Donna - your breeding pens are amazing! I'm so impressed! Sorry about the sting!
Glad everyone is enjoying this great weather. Matlock - glad you got that possum.
I've been enjoying the weather, too. I helped out in two of my granddaughters' classrooms this morning - then had lunch with them.
Came home this afternoon to work on getting chickens in the new coop. I moved my "babies"(5 week olds) into the "grow-out" pen in the new chicken coop on Saturday - and then this afternoon, I moved the "teenagers" (almost 3 months old) into the main pen in the new coop. Sounds simple, but those silly chickens just about wore me out - but I finally got them settled in.
Tomorrow or Thursday I'll move the adults in there. And there they will stay for a week or two until they know without a doubt where their new home is and until they get the pecking order worked out between the teenagers and adults. They've free-ranged together for a couple weeks, and there is plenty of room in the new coop. I'll keep a close eye on them initially, but I think they'll do fine.
We have a couple projects for after all the chickens are situated - making chicken nipple waterers and automatic feeders - and then to get the new run built so the chickens can get out of the coop. My son has a landscaping company - so he's going to make the outside area around the coop & run look purty for me.
Tomorrow I'll get my chocolate orpington hatching eggs - and I'll set them and the other eggs I've been saving since last week. Hopefully the week after Thanksgiving there will be lots of new babies. And then that incubator is going into storage for a long time!
Please say a little prayer for my granddaughter, Lily - tomorrow she has her monthly clinic visit to check blood counts. She's been off treatment for leukemia since February and has been doing great. But these monthly blood checks are nerve-wracking.
hubby said it will quit hurting by tomorrow.
