As Jennifer's previous post stated, I did have one chicken fly out of their coop today. I was down with them and one decided to perch up on the top of the coop and when i came near her, she took flight and landed on one of my work benches. Well, needless to say, we decided to clip one of their wings tonight. It was a good thing to because just before we started another one did the exact same thing...
Clipping went well, essentially you have one person grab the chickens and hold on (me) and the other person pull out their wing and clip (Jenn) the first 10-12 feathers, which are called their primary flight feathers. See the photos below:
Now as you can imagine, with 26 of the same breed, it can be difficult to know who you have clipped and who you haven't... so in comes the dot headed part. Jennifer grabbed a sharpie marker and we marked the heads of those that we had completed. Jennifer thought that it would be funny to film me attempting to catch our last one.. check it out!
No pictures here, but just an announcement: one of the chickens successfully flew the coop! Keith will be working on the outside coop this week and has some backup coming on Friday so hopefully we'll have it done soon and have a permanent home for the chickens. Meanwhile, Keith and I will be clipping wings today...should be interesting! I'll try to get a picture!
Farm Mama
Well well, it's been a few weeks since I last posted anything about our farm. We've been extremely busy making mistakes (a dog, which is a long story that I am not going to go into) making plans (for the chicken coop which still needs to be built), reading and writing a paper for seminary, planting a garden, oh yeah and attempting to raise 4 kids and working 40+ hrs a week... Nonetheless, it's no excuse, I should have been posting more pics..
Anyway onto the Chickens!!
The chicks are no longer chicks, they're chickens and based upon their size and the sheer amount of dust that they are creating (we have about a 1/4" of dust on covering everything in the garage YUCK!), they need go outside and as quickly as possible.
The plans are in place for the coop, the wagon which we purchase was delivered about a week ago (photo coming soon) so now it's on to the design and materials list. This aspect should be completed tonight and I hope to order all of the supplies from Menards tomorrow. My hope is that they will be able to deliver it all sometime early next week and that I can start working on the structure and complete the build by the end of the holiday weekend. (optimistic)
I will do my best to take many photos of the build and maybe even a video as well so keep checking back. As for now however I will leave you with a couple of photos of the fully feathered chickens.. Enjoy!!
