So while DH was at the school with Logan (DS#1) for his speech therapy, Korbin(DS#2) and I fed the critters. I fed the dog, let the goats out, then got the feed for the chickens ready. Got into the chicken pen and put their feed in their feeder then looked around for eggs. The 2 RIRs we have are approximately 31-32 weeks old by my calculations. So technically they should be of laying age but we have seen no eggs yet.
When I was done in the chicken lot I was attempting to get out and had a problem. Our chicken lot has a gate lock on it and we had hooked up a string so that we could open it from the inside too. There are also 2 pieces of wood on the outside of the door that were what kept the door closed before we put the latch on it (they could be turned to keep the door shut). Well I pulled the string to open the gate latch and it broke!
So I figured out how to put my hand through the wire enough to get the latch open, then go to push the door and it won't open. Korbin was standing outside the door and has turned one of the wood pieces and keeping the door from opening. I tried to tell him how to turn the wood to allow the door to open, but he kept getting it wrong.
So I'm standing there waiting on DH to get home so that I can be rescued from the chicken coop! About the time DH pulled into the drive way I figured out how to move the pieces of wood so that I could open the door.
After all that I was able to feed the goats.
We are planning to work on the nesting boxes this weekend to make them more appealing. Actually there is a lot we plan to get done this weekend hopefully. We have to get Christmas decorations, and canning supplies took to storage, the dog's lot really needs to be cleaned out as well. Hopefully it all gets done. We have been saying the Christmas decorations are going out to the building for 2 weeks now, yet they are still sitting in the living room taking up space!
