Monday, October 22, 2007

Lots of changes to report in our backyard flock!

Well, it's been too long since my last update post! For two of the last four weeks our family was on vacation in Europe, so it was amazing to see the girls when we came back. It seemed they had doubled their size in the two weeks we were gone!

I have finally finished the chicken yard and larger coop for the girls, and just in time! They were rapidly outgrowing the ChickNBarn. I have put up a stretch of chainlink fence to section off part of the yard for the chickens. Their area is approximately 80' x 20'. I used PVC pipe to make arcs to fit over the chicken yard and covered them with deer netting to keep the chickens in and keep them from flying over where the dogs are, or back into the woods. I'm rather pleased with the results, and the chickens are thrilled to have more room to graze in safety!

In other chicken-related news, I have built my own home made incubator and am anxiously awaiting the arrival of silky eggs from Jen, who I met on the Backyard Chickens Forum. Aren't these just the cutest chickens?!?!? After several days of tinkering, I finally have my incubator ready for those eggs. I'm hoping to have them tomorrow or Wednesday. Then it's 3 weeks of anxiety and anticipation - what fun!