Snow this morning. Supposed to get only 0.5” total, but have 1.5” at least of the big, fat, fluffy type of snow and it’s still snowing. I think it’s going to rain, though, so it will be gone.
still hunting for sulfur amendment. I could overpay for small bags at one place, but no one has larger bags yet. well, at least I have time to get some and till it in.
We have 3 males: all cockerels at 11 months (1), and 8 months (2). The younger males, particularly one of them, are just way over mating nearly every hen/pullet that they can. Missing feathers, etc. Kid wants to show them at fair, so we need to separate them. As it turns out, the compost bin project (now finished) will house them in separate pens. As we only have 1 pile of compost, they will get the next two bins until fair time in a few months. We will give them a solid top, and will put up a gate front. Each section of the compost piles are 6’x4’ so they will have ample room to move. Also we will add several more perches throughout the run. They already have some, but now every hen/pullet can sit on a perch when they want and not get mated numerous times a day. The 11 month old has been a good cockerel, he stays out of our way so far and reprimands the younger males, but he can’t be everywhere all the time. Hopefully this works, and the feathers grow back in on those missing feathers.