Six Weeks....

The chickens have been growing and growing and growing and growing! They look like such nice ladies now.

We've been busy building (yes, another...) larger coop for them. I've come to the realization the ChickNBarn will not work for them when they get full size. The new coop is about 7' x 4' and has 12 nesting boxes. It is painted and shingled and ready for move in day, but I'll not move them over until they get a bit bigger.

The county fair was in town this past week and a friend and I took the kids last Saturday. Of course, I thought the biggest treat was seeing the chickens! There were some silver Wyandottes there, including a beautiful rooster. While we can't get over how big our girls are getting, I was still a bit shocked by how LARGE those grown up girls were! Our ladies have a lot of growing left to do if they are going to be giving us yummy eggs in just three months or so.

The kids had a blast - even though we didn't take them on any rides - but I did pay $2 per child to give them the chance to milk a REAL cow. Jacob and Hayden did great, but Katie and Andrew were a bit less impressed, I think! I'll post pictures as soon as I can find where Jacob left my camera after 'borrowing' it to take his famous chicken videos...

This week's project will be to partition off part of the backyard with chain link fencing so the chickens will have more room to graze unmolested by the dogs. Daisy is determined to have chicken doggy treats, so my hopes of having them co-habitating in the same fenced area is going down the drain. When done, they will have the new coop in an area about 80' by 20'. That will free up the current ChickNBarn/Run for future chicken expansion. Those bantys were SOOOO cute at the fair and hatching eggs may be our spring time project. What fun will that be??!!??