feeding and watering all the cows, horses, dogs, cats, and donkies, and also going horseback riding earlier tonight. It's been an 19 hour day for me and I'm ready for bed! Too bad I have to get up early tomorrow. I would say I could sleep in Sunday, but I'm going look at a pony for sale two hours away and have to meet in the morning.
